Prevalence and determinants of adolescent pregnancy in Africa: a systematic review and meta-analysis

GM Kassa, AO Arowojolu, AA Odukogbe, AW Yalew - Reproductive health, 2018 - Springer
Background Adolescence is the period between 10 and 19 years with peculiar physical,
social, psychological and reproductive health characteristics. Rates of adolescent …

Review on the management of RCCI engines

J Li, W Yang, D Zhou - Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, 2017 - Elsevier
RCCI (reactivity controlled compression ignition) engines are found to be capable of
achieving higher thermal efficiency and ultra-low NOx and PM emissions. The reactivity …

Experimental analysis of ethanol dual-fuel combustion in a heavy-duty diesel engine: An optimisation at low load

VB Pedrozo, I May, M Dalla Nora, A Cairns, H Zhao - Applied Energy, 2016 - Elsevier
Conventional diesel combustion produces harmful exhaust emissions which adversely affect
the air quality if not controlled by in-cylinder measures and exhaust aftertreatment systems …

[HTML][HTML] A numerical study on combustion mode characterization for locally stratified dual-fuel mixtures

S Karimkashi, H Kahila, O Kaario, M Larmi… - Combustion and …, 2020 - Elsevier
Combustion modes in locally stratified dual-fuel (DF) mixtures are numerically investigated
for methanol/n-dodecane blends under engine-relevant pressures. In the studied constant …

[HTML][HTML] Numerical study on tri-fuel combustion: Ignition properties of hydrogen-enriched methane-diesel and methanol-diesel mixtures

S Karimkashi, H Kahila, O Kaario, M Larmi… - International Journal of …, 2020 - Elsevier
Simultaneous and interactive combustion of three fuels with differing reactivities is
investigated by numerical simulations. In the present study, conventional dual-fuel (DF) …

Improvement in high load ethanol-diesel dual-fuel combustion by Miller cycle and charge air cooling

VB Pedrozo, H Zhao - Applied energy, 2018 - Elsevier
At high load, dual-fuel compression ignition engines often rely on exhaust gas recirculation
(EGR) to avoid excessive in-cylinder pressure rise rates caused by the autoignition of the …

Marine ancillary diesel engine emissions reduction using advanced fuels

M Puškár, P Tarbajovský, M Lavčák… - Journal of Marine …, 2022 - mdpi.com
Large transoceanic ships use marine ancillary diesel engines for generating electricity,
which, on the other hand, produce a remarkable amount of harmful emissions during the …

Robust multivariable feedback control of natural gas-diesel RCCI combustion

A Indrajuana, C Bekdemir, X Luo, F Willems - IFAC-PapersOnLine, 2016 - Elsevier
Advanced combustion concepts such as Reactivity Controlled Compression Ignition (RCCI)
demonstrate very high thermal efficiencies combined with ultra low NO x emissions. As …

Study on the closed-loop combustion control for a diesel engine by using a dynamic-target online prediction model

S Ou, Y Yu, J Yang - Control Engineering Practice, 2022 - Elsevier
In-cylinder pressure-based closed-loop combustion control is a critical technology used to
address the issue of cylinder-to-cylinder inhomogeneity throughout the life cycle of a modern …

Model-guided extremum seeking for diesel engine fuel injection optimization

Q Tan, P Divekar, Y Tan, X Chen… - … /ASME Transactions on …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Extremum seeking (ES) is a model-free optimization method that has been successfully
applied to the automotive engine calibration. However, the slow convergence speed of ES …