The efficiency and output power of gas turbine power plants are heavily affected by ambient air temperature. To compensate this defect, some cooling technologies and technics are applied. In this paper, the effect of applying an absorption chiller by recovering waste heat from gas turbine flue gas has been investigated. For this purpose, the behavior of a GE-F5 gas turbine was modeled by coding...

This paper deals with the exergy analysis of two experimental prototypes consisting indirect evaporative cooling systems different constructive characteristics. Both have been designed and manufactured in Thermal Engineering Laboratory University Valladolid. They are made polycarbonate hollow panels cross section connected into a heat recovery cycle. Each prototype has tested at 4 levels outdoo...

For the high-power low-speed diesel engine’s performance and reliability evaluation, this paper studies the engine’s running-in norms, presents the Test Scheme about the combustion process, the Inlet swirl control, the cooling system control, and the distribution and emission. The whole engine’s test methods and systems are established. By using the combined method of the test platform research...

This study aims to optimize extraction and drying conditions of fig syrup. Drying was done in a pilot scale two-fluid nozzle spray dryer. A total of 27 experiments were conducted with varying inlet air temperatures, air flow rates, and also a maltodextrin (MD)- low methoxyl pectin (LMP) ratios. While feed rate, feed temperature, and compressed air flow rate of the atomizer were kept constant. T...

Information technology (IT) has brought significant changes in people’s lives. As an important part of the IT industry, data centres (DCs) have been rapidly growing in both the number and size over the past 40 years. Around 30% to 40% of electricity consumption in DCs is used for space cooling, thus leading to very inefficient DC operation. To identify ways to reduce the energy consumption for ...

A rise in inlet air temperature may lower the rate of heat dissipation from air cooled computing servers. This introduces a thermal stress to these servers. As a result, the poorly cooled active servers will start conducting heat to the neighboring servers and giving rise to hotspot regions of thermal stress, inside the data center. As a result, the physical hardware of these servers may fail, ...

In cooling water systems, towers play a critical role in removing heat from the water. Cooling systems are commonly used industry to dispose waste heat. An upward spray was especially designed and investigated this work. The effect of two nanofluids (Al2O3/ water, black carbon /water) on velocity temperature distributions along reverse tower at various concentrations (0.02, 0.08, 0.1, 0.15, 0.2...

Although heated humidifiers are considered the most efficient humidification devices for mechanical ventilation, endotracheal tube occlusion caused by dry secretions has been reported with heated-wire humidifiers. We tested the hypothesis that inlet chamber temperature, influenced by ambient air and ventilator output temperatures, may affect humidifier performance, as assessed by hygrometry. Hy...