Afif Hasan

TL;DR: A systematic approach for optimization of insulation material thickness is developed in this paper and then applied to Palestine, where the optimization is based on the life cycle cost analysis and the optimal insulation thickness is selected as a function of degree days and wall thermal resistance.

TL;DR: In this article, thermal energy storage in some fatty acids as phase-change materials has been investigated for a domestic water heating system, and the selected fatty acids were myristic acid, palmitic acid and stearic acid.

TL;DR: In this article, the first and second laws of thermodynamics were used to analyze a novel thermodynamic cycle proposed by Goswami in 1995 that uses an ammonia-water binary mixture as the working fluid, while producing both power and refrigeration simultaneously.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors proposed a combined thermal power and cooling cycle, which combines the Rankine and absorption refrigeration cycles, using a binary ammonia-water mixture as the working fluid.

TL;DR: In this paper, the phase transition time is related to the Stefan number by a simple correlation, and the melting time can be reduced significantly by placing the tube containing the phase change material in a horizontal position rather than in a vertical one.