Absorption of ammonia in an ammonia - ionic liquid solution: A detailed experimental and numerical study of the absorption process

Excessive consumption of non - renewable resources in the recent times has negative effects on the environment, one of the important of which include global warming. This suggests an urgent need for adaption to the sustainable use of the resources, for which the thermal technologies show a lot of scope. Absorption heat pump is a type of heat...

The Thermodynamics of Economic Engineering: With Applications to Economic Growth

The economic engineering group at the DCSC uses Newtonian and analytical mechanics to model economic systems but makes no use of thermodynamics. The introduction of thermodynamics to the economic engineering framework would increase the extent of analysis and interpretation of economic systems in economic engineering. In this thesis the...

Fault Detection and Diagnosis of Industrial Heat Pumps of GEA B.V.

Heat pumps represent an effective technology to convert electrical energy to thermal energy through the expansion and compression of a refrigerant. Heat pumps are becoming increasingly more efficient<br/>which decreases energy consumption. However as heat pumps are getting increasingly more efficient, complexity is also increasing which leads to...

Air-conditioning with TBAB clathrate hydrate slurry as secondary loop refrigerant

The demand of energy increases steadily due to the growing global population and the increasing living standard of emerging markets. The increasing energy demand and reduction of greenhouse gasses require a significant increase of renewable energy sources and energy efficiency of buildings. Also, the increasing degree of renewable energy sources...

Air conditioning with TBAB clathrate hydrate slurry as distribution fluid

At the moment, the worldwide demand for air conditioning is rapidly growing, and it is expected to exceed the demand for space heating by the 2060s. However, traditional refrigerants such as CFCs and HCFCs are regulated or phased out by the Montreal and Kyoto protocol. Secondary loop refrigerant systems use less of these harmful refrigerants...