Axial flows over cylinders are frequently encountered in practice, e.g. in tubular heat exchangers and reactors. Using the Integral method, closed-form relationships are developed for heat transfer coefficients or Nusselt number inside a fluid flowing axially between a rectangular/square array of parallel cylinders with unequal temperatures. The model considers the temperature variations of cyl...

Vapor-venting microchannel heat exchangers are promising because they address the problems of high pressure drop, flow instability, and local dryout that are common in conventional two-phase microchannel heat sinks. We present a 3D numerical simulation of the vapor-venting process in a rectangular microchannel bounded on one side by a hydrophobic porous membrane for phase-separation. The simula...

Modern control design of large industrial plants relies strongly on modelling, while experimentation on the real system is extremely limited. The usable model should be intuitive and easily reusable to model potential plant adaptations or similar plants. In this paper some aspects of the modelling a recuperator plant consisting of four heat exchangers are presented. With the object-oriented mod...

The environmental impacts of 2 alternative UK broiler production systems that aim to improve bird welfare (a lower stocking density indoor system and the same system combined with heat exchangers for ventilation air) were compared with the baseline standard indoor system of broiler production. Furthermore, the environmental impacts of egg production in the conventional battery cage system (bann...

Heat resistance of microorganisms can be affected by different influencing factors. Although, the effect of heating rates has been scarcely explored by the scientific community, recent researches have unraveled its important effect on the thermal resistance of different species of vegetative bacteria. Typically heating rates described in the literature ranged from 1 to 20°C/min but the impact o...

The ongoing deregulation of electricity industries worldwide is providing incentives for microgrids to use small-scale distributed generation (DG) and combined heat and power (CHP) applications via heat exchangers (HXs) to meet local energy loads. Although the electric-only efficiency of DG is lower than that of central-station production, relatively high tariff rates and the potential for CHP ...