The investigation of a capillary-based heat exchanger is presented for potential integration with thermoelectric devices and thermal energy harvesting. The exchanger is a microfabricated device, designed to promote phase change of low boiling-point working fluids and enhance heat transfer from thermoelectric de-

Flash tank evaporation combined with a condensing heat exchanger can be used when heat exchange is required between two streams and where at least one of these streams is difficult to handle (in terms of solid particles content, viscosity, pH, consistency etc.). To increase the efficiency of heat exchange, a cascade of these units in series can be used. Heat transfer relationships in such a cas...

In the present era where energy demands are growing everyday it has become very important to capture every available energy from the hot source and utilize it for the process with minimum wastage. With this view, the combined serial two shell pass shell and tube heat exchanger (CSTSP) concept had been put forward and simulated using Fluent. Though the novel model of the heat exchanger has a hig...

background: new technologies using hazardous materials usually have certain risks. it is more serious when the technology is supposed to be applied in a large scale and become widely used by many people. the objective of this paper was to evaluate the risk of vapor cloud explosion in a hydrogen production process. methods: potential hazards were identified using the conventional hazard identifi...

The effect of inlet humidity conditions and inclination angle on the air side thermal hydraulic performance of a brazed aluminum heat exchanger has been investigated experimentally. The crossflow heat exchanger had flat tubes and folded fins with fin and louver pitch of 2.1 mm and 1.4 mm, respectively. The glycol temperature was held nearly isothermal at 1C, while humidity of the 12C inlet air ...

No portion of this publication may be altered in any form without prior written consent from the U.S. Department of Energy and the authoring national laboratory. both residential and commercial/institutional buildings. However, GHPs often have higher first costs than conventional systems making short-term economics unattractive. This disadvantage can be magnified in commercial buildings, many o...

Joule-Thomson cooling systems are used in refrigeration processes such as cryogenic gas liquefaction. Although extensive studies have been carried out by researchers, most of them include cryogenic heat exchangers and their associated fields. In the current study, an attempt was made to indicate the effect of using inappropriate operational conditions in a cryogenic Joule-Thomson cooling system...

The paper deals with the block-oriented approach in modelling of a solar domestic hot water system. Due to the linking possibility to other technological processes (greenhouse, dryer, etc.) the Matlab+Simulink software was decided to use. The entire model consists of the sub-system models as collector, heat exchanger and storage tank. The governing heat and mass transfer equations are given alo...

This paper is concerned with the observability problem of a parallelow twouid heat exchanger equation with di usion term. First, the case where two uid temperatures are measured at the outlet is considered. It is shown that the observed system with the measurements becomes observable on any interval of time through a concrete series expression of the solution. Next, the two cases where each one...