Friday, January 22, 2016

Calling All Papers

“If you call a tail a leg, how many legs has a dog? Five? No, calling a tail a leg don't make it a leg.” -- Abraham Lincoln (American 16th US President (1861-65). 1809-1865)

Answering a Call for Papers is a good way to boost your career.  Here is one source for finding Calls for Papers …

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the CFP list: an academic call for papers database
https://www.cfplist.com/

EXAMPLE
Ei Compendex, Scopus -6th Int. Conf. on Environment and Industrial Innovation (ICEII 2016)
Event: 03/12/2016 - 03/14/2016
Abstract:  01/25/2016
Categories:
Location:  Singapore
Organization:  APCBEES
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Saturday, January 16, 2016

Why Pay for PTQ?

“Write without pay until somebody offers to pay -- Mark Twain (American Humorist, Writer and Lecturer. 1835-1910)

A question that comes up so often in this new age of free digital content is why one would pay for something that is available at no cost?

Case in point: ePTQ (http://www.eptq.com/). There is no better publication for keeping current with real world applied technology in the field of downstream oil and gas.  Subscriptions to the electronic version of the journal require no more than registering an email account and creating a password.

Still, one is invited to pay for a subscription.

Why?

Here’s why …

“To obtain unlimited access to our online archive of technical articles, please complete and submit the following details. Remember to choose a password for yourself.” (http://www.eptq.com/new_subscribe.aspx).

How often have you remembered reading a particular article about a particular topic which you really want to read again, but you can’t remember the author, the title, the year, or much of anything?

A subscription to the ePTQ Technical Library helps you deal with this problem.

Even better, it is an easy way to search for articles pertaining to topics which have suddenly popped up and for which you need quick access.

Given these advantages, this week’s tip is …

TIP: Subscribe to ePTQs Technical Library.

Thursday, January 7, 2016

Synergy: SciencedDirect + Google® Scholar

“Life is 440 horsepower in a 2-cylinder engine.” -- Henry Miller (American Author and Writer, 1891-1980)

A ScienceDirect search turned up the following item …

Developments in internal combustion engines and implications for combustion science and future transport fuels
G.T. Kalghatgi, Saudi Aramco, Saudi Arabia
Available online 15 November 2014
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1540748914004283

TIP: Combine the search options of multiple search engines to obtain maximum results.

To see what else G.T. Kalghatgi, a much cited author, has written, search Google® Scholar, using the Google® Scholar search form to search for Kalghatgi in the AUTHOR field.

Google® Scholar (author field): Kalghatgi

Search results include the following …

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Partially pre-mixed auto-ignition of gasoline to attain low smoke and low NOx at high load in a compression ignition engine and comparison with a diesel fuel
GT Kalghatgi, P Risberg, HE Angstrom - 2007 - papers.sae.org
Abstract: A Swedish MK1 diesel fuel and a European gasoline of~ 95 RON have been
compared in a single-cylinder CI engine operating at 1200 RPM with an intake pressure of 2
bar abs., intake temperature of 40 C and 25% stoichiometric EGR at different fuelling rates ...
Cited by 236

Advantages of fuels with high resistance to auto-ignition in late-injection, low-temperature, compression ignition combustion
GT Kalghatgi, P Risberg, HE Ångström - 2006 - papers.sae.org
Abstract: Oxides of nitrogen (NOx) and smoke can be simultaneously reduced in
compression ignition engines by getting combustion to occur at low temperatures and by
delaying the heat release till after the fuel and air have been sufficiently mixed. One of the ...
Cited by 226

Blow-out stability of gaseous jet diffusion flames. Part I: In still air
GT Kalghatgi - Combustion Science and Technology, 1981 - Taylor & Francis
Abstract A universal non-dimensional formula that describes the blow-out stability limit of
gaseous jet diffusion flames in still air has been found experimentally. Its validity has been
established over a wide range of parameters that affect the blow-out limit. Its extrapolation ...
Cited by 200

Auto-ignition quality of practical fuels and implications for fuel requirements of future SI and HCCI engines
GT Kalghatgi - 2005 - papers.sae.org
Abstract: The auto-ignition or anti-knock quality of a practical fuel is defined by the Octane
Index, OI=(1-K) RON+ KMON where RON and MON are the Research and Motor Octane
numbers and K is a constant depending only on the pressure and temperature variation in ...
Cited by 210

HCCI experiments with toluene reference fuels modeled by a semidetailed chemical kinetic model
JCG Andrae, T Brinck, GT Kalghatgi - Combustion and Flame, 2008 - Elsevier
A semidetailed mechanism (137 species and 633 reactions) and new experiments in a
homogeneous charge compression ignition (HCCI) engine on the autoignition of toluene
reference fuels are presented. Skeletal mechanisms for isooctane and n-heptane were ...
Cited by 137