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    Material selection and assembly method of battery pack for compact electric vehicle
    (2018-02-07)
    Lewchalermwong, N.
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    Masomtob, M.
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    Lailuck, V.
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    Battery packs become the key component in electric vehicles (EVs). The main costs of which are battery cells and assembling processes. The battery cell is indeed priced from battery manufacturers while the assembling cost is dependent on battery pack designs. Battery pack designers need overall cost as cheap as possible, but it still requires high performance and more safety. Material selection and assembly method as well as component design are very important to determine the cost-effectiveness of battery modules and battery packs. Therefore, this work presents Decision Matrix, which can aid in the decision-making process of component materials and assembly methods for a battery module design and a battery pack design. The aim of this study is to take the advantage of incorporating Architecture Analysis method into decision matrix methods by capturing best practices for conducting design architecture analysis in full account of key design components critical to ensure efficient and effective development of the designs. The methodology also considers the impacts of choice-alternatives along multiple dimensions. Various alternatives for materials and assembly techniques of battery pack are evaluated, and some sample costs are presented. Due to many components in the battery pack, only seven components which are positive busbar and Z busbar are represented in this paper for using decision matrix methods.
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    Impact of Alcohol-Gasoline Fuel Blends in Long-Tailed Boat Application
    (2015-11-17)
    Tumaiam, Kittichart
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    Kujirapan, Kraiwut
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    Nuthong, Chaiwat
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    Phatrapornnant, Teera
    Nowadays, human realize to the environment pollution cause from old engine and use the engine misapply. These engines will cause the problem such as air pollution and cannot use the engine to work at the maximum efficiency and fuel consumption. The new of control technologies can solve problems from misuse engine by an electronic control unit work with many sensors. Optimization of electronic control unit (ECU) makes an engine to work in maximum efficiency and decrease the environment pollution. In this research, Port-fuel injection spark ignition engine (PFI Engine) fuelled with gasoline is use as the boat engine. To use car engine as boat engine, the control system has to be modify and tune up for proper condition. For the method, the parameters that used to control and optimization are the boat's running condition to tune up injection timing, injection duration, ignition timing, and also the engine special function. And this paper aim to investigate and improve performance, efficiency and emission of misapply engine. After that we plan to do research on each part of the system that makes the engine run with alternative energy such as gasohol (E10 to E85) to reduce the emission of greenhouse gas and environment pollution.
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    Fuel Characterization of Waste Plastic Diesel from Mixed Waste Plastic Catalytic Pyrolysis
    (2023-01-01)
    Aung, Zin Thu
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    Kosaka, Hidenori
    Plastics are an essential part of the human life and the global economy. However, the use of plastics has been associated with significant environmental problems due to their accumulation in landfills, as plastic waste does not degrade or degrades at very low pace. Nowadays, fast pyrolysis of waste plastic into valuable fuels is main platform method in minimizing not only the waste disposal but also could be used as an alternative fuel for internal combustion engines. The purpose of this study was to identify, quantify and compare the composition of waste plastic diesel (WPD) with the commercial diesel (CD) of Thailand. Simulated distillation (GC-FID) and n-d-M method were used to find the composition of both fuels. Results indicated that the content of naphtha, kerosene, diesel, and long residue were determined quantitatively and also identified the paraffin, naphthenes, and aromatic contents for both fuels. Naphtha and heavy oil contents of WPD were 9.2 and 8.9wt% higher than that of CD but kerosene and diesel contents were 0.7and 17.4wt% less than that of commercial diesel. After that, paraffin, naphthenes and aromatic contents of WPD from PNA analysis were 80.42, 14.54 and 5.04wt% and these hydrocarbon contents of CD were 60.61, 25.91 and 13.48wt% respectively. By knowing them, the appropriate method can be determined for fuel upgrading and interpret correctly of combustion and emissions results.
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    Impact of Engine Oil Additives on Nanostructure and Oxidation Kinetics of Diesel and Synthetic Biodiesel Particulate Matters using Electron Microscopy
    (2019-12-19) ; ; ;
    Chollacoop, Nuwong
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    Hanamura, Katsunori
    Physicochemical characteristics of particulate matters which are influenced by engine oil additives from engine combustion of diesel and synthetic biodiesel: Hydrotreated vegetable oil (HVO) were successfully investigated using electron microscopy, electron dispersive X-ray spectroscopy and thermogravimetric analysis. The agglomerate structure of diesel PM, HVO PM and diesel blending lubricant PM are similar in micro-scales. However, nanostructure of soot is a spherical shape composed of curve line crystallites while the metal oxide ash nanostructure is composed of parallel straight line hatch patterns. The oxidation kinetics of fuel blending lubricant PMs are higher than neat fuel PMs due to catalytic effect of incombustible metal additives from engine lubricating oil.
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    Physical characterization of biodiesel particle emission by electron microscopy
    (2013-01-01) ;
    Songsaengchan, Yutthana
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    Laosuwan, Songtam
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    Chollacoop, Nuwong
    Nanostructures of diesel and biodiesel engine particulate matters (PMs) were investigated by using a Transmission Electron Microscopy (TEM). The average single particle sizes of biodiesel and diesel PMs are approximately 30-40 nm and 50-60 nm, respectively. Image processing process was used to estimate each carbon platelet length by using TEM image. The average carbon platelet length of biodiesel and diesel PMs are in the range of 0.1-7.0 nm. Moreover, carbon atoms per cubic volume of PMs are approximately 500-900. The result shows that engine load and fuel property are strongly impact on the size of single particle and carbon atom density of particle. This is one of interesting behaviors need to be investigated for better understanding. The results of this research would be used as basic information for design and develop removing process of PM emitted from engine combustion which using in diesel and biodiesel fuels. © Copyright @2013 SAE Japan and Copyright @ 2013 SAE International.
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    Influence of Pulse Discharging on Lithium-Ion Battery
    (2023-01-01)
    Naing, Hsu Myat
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    Yamakita, Masaki
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    Tanateerapong, Pera
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    Kerdsup, Burin
    This paper aims to investigate the impact of switching frequencies in pulse discharging of batteries by testing with Lithium-ion cells. Applying lithium-ion batteries in high power applications is needed to be managed according to the demand of load power and current profile. The pulse current discharging technique with different frequencies is expected to improve the charging/ discharging capacity and energy of lithium-ion batteries. In this paper, lithium-ion cells were tested with pulse current at various switching frequencies with 75% duty cycle during discharging. The results of pulse discharging with different switching frequencies were compared with constant current discharging method by evaluating capacity and energy. From this research, the results indicated that pulse discharging at low frequencies generated high discharging capacity than constant current discharging.
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    Ethanol impacts on fuel supply parts of gasoline engines in Thailand
    (2009-01-01) ;
    Buanak, Kalong
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    In Thailand, gasoline mixtures with 85% ethanol by volume so called E85 recently available with guaranteed lower selling price are expected to replace the former types of gasoline. The looming change leads to certain concerns on material compatibility with E85 for automobiles deliberately not designed to run by the blends. Fluid immersion tests complying with SAE and ASTM standard were performed to the parts. The metallic and polymeric parts were submersed in test fluids inside an oven in which temperature had been maintained at 55 ± 2°C for at least 2000 hours. Weekly collected data, i.e. physical appearances and physical properties, were statistical evaluated for parts' compatibility to E85 by comparing the data to those collected derived from the other parts submersed in E10 test fluid. A significant level of differences indicates incompatibility of a part with an assumption that the part is already compatible with E10. Copyright © 2009 SAE International.
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    Side effect of production of biodiesel from jatropha seed oil: A case study in Thailand
    (2014-01-01)
    Rodjanakid, Kanokon
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    Srinorakutara, Teerapatr
    The objective of this research is to produce biodiesel from the jatropha seed oil and compare its lubricating properties to other types of fuel used in a compression ignition engine. The optimum mixture is also investigated. The produced biodiesel is tested to determine its identity and purity. The result showed that its purity is 98.38%, which is higher than 96.5% as specified by the standard of Department of Energy Business. The resulting biodiesel is tested in a compression ignition engine, including as an additive to stabilize the ethanol in diesel oil. The four types of fuel blends are; diesohol with a proportion of diesel: ethanol: biodiesel D95E5B5 by volume, pure biodiesel from jatropha seed oil, biodiesel with low proportion D95B5, and a standard diesel oil. The test results of physical properties of the four types of fuel show that all meets the standard of high speed diesel oil, except the flash point property of the diesohol. To compare the lubricating properties, each type of the fuel has been tested with the High Frequency Reciprocating Rig (HFRR) according the CEC-F-06-A-96 standard. The results showed that the pure biodiesel from jatropha seed oil, biodiesel D95B5 and diesohol D95E5B5 have the wear scar 169 μm, 204 μm, and 205 μm respectively. The wear scar of each type of the studied fuels is below the allowable standard wear scar 460μm.
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    Characterization of Biodiesel Particle Emission in Trapping and Regeneration Processes on Cordierite Diesel Particulate Filter
    (2015-11-17)
    Siricholathum, Komkla
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    Hanamura, Katsunori
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    Chollacoop, Nuwong
    As well-known, the diesel engine has the highest thermal efficiency at the same load as compared with internal combustion engine but its disadvantage is particulate matter (PM) emitted to the atmosphere. The studies of this paper were divided into two parts. The first part studied the quantity of PM from the both diesel and biodiesel fuels at 80% load (2400 rpm) by the trapping process on diesel particulate filter (DPF) used in a partial flow dilution tunnel. The second part studied the regeneration process of PM under the flow rate of oxygen and nitrogen gas of 13.5 L/min with 10%, 15%, and 21% of oxygen gas. The result showed that amount of PM from biodiesel fuel was lower around two times than PM from diesel fuel. The duration in regeneration process of biodiesel's PM was shorter than diesel while increasing of oxygen percentage can reduce regeneration time.
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    Influence of Metal Oxide Ashes on Soot Oxidation Kinetics and Nanostructure using Electron Microscopy and Thermogravimetric Analysis
    (2019-04-09) ; ;
    Saenkhumvong, E.
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    Phairote, W.
    According to increasingly stringent regulations on particulate emission from automotive vehicles, diesel engine must be equipped with Diesel Particulate Filter (DPF) to trap the Particulate Matter (PM) which are very harmful to human health. Diesel particulate matters are composed primarily of unburned hydrocarbon (soot) and metal oxide ashes as solid fraction. DPF can trap PM with higher filtration efficiency and the process which can burn the soot into carbon dioxide is called regeneration process. Although regeneration process can burn the soot effectively, incombustible ashes will be remained inside the DPF channel causing engine back pressure. These metal oxide ashes are mainly derived from lubricant additives, engine wear and trace metals from diesel fuel. In this article, different nanostructures of diesel soot and metal oxide ash derived by diesel blending lube oil condition were briefly compared using Transmission Electron Microscopy (TEM) image analysis. Electron Dispersive X-ray Spectroscopy (EDS) analysis was introduced to investigate the chemical composition of particulate matters. Thermogravimetric Analysis (TGA) was also conducted to compare the oxidation kinetics of pure diesel soot and the influence of metal oxide ash on soot oxidation kinetics. Contamination of metal oxide ashes promoted soot oxidation rate due to the presence of metallic additives from lube oil acting as a catalyst on soot oxidation kinetics.