A numerical study has been conducted to investigate the influence of fin pitch and relative humidity on the heat transfer performance of the fin-and-tube heat exchangers having plain fin geometry under dehumidifying conditions. The analysis is done using the ratio between the heat transfer coefficients in totally wet conditions and those in totally dry conditions using the appropriate correlati...

The incentive for industrial waste heat recovery, which has attracted much research interest in recent years, been twofold: the obligation to reduce greenhouse gas emissions line with climate change targets and need processes overall energy consumption order remain commercially competitive [...]

Extreme whole-body hyperthermia was achieved without lasting side effects in canines by elevating body core temperature to 42 degrees C, using a warm water bath. Cold water irrigation of the nasal alar fold permitted an additional core temperature elevation of 0.5-1.0 degrees C above brain temperature for periods up to 1.5 h. The brain-core temperature differential was maintained by a physiolog...

Computational simulation of flow, heat transfer and combustion in a vertical tube heat recovery system generator (HRSG) with a single angel roof, a dual angle roof and an air flow optimized evase are studied. Existing theoretical models for flow and gas combustion [1] are used to predict how the three kinds of roof shapes influence the flue gas and temperature distribution in the whole HRSG Sys...

Gas driven Vuilleumier heat pump is a closed cycle, where the working gas is kept inside the three cylinders and the heat of gas and surroundings are added to and removed from the cycle through heat exchanger. It has many advantages, such as fewer moving parts, low noise and long lifespan. Competitive to absorption cycle, It has the potential for higher Coefficient of Performance (COP). A proto...

In the Compressed Air Energy Storage (CAES) approach, air is compressed to high pressure, stored, and expanded to output work when needed. The temperature of air tends to rise during compression, and the rise in the air internal energy is wasted during the later storage period as the compressed air cools back to ambient temperature. The present study focuses on designing an interrupted-plate he...

It is demonstrated how ModelicaTM is used in an application to develop models that are useful when solving real problems. Modelica is a new unified modeling language being developed in an international effort to promote object-oriented and non-causal modeling, and exchange of model libraries. The application is a heat exchanger where the media are liquids, typically water. This type of heat exc...

For many countries, increasing energy efficiency and reducing greenhouse gas emissions are key countermeasures to cope with the energy crisis and climate change. Of the various heating equipment such as heat pumps, gas-fired boilers, oil-fired boilers, or electric boilers, heat pumps are widely adopted for space heating, water heating, and process heating by households, business, and industry d...

Energy saving is major matter in our global world, and heat exchanger is very useful for energy saving. Of course heat exchanger is most significant component for chemical reaction, distillation, dissolution, crystallization, fermentation etc. So the correct selection of heat exchanger is important in these processes. Spiral tube Heat Exchangers are known as excellent heat exchanger because of ...

In this study, the air-side pressure drop and heat transfer performance of plate-fin and microchannel coils were tested under clean and fouled conditions. The heat exchangers were tested with two different types of dust, ASHRAE dust and Arizona Road Test Dust. The ASHRAE dust was found to have a very significant impact on the pressure drop of the microchannel heat exchanger, increasing the air-...