Journal Articles (Mechanical Engineering)

2015-01-01

Patel, Madhumita, Zhang, Xiaolei, Kumar, Amit

Bioenergy derived from biomass provides a promising energy alternative and can reduce the greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions generated from fossil fuels. Biomass-based thermochemical conversion technologies have been acknowledged as apt options to convert bioresources into bioenergy; this bioenergy...

2009-01-01

Sarkar, Susanjib, Kumar, Amit

Biohydrogen, Forest biomass, Gasification, Optimal plant size, Production cost, Techno-economic assessment Western Canada is the largest hydrocarbon base in Canada. Oil sands, one of its key crude oil resources, are used for production of bitumen, which is further processed to produce crude oil....

2016-01-01

Shahrukh, Hassan, Oyedun, Adetoyese Olajire, Kumar, Amit, Ghiasi, Bahman, Kumar, Linoj, Sokhansanj, Shahab

Minimum production cost and optimum plant size are determined for pellet plants for three types of biomass feedstock – forest residue, agricultural residue, and energy crops. The life cycle cost from harvesting to the delivery of the pellets to the co-firing facility is evaluated. The cost varies...

2017-01-01

Thaker, Spandan, Oni, Abayomi Olufemi, Kumar, Amit

In this paper, a data-intensive cost model was developed for sensible heat, latent heat and thermochemical storage systems. In order to evaluate the economic feasibility of storage systems, five scenarios were developed depending on the method of storage. The five scenarios considered were...

2020-01-01

Tu Lan, Jing Liu, Hongbo Zeng, Tian Tang

2012

Fahimi, Farbod, Dawson, Michael R., Carey, Jason P.

The objective of above-elbow myoelectric prostheses is to reestablish the functionality of missing limbs and increase the quality of life of amputees. By using electromyography (EMG) electrodes attached to the surface of the skin, amputees are able to control motors in myoelectric prostheses by...

2017-01-01

Kapila, Sahil, Oni, Abayomi Olufemi, Kumar, Amit

The development of a cost structure for energy storage systems (ESS) has received limited attention. In this study, we developed data-intensive techno-economic models to assess the economic feasibility of ESS. The ESS here includes pump hydro storage (PHS) and compressed air energy storage...

2014

Wong, Justin W., Carey, Jason P., Romanyk, Dan L., Heo, Giseon, Toogood, Roger W., Major, Paul W.

Orthodontic literature has shown all ligation methods to behave similarly in the clinical situation; however, the reasoning behind this still requires further investigation. A novel frictional device able to measure forces at the level of the bracket along with a custom perturbation device was...

2018-10-23

Sahu, C. and M.R. Flynn

We report upon experimental and analytical investigations of filling box flows in non-uniform porous media characterized by a sudden change in permeability. The porous medium consists of two layers separated by a horizontal permeability jump and is initially filled with light ambient fluid. A...

2013

Melenka, Garrett W., Leung, Cheequn K., Nobes, David S., Carey, Jason P.

The objective of this paper is to assess changes in braid radius and braid angle of braided composite tubes under tensile loading using stereomicroscope digital image correlation (DIC) based optical measurement techniques. Using this approach, displacement fields were calculated and three...