A new lightweight gas-particle mixture generator for fire-extinguishing purposes is designed such as to keep the generator and aerosol temperatures low by including a Phase Change Materials (PCM) component. The new generator performances have been studied experimentally and compared to the corresponding performances of a traditional design. The temperature evolution profiles of this gas-particl...

A simulation model for the CO2 heat pump water heater was developed and validated in this study. Component models of the gas cooler, evaporator, compressor, and expansion valve were constructed with careful consideration for the heat transfer performances. To validate the simulation model, experiments were carried out using an actual CO2 heat pump water heater (water heating capacity: 22.3 kW; ...

Airborne measurements of hydrogen peroxide and its partitioning between the aqueous and gas phases were conducted uring studies of wintertime orographic clouds at temperatures ranging between -9 ø and -24øC. A subset of the derived values of the H202 Henry's law coefficient, based on measurement of gas-phase H202 and the physical properties of the cloud, were found to agree with laboratory meas...

In this study, the effect of the levels of hydrogen addition to methane-air premixed flame in a micro-stepped reactor has been studied numerically. In addition, the effects of mixture velocity and walls’ thermal conductivity (Kw) on the flame’s location, temperature, and species distribution in a micro reactor were calculated using a 2D numerical laminar steady code. The results ...

In this study a heat exchanger is designed for cooling exhaust gas and an experiment is carried out to investigate the effect of Exhaust Gas Recirculation (EGR) temperature on destruction of the fuel’s availability due to combustion processes in IDI diesel engine cylinder. To serve this aim an exergy analysis is conducted on the engine cylinder which provides all the availability terms by which...

This paper deals with the hydrodynamic and thermal analysis of a new type of porous heat exchanger (PHE). This system operates based on energy conversion between gas enthalpy and thermal radiation. The proposed PHE has one high temperature (HT) and two heat recovery (HR1 and HR2) sections. In HT section, the enthalpy of flowing high temperature gas flow that is converted to thermal radiation em...

This paper reported an experimental research of steady-state heat transfer behaviour of a gas flowing through a fixed bed under the different operating conditions. Studies had been carried out in a fixed-bed packed methanol synthesis catalyst percolated by air at appropriate flow rate. Both radial and axial direction temperature distribution had been investigated under the different operating c...

The pressure drop across metallic porous medium is a critical element in cooling aerospace engineering application. This paper presents a metamodel based on artificial neural networks (ANN) for estimating the pressure drop through metallic porous media. The ANN is developed using experimental data obtained from an experimental bench, developed at PRISME laboratory, which ensure the monitoring o...