A. Kaltayev

TL;DR: A comprehensive review on research and developments on solar assisted compression heat pump systems, mostly reported during the last two decades, is presented in this article, where the authors provide a detailed description of the past efforts on various system configurations, system modeling, enhancement of system performance, modifications in compression heat-pump cycles and environment friendly refrigerant options.

TL;DR: In this article, a comprehensive review on applications of solar assisted compression heat pump systems and its associated research potentials is presented, where the reported investigations on solar assisted heat pumps are categorized into five major groups as follows: drying, room space heating; agricultural green house space heating, water heating and desalination applications.

TL;DR: In this article, a numerical model has been proposed for predicting the energy performance of a heat pump assisted solar dryer under continental climates, which is based on energy and mass balance.

TL;DR: In this paper, two sequentially integrated LHTES devices based on paraffin waxes (PW), PW-L and PW-H with different phase change temperature ranges are numerically studied using Comsol multiphysics for efficient thermal energy storage (TES).

TL;DR: In this article, the flame propagation and structure of a stoichiometric methane-air flame in a closed vessel was investigated, and a qualitative agreement with experiments was obtained for different length to width ratios of the vessel.