in this paper the effect of block shape vortex generators (vgs) on an air-water fin-tube heat exchanger has been studied experimentally using exergy analysis method. also the effect of these vgs on increasing heat transfer rate has been simulated numerically and the results show a good agreement with the experiments. in this research we used a wind tunnel to produce wind flow over heat exchange...

This study investigated the influence of solution salinity, pH and the sediment characteristics on the sorption and desorption of perfluorooctane sulfonate (PFOS). The results showed that the sorption of PFOS onto sediment increased by a factor of 3 as the CaCl(2) concentration increased from 0.005 to 0.5 mol L(-1) at pH 7.0, and nearly 6 at pH 8.0. Desorption hysteresis occurred over all salin...

In this study exergy and exergoeconomic analyses of a refrigeration system with two evaporators and an internal heat exchanger were performed. The analysis of the whole system included various thermodynamics parameters such as sustainability index, exergetic improvement potential, ratio of the thermodynamic losses(energetic and exergetic losses) to the capital cost, relative irreversibility for...

Adsorption and desorption of sulfamethoxazole (SMX) at water-sediment interfaces from Taihu Lake, China, were investigated in this study. The effects of a cationic surfactant, cetyltrimethylammonium bromide (CTAB), and an anionic surfactant, sodium dodecylbenzene sulfonate (SDBS), on the adsorption/desorption processes were also studied. Results show that adsorption and desorption could be well...

A second-law analysis of a gravity-driven film of non-Newtonian fluid along an inclined heated plate is investigated. The flow is assumed to be steady, laminar and fully-developed. The upper surface of the liquid film is considered to be free and adiabatic. The effect of heat generation by viscous dissipation is included. Velocity, temperature and entropy generation profiles are presented. The ...

Today, very complex economic relationships exist between finance, technology, social needs, and so forth, which represent the requirement of sustainability. Sustainable consumption resources, production energy policies are keys for a sustainable development. Moreover, growing request in bio-based industrial raw materials requires reorganization chains sectors. This is based on new technological...

We propose an approach based on time reversibility analysis to characterize the cardiovascular regulation and its nonlinearities as derived from 24 hours Holter recordings of heart period variability in a healthy population (n=12, age: median=43 years, range=34-55 years) and in a pathological group of age-matched chronic heart failure (CHF) patients (n=13, primarily in NYHA class II, age: media...

Time irreversibility, which characterizes nonequilibrium processes, can be measured based on the probabilistic differences between symmetric vectors. To simplify quantification of time permutations instead vectors have been employed in some studies. However, although effective practical applications, this approach is conceptually incorrect. irreversibility should rather than permutations, where...

The irreversibility e¤ect was found not to hold in more general model than in the one considered by Arrow and Fisher [1] and Henry [7]. In this paper we try to restore this irreversibility e¤ect and we de…ne a quasi irreversibility e¤ect.