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Safari, Vahid (author), Kamkari, Babak (author), Hewitt, Neil (author), Hooman, K. (author)The low thermal conductivity of phase change materials (PCMs) has limited their widespread use in practical applications. In the present study, different fin structures, namely, rectangular, perforated, and pin were examined to analyze the thermal performance of the melting process in rectangular latent heat storage tanks. Experiments were...journal article 2024
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Wang, J. (author), Yan, Xin ping (author), Boersma, B.J. (author), Lu, Ming jian (author), Liu, Xiaohua (author)Printed circuit heat exchangers (PCHE) are designed to improve heat recovery and energy saving in supercritical CO<sub>2</sub> (S-CO<sub>2</sub>) power cycles. In the current study, a modified channel PCHE is proposed based on the regular straight channel and a zigzag channel. The thermal–hydraulic performance of four different types of PCHE...journal article 2023
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Song, G. (author), Roubinet, Delphine (author), Wang, Xiaoguang (author), Li, Gensheng (author), Song, Xianzhi (author), Tartakovsky, Daniel M. (author)Fracture distribution plays a significant role in the behavior of subsurface environments, affecting such activities as geothermal production, exploitation and management of groundwater resources, and long-term storage of nuclear waste and carbon dioxide. A key challenge in these and other applications is to estimate the fracture network...journal article 2023
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Opolot, Michael (author), Zhao, Chunrong (author), Keane, Partrick F. (author), Liu, Ming (author), Mancin, Simone (author), Bruno, Frank (author), Hooman, K. (author)Thermal energy storage is increasingly needed in a sustainable world because of its potential of capturing waste heat and being incorporated in solar power plants. For power generation, in particular, as turbine technology advances, a demand for higher temperature thermal energy storage materials also grows. For this purpose, latent thermal...journal article 2023
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Heegstra, Sjoerd (author)Interest in biogas has increased due to natural gas shortages and the energy transition. Most digesters in the EU have internal heating for process stability. Unheated reactors could potentially lower costs, but have decreased kinetics due to low operational temperatures, especially in winter. This raises the question how seasonal temperature...master thesis 2022
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kleyn Winkel, Lars (author)By placing multiple Peltier elements in a linear arrangement while two water flows run past the elements, a temperature increase can be realised in one flow while the other flow is cooled down. In this study the heating of domestic hot water with Peltier elements as solid state heat pumps, and a heating network was investigated. A numerical...master thesis 2022
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van den Hoed, wouter (author)During the last years the demand for vegetarian products has increased. A subgroup of these vegetarian products consists of meat analogs, which are products that resemble meat in its functionality and are prepared in a similar fashion. One of the companies producing these meat analogs is Rival Foods. Rival Foods has been working on a production...master thesis 2022
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Castellanos, Rodrigo (author), Michelis, Theodorus (author), Discetti, Stefano (author), Ianiro, Andrea (author), Kotsonis, M. (author)The effect of streamwise plasma vortex generators on the convective heat transfer of a turbulent boundary layer is experimentally investigated. A Dielectric Barrier Discharge (DBD) plasma-actuator array is employed to promote pairs of counter-rotating, streamwise-aligned vortices embedded in a well-behaved turbulent boundary layer over a flat...journal article 2022
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Vesper, J.E. (author), Tietjen, Sebastian C. (author), Chakkingal, M. (author), Kenjeres, S. (author)In the present study, we analyse individual and combined effects of conductive horizontal walls and conductive fins on the natural convection of air in side heated cavities (SHC). The flow and heat transfer are studied for Rayleigh numbers in the range of 10<sup>4</sup>−−10<sup>9</sup>: Direct Numerical Simulation (DNS) is conducted for the...journal article 2022
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Safari, Vahid (author), Kamkari, Babak (author), Hooman, K. (author), Khodadadi, J. M. (author)Widespread commercialization of PCM-based latent heat storage systems is limited by the low melting and solidification rates during the phase transition process. In this study, fins are used to enhance the phase change process. A parametric study is conducted to understand the effect of fins on the thermal performance of vertically- and...journal article 2022
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Wang, Siyuan (author)Drinking water temperature is an essential parameter for water quality related to the physical, chemical and biological processes in water. However, in many countries, the drinking water temperature has not been taken seriously and was excluded from water quality standards. For example, in the Netherlands, the temperature of drinking water...master thesis 2021
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Aulbers, Rik (author)This thesis contributes to the scientific underpinning of the battle against fruit frost. Fruit frost is the freezing damage to blossoms when in the growing season the night temperature drops below 0±C. This results in damaged or undeveloped fruits, and a yield loss for the fruit farmer. Several techniques against fruit frost have been developed...master thesis 2021
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Silvestri, S. (author)Radiative heat transfer has a large influence in engineering systems, especially when the temperature involved is elevated. For this reason a correct assessment of heat transfer in presence of radiation is of great importance in high temperature and pressure equipment such as combustion chambers, heat exchangers as well as reentry vehicles and...doctoral thesis 2021
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Moghaddam, E.M.C. (author), Foumeny, E.A. (author), Stankiewicz, A.I. (author), Padding, J.T. (author)This paper investigates the validity of azimuthal averaging of 3D temperature fields in the analysis of lateral heat transfer in dense particle packings. This is conducted by synthetic generation of 3D packing surrogates of spheres, cylinders and Raschig rings with tube-to-pellet diameter ratio, 3 < N < 6, using an in-house Rigid Body...journal article 2021
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Kura, Tomasz (author), Fornalik-Wajs, Elzbieta (author), Wajs, Jan (author), Kenjeres, S. (author)The jet impingement phenomenon plays an important role among the heat transfer intensification methods. Very often its application and analyses refer to simple flat surfaces, while there is a lack of information in the literature for cases addressing curved surfaces. In the present work, the single jet impingement on the non-flat (concave and...journal article 2021
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Koehler, Stijn (author)The heat fluxes in (liquid) rocket engines can go up to high values and they need active cooling to prevent the chamber wall from failing. Transpiration cooling is identified as a way to achieve lower wall temperatures than commonly used regenerative cooling and regenerative cooling with additional film cooling (referred to as film cooling from...master thesis 2020
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Verbeek, Frederik (author)The production of steel is an energy intensive process, using 20GJ/tonne of steel. The energy use needs to be declined by 10% in 2030 in order to be on track of the Sustainable Development Scenario(SDS). About 1GJ/tonne is required today by the annealing process, a heat treatment in which the steel strip is heated to a temperature of about 600...master thesis 2020
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Aminian, Ehsan (author), Moghadasi, Hesam (author), Saffari, Hamid (author), Mirza Gheytaghi, Amir (author)Corrugating channel wall is considered to be an efficient procedure for achieving improved heat transfer. Further enhancement can be obtained through the utilization of nanofluids and porous media with high thermal conductivity. This paper presents the effect of geometrical parameters for the determination of an appropriate configuration....journal article 2020
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Ataei Dadavi, I. (author), Chakkingal, M. (author), Kenjeres, S. (author), Kleijn, C.R. (author), Tummers, M.J. (author)This paper reports on an experimental study of mixed convection flow and heat transfer in a vented, differentially side-heated cubical cavity filled with a porous medium consisting of relatively large solid low-conductivity spheres. Rayleigh numbers and Reynolds numbers are varied over the ranges 6 × 10<sup>6</sup> < Ra < 7 × 10<sup>7<...journal article 2020
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Guzmán Sáenz, Francisco (author)The construction, operation and maintenance of buildings consume more than 40% of primary energy in most countries. Out of this 40%, a large portion is related to the operational phase involving heat losses through a buildings envelope. To reduce this loss, several materials have been developed to reduce the thermal transmittance through a...master thesis 2019