Fossil-fuel combustion related winter heating has become a major air quality and public health concern in northern China recently. We analyzed the impact of winter heating on aerosol loadings over China using the MODIS-Aqua Collection 6 aerosol product from 2004-2012. Absolute humidity (AH) and planetary boundary layer height (PBL) -adjusted aerosol optical depth (AOD*) was constructed to refle...

Subject review People want to have good conditions in their living and existing places. Therefore heating and cooling methods are developed according to different application areas, different heat transfer principles. When we heat a place, the suitability of the placement of heating element and applied heating method need to be examined from the aspect of factors such as effect on human health,...

Induction heating is a widespread industrial technique and a subject of scientific research. The application fields of induction heating increase due to development of modern industrial technologies and advantages of the induction heating process. The development of traditional induction heating system applications for melting or through heating is mainly to increase power or production rates o...

In this paper we calculate the turbulent heating rates in the solar wind using the Kolmogorov-like MHD turbulence phenomenology with Kolmogorov’s constants calculated by Verma and Bhattacharjee [1995b,c]. We find that the turbulent heating can not account for the total heating of the nonAlfvénic streams in the solar wind. We show that dissipation due to thermal conduction is also a potential he...

Induction heating is clean environmental heating process due to a non-contact heating process. There is lots of the induction heating type that be used in the home appliance but it is still new technology in Indonesia. The main interesting area of the induction heating design is the efficiency of the usage of energy and choice of the plate material. COMSOL Multiphysics Software can be used to s...

Currently, convective heating with a heat-pump system, which has high energy efficiency, is popular for room heating. However, it is possible that energy savings using convective heating can be further improved using heat pumps that service both occupied and unoccupied spaces. Moreover, convective heating increases vertical temperature gradients in a room; thus, it is hard to say whether occupa...

Hyperthermia is one of the modalities for cancer treatment, utilizing the difference of thermal sensitivity between tumor and normal tissue. Interstitial microwave hyperthermia is one of the heating schemes and it is applied to a localized tumor. In the treatments, heating pattern control around antennas are important, especially for the treatment in and around critical organs. This paper intro...

Flare emissions in X-ray and EUV wavelengths have previously been modeled as the plasma response to impulsive heating from magnetic reconnection. Some flares exhibit gradually evolving X-ray and EUV light curves, which are believed to result from superposition of an extended sequence of impulsive heating events occurring in different adjacent loops or even unresolved threads within each loop. I...

Induction heating is a process whereby heat is generated in electrically conducting materials through ohmic losses from eddy currents induced by varying electromagnetic fields. This phenomenon can be described by a heat transfer equation and an eddy current equation. These two equations are coupled because most of the material properties are temperature-dependent. In this report a description i...

Climate change affects the demand for energy consumption, especially for heating and cooling buildings. Using daily mean temperature (Tmean) data, this study analyzed the spatiotemporal changes of the starting date for heating (HS), ending date for heating (HE), length (HL) and heating degree day (HDD) of the heating season in central heating zone of China. Over China's central heating zone, re...