Simultaneous optimization of smoke and NOX emissions in a stationary diesel engine fuelled with diesel-oxygenate blends using the grey relational analysis in the Taguchi method

Analytical Methods

Volumn 8, Issue 32, 2016, Pages 6222-6230

  Yuvarajan, D ^a   Ravikumar, J ^b   Babu, M Dinesh ^c  

^a VEL TECH RANGARAJAN DR SAGUNTHALA R D INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (India)

^b JEPPIAAR INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (India)

^c Department of Computer Science and Engineering   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BLENDING; DESIGN OF EXPERIMENTS; DIESEL ENGINES; ENGINES; INFORMATION THEORY; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; SMOKE; TAGUCHI METHODS;

GREY RELATIONAL ANALYSES (GRA); GREY RELATIONAL ANALYSIS; GREY-BASED TAGUCHI METHOD; PERFORMANCE CHARACTERISTICS; SIGNAL TO NOISE (S/N) RATIOS; SIMULTANEOUS OPTIMIZATION; STATIONARY DIESEL ENGINES; TAGUCHI PARAMETRIC DESIGNS;

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EID: 84982129806     PISSN: 17599660     EISSN: 17599679     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1039/c6ay01696k     Document Type: Article

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