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- Emami, Mohsen D., et al.
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Effect of operational parameters on combustion and emissions in an industrial gas turbine combustor
- 2019
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Ingår i: Journal of Energy Resources Technology. - : ASME International. - 0195-0738 .- 1528-8994. ; 141:1
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Enhancing a combustion system requires increased combustion efficiency, fuel savings, and reduction of combustion emissions. In this paper, the combustion of CH4 in the combustor of an industrial gas turbine is studied and NO and CO formation/emission is simulated numerically. The objective of the current work is to investigate the influence of combustive parameters and varying the percentage of distributed air flow rate via burning, recirculation, and dilution zone on the reactive flow characteristics, NOx and CO emissions. The governing equations of mass, momentum, energy, turbulence quantities Renormalized group (RNG) (k-ε), mixture fraction and its variance are solved by the finite volume method. The formation and emission of NOx is numerically simulated in a postprocessing fashion, due to the low concentration of the pollutants as compared to the main combustion species. The present work focuses on different physical mechanisms of NOx formation. The thermal-NOx and prompt-NOx mechanism are considered for modeling the NOx source term in the transport equation. Results show that in a gaseous-fueled combustor, the thermal NOx is the dominant mechanism for NOx formation. Particularly, the simulation provides more insight into the correlation between the maximum combustor temperature, exhaust average temperatures, and the thermal NO concentration. Results indicate that the exhaust temperature and NOx concentration decrease while the excess air factor increases. Moreover, results demonstrate that as the combustion air temperature increases, the combustor temperature increases and the thermal NOx concentration increases dramatically. Furthermore, results demonstrate that the NO concentration at the combustor exit is at maximum value in a swirl angle of 55 deg and a gradual rise in the NOx concentration is detected as the combustion fuel temperature increases. In addition, results demonstrate that the air distribution of the first case at laboratory conditions is optimal where the mass fractions of NO and CO are minimum.
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- Parsyan, A, et al.
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The helicase protein DHX29 promotes translation initiation, cell proliferation, and tumorigenesis
- 2009
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Ingår i: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. - : Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. - 1091-6490. ; 106:52, s. 22217-22222
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Translational control plays an important role in cell growth and tumorigenesis. Cap-dependent translation initiation of mammalian mRNAs with structured 5′UTRs requires the DExH-box protein, DHX29, in vitro. Here we show that DHX29 is important for translation in vivo. Down-regulation of DHX29 leads to impaired translation, resulting in disassembly of polysomes and accumulation of mRNA-free 80S monomers. DHX29 depletion also impedes cancer cell growth in culture and in xenografts. Thus, DHX29 is a bona fide translation initiation factor that potentially can be exploited as a target to inhibit cancer cell growth.
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