A full scale snow melting system with heat pipe technology is built in this work, which avoids the negative effects on concrete structure and environment caused by traditional deicing chemicals. The snow melting, ice-freezing performance and temperature distribution characteristics of heat pipe concrete runway were discussed by the outdoor experiments. The results show that the temperature of t...

Heat pipe is a device that transports heat with minimal temperature drop using the latent heat of fluid in a closed container. In vertical type named as thermosyphon (Wickless), capillary action is replaced by the gravitational force, this condenser is placed above evaporator. In this paper, to investigate the effect of inlet air temperature and the air mass flow rate was studied. The temperatu...

Total thermal resistance of ground heat exchanger (GHE) is comprised of that of the soil and inside the borehole. The thermal resistance of soil can be calculated using the linear source theory and cylindrical source theory, while that inside the borehole is more complicated due to the integrated resistance of fluid convection, and the conduction through pipe and grout. Present study evaluates ...

The deterioration of the performance of a cross flow heat exchanger with condensation due to the longitudinal conduction was investigated. For a relatively small change of wall temperature along the flow directions which was shown to be common in many applications, the energy equations were solved numerically. An iterative method was used to solve the resulting equations of the finite differenc...

the present study investigated the effect of distilled-water/ silver nanofluid on heat transfer in a closed cooling system of one of the electrical energy generation units at isfahan power plant. the difference between this study and previous researches refers to silver properties which have a high thermal conductivity and is non-toxic, hydrophilic and eco-friendly. distilled water/ silver nano...

One of the key stages in designing a heat exchanger is optimization process. The enhancement in thermal performance results in a rise in pressure drop and total annual costs. So, finding optimal dimensions of heat exchanger is a key stage in designing process. In this paper, optimization has been done based on entropy generation minimization, where Cuckoo Algorithm aided to reach better results...

This work presents an experimental investigation of the thermal performance of a flatplate heat pipe during startup and shutdown operations. Using the analytical model developed in a previously study, analytical and experimental results on the effect of input power and cooling heat transfer coefficient on the thermal performance of the heat pipe are presented and discussed. The results indicate...

-In this paper, an intelligent controller is applied to electrically heated micro heat exchanger. First, the dynamics of the micro heat exchanger is identified using Locally Linear Model Tree (LOLIMOT) algorithm. Then, an intelligent controller based on brain emotional learning algorithm is applied to the identified model. Modeling emotions has attracted much attention in recent years, both in ...

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...