Precise prediction of particulate movement is needed to provide a better understanding of how airborne disease organisms move within ventilated facilities. Bacteria often adhere to larger airborne particulates, which will modify their movement behavior in ventilated rooms and may provide an environment to allow them to remain virulent longer. An empty chamber (206 H x 203 W x 386 cm L) with a c...

The increased circuit density on today’s computer chips is reaching the heat dissipation limits for air-cooling technology. The direct liquid cooling of chips is being considered as a viable alternative. This paper reviews liquid cooling with internal flow channels in terms of technological options and challenges. The possibilities presented herein indicate a fourto ten-fold increase in heat fl...

A solar chimney is designed and tested to pump outside air through an underground cooling tube during summer for building cooling. Both theoretical analysis and experimental results show that the solar chimney can be used to power the underground cooling system during daytime without use of electricity. This paper presents the theoretical design principals of the solar chimney, detailed experim...

Aero gas turbine engines have been using mainly film cooling and convection cooling techniques. For operating at high gas temperature amongst different cooling options the transpiration cooling technique has emerged as the most promising technique to improve the gas turbine cycle performance by allowing higher turbine inlet temperatures. This paper investigates the advantages of transpiration c...

During hot seasons the inlet temperature of Nitrogen increases, as a result compressor consumes more power for compressing a specific mass ratio of fluid and consequently total energy consumption of the compressor increases as well. In this research, a three stage centrifugal compressor with intercooler was modeled thermodynamically in order to decreases the energy consumption of the compressor...

In this study, effect of adding in SiO2 nanoparticle in base fluid (water) in car radiator is investigated experimentally. Radiators are compact heat exchangers that optimized and evaluated by considering different working conditions. Car\'s cooling system, plays an important role in vehicle\'s performance, consists of two main parts, known as radiator and fan. Radiators are compact heat exchan...

In the present study, thermo-economic analysis of a combined solid oxide fuel cell (SOFC) with a gas turbine, a generator-absorber heat exchanger (GAX) and heating process heat exchanger for heating, cooling and power production as a tri-generation system is conducted. Also, an external steam reformer is applied to convert methanol as oxygenated fuel to hydrogen for the electrochemical process ...

The aim of the present work was to study the effect of various process parameters on an aqueous-based film coating process of tablets performed in a side-vented perforated pan-coating apparatus. Results of preliminary trials indicate that spray rate, inlet air temperature, percentage solid content, atomizing air pressure and speed of rotation affected characteristics of coating. A 3 full factor...

Spray drying is a common drying technique in food industries to convert liquid to powder form. A good understanding on the dynamic behavior of the process is important to ensure proper control. The aim of this study is to develop empirical models for spray drying of whole milk powder and orange juice powder. A preliminary study on the effect of several inputs such as inlet air temperature, feed...

A printed circuit heat exchanger (PCHE) is utilized to cool the compressor inlet air increase compression efficiency in a liquid energy storage and natural gas (LNG) coupled system, which can offer large-scale with significantly improved exergy round-trip efficiency. In this work, effect of pressure air, incline angle, hydraulic diameter on performance compressed air–water PCHE semicircle cross...