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A FEASIBILITY STUDY ON THE DEVELOPMENT OF A STOICHIOMETRIC DIESEL ENGINE IS PROPOSED USING THE THERMAL IGNITION COMBUSTION CHAMBER. THE ADIABATIC DIESEL ENGINE WITHOUT WATER OR AIR COOLING ALLOWS THE THERMAL IGNITION CHAMBER TO STORE HEAT DURING COMBUSTION AND RELEASE THE ENERGY FOR IGNITION IN THE FOLLOWING CYCLE. INJECTION OF FUEL ON TO 1800-2000 DEG. F WALL TEMPERATURE WILL PREPARE THE FUEL FOR ...

ADIABATICS, INC. IS PLEASED TO PROPOSE A RESEARCH PROGRAM TO DESIGN AN OPTIMUM PISTON FOR A HIGH TEMPERATURE MILITARY ENGINE. ADIABATICS, INC. HAS BEEN CONDUCTING A PROGRAM FOR TACOM TITLED "DEVELOPMENT OF TRIBOLOGICAL SYSTEMS AND ADVANCED HIGH TEMPERATURE IN-CYLINDER COMPONENTS FOR ADVANCED HIGH TEMPERATURE DIESEL ENGINES" FOR THE PAST FIVE YEARS. BASED ON OUR EXPERIENCE WITH DESIGNING COMPONENTS ...

Two major objectives of the U.S. Army is to increase power density and reduce heat rejection. Reducing airflow requirements of the deisel engine will contribute toward both of these objectives. Reducing air-fuel ratio requirements is one of the major cost effective approaches available for significantly increasing power output and reducing heat rejection in today's power output diesel engine. Po ...

The primary roadblock to the success of the high output Low Heat Rejection (LHR) diesel engine requiring little or no water cooling is the lack of effective liquid lubrication where target top ring reversal (TRR) temperatures between the cylinder liner and piston ring approach 1000 degrees F. Adiabatics, Inc. has developed a Thermo-sealed plasma sprayed Fe2O3 tribological coating which provides e ...

The basic scientific understanding acquired in development of electrokinetic remediation technology displays its potential in insitu removal of heavy metals, radionuclides and some organic chemicals from soils. One specific problem associated with the current processing technique is precipitation of the metal close to the cathode as a metal hydroxide. When this precipitate forms a lowly conductive ...

A meaningful computer simulation effort in the area of high-power machinery systems could have a major impact upon the cost of developing these systems. It is proposed, in this Phase 1, to develop modular, detailed and reduced-order digital computer simulations for an example high-power machinery system. Implementing these types of simulations using standard techniques may not be sufficiently inno ...

THE OBJECTIVE OF PHAE I IS TO DETERMINE BY AN ANALYTICAL STUDY THE OPTIMUM DESIGN APPROACH, OR APPROACHES, FOR SOLID-STATE ELECTRICAL FAULT CURRENT LIMITERS FOR THE CURRENT RANGE OF 15 TO 5000 AMPERES. THE ANALYTICAL TRADEOFF STUDY WILL INCLUDE THE FOLLOWING TASKS: 1) DEFINITION OF CURRENT LIMITER REQUIREMENTS, 2) DEFINITION OF TRADEOFF ANALYSIS CRITERIA, 3) DEFINITION OF CANDIDATE CURRENT LIMITER ...

THIS PROPOSAL IS TO DEMONSTRATE FEASIBILITY OF INSERTION OF SIALIC ACID MOLECULES INTO MEMBRANES OF LIPOSOMES CARRYING HEMOGLOBIN. THE LIPOSOMES MAY BE PROVIDED BY NAVY CONTRACTORS OR PREPARED BY OFFEROR ACCORDING TO CONTRACTORS' SPECIFICATIONS FOR FOMULATION. THE ADDED SIALIC ACID WILL PROTECT THE LIPOSOMES FROM CLEARANCE BY THE RETICULOENDOTHELIAL SYSTEM AND THEREBY INCREASE THE RESIDENCY TIME O ...