Traditionally, energy recommendations from energy audits have been concerned with the energy use of cooling towers for point of use energy, such as variable speed fans, and pumping savings. The actual energy use of a cooling tower is small, and is only a portion of the energy involved in the entire cooling system. The majority of the energy used is to perform the work necessary to compress the ...

The authors of the main thermoeconomic methodologies developed in the last two decades have recently focused their efforts on the analysis of dissipative devices, i.e. those components whose productive purpose is neither intuitive nor easy to define. Coherent and unanimously accepted cost structures have been identified for dissipative components, while ambiguities still exist as concerns the c...

• Computationally efficient and accurate adsorption chiller model. Avoiding discretization of heat exchanger models by operator splitting. Model validation for two real-world chillers. Broad application range established in terms a characteristic number. 70% increase computational efficiency compared to state-of-the-art Reliable computationally are crucial improve the performance However, model...

The pre-chilling of rabbit carcasses in an immersion tank directly interferes with microbial control. Therefore, this study was developed to examine the influence different pre-chill water temperatures (4, 7, and 10 °C) on microbiological quality carcasses. Samples ice from pre-chiller were collected; mesophilic aerobic heterotrophic microorganisms (MES), enterobacteria (EC), coagulase-positive...

Chemical looping process (CLP) is a promising technology for in-situ CO2 capture without energy penalty. Direct CLP has more compact structure, favorable economic competitiveness, and larger reduction of exergy loss compared to syngas CLP. In this work, novel biomass direct chemical combustion (CLC) driven tri-generation system the production cooling, heating, power proposed. The proposed conta...

Sustainable greenhouses have gained relevance in recent years due to their potential reduce the carbon footprint of agricultural sector by being integrated with renewable systems, contributing decarbonization energy. Although solar technologies tend be more accessible cover system’s energy demands, are subject installation area restrictions, limiting potential. This research evaluates advantage...

Raw poultry and poultry products are a significant source of zoonotic bacterial pathogen transmission; thus the sensitive detection of major zoonotic pathogens (Salmonella spp., Campylobacter jejuni, and Listeria monocytogenes) is a vital food safety issue. Recently, third generation PCR technology, known as droplet digital PCR (ddPCR) has been developed to be more accurate and sensitive to det...