Showing papers in "Applied Thermal Engineering in 2018"

TL;DR: In this paper, a review of studies both theoretical and experimental on ORC usage for waste heat recovery and investigation on the effect of cycle configuration, working fluid selection and operating condition on the system performance have been developed during the last four years.

TL;DR: A conflict bi-objective model for cost-emission based operation of industrial consumer in the presence of peak load management is proposed and fuzzy decision making approach is provided to select the trade-off solution from the Pareto solutions.

TL;DR: In this paper, waste heat fractions derived from a detailed study of the UK industry from the period 2000-2003 have been calculated in this work for each main industrial sector and temperature level.

TL;DR: An extensive review of a battery thermal management systems (BTMSs) such as phase-change materials (PCMs) in the state of art is proposed, based on previous reviews to help to update the thin number of references.

TL;DR: In this paper, a review summarizes the latest research papers of battery liquid cooling systems from three aspects, including the performance of coolant, classification of liquid cooling system and design of battery pack.

TL;DR: In this paper, an experimental study on water desalination using a solar still having phase change material (PCM) and connected to a solar collector was carried out, where the PCM is used to store solar thermal energy collected by the system at daytime as latent heat, to provide heat during night time thus continuous operation.

TL;DR: In this article, the influence of four parameters on the cooling effect of a liquid-cooled battery thermal management model was analyzed using a L16(44) orthogonal array to design sixteen models to identify the main and secondary factors.

TL;DR: In this article, the potential of pyrolysis for the production of bioenergy was investigated using agricultural waste biomass pea residue for its potential to be used in pyrotechnics.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors reviewed and summarized recent investigations conducted on use of nanofluids in heat exchangers including those carried out on plate heat exchanger, double-pipe heat exchange, shell and tube heat exchange and compact heat exchange.

TL;DR: In this article, the thermal effects on micro-properties of granite were experimentally studied and two indexes (heterogeneity coefficient and anisotropy coefficient) were proposed to describe the micro properties of granite.

TL;DR: In this article, a transient numerical model is developed to study the heat transfer and melting behaviors of phase change materials (PCMs) vertically heated from one side of a rectangular enclosure.

TL;DR: In this article, an overall experimental investigation on NOx emission based on combustion characteristics of biodiesel has been carried out, and a little decrease in NOx emissions was observed at low loads under low and medium engine speeds.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors presented a mathematical model to predict the transient temperature and voltage distributions of 18650 cylindrical lithium-ion battery at different discharge rates, and the results also showed that the increased C-rates results in increased temperature on the principle surface of the battery.

TL;DR: In this paper, a serials phase change materials (PCM) based battery thermal management system for cylindrical lithium battery module was designed, which were pure PCM, heat pipe coupled with air assisted PCM (PCMC/HP-Air), heat pipe and liquid assisted PCMC(PCM/HP liquid), respectively.

TL;DR: In this paper, a literature review has been made about pre-chamber ignition systems as lean combustion technology, focusing in the several investigations regarding combustion and emissions characteristics and presenting the key advantages and challenges in pre chamber ignition technology application.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors used the computational fluid dynamics (CFD) method and lumped model of single cell to investigate the thermal characteristic of the 18650 battery module which consists of 60 pieces of cells and standard battery holders.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors evaluated the effect of the biodiesel and various alcohols additions to petroleum-based diesel fuel (DF) on combustion, performance and emissions of a single-cylinder diesel engine at different engine loads.

TL;DR: In this paper, performance analysis of coal-fired power plant combined with supercritical CO2 Brayton power cycle was performed, and the expected power generation efficiency and levelized cost of electricity (LCOE) were thoroughly estimated.

TL;DR: The results show that the hybrid CCHP system under the FEL-ECR mode is the best choice, and its PESR, CO2ERR and ATCSR can reach 36.15%, 53.73% and 4.16%, respectively.

TL;DR: In this article, a new design absorber plate with conical surface was investigated and compared to flat absorber plates in single front pass conventional solar air heater, and the experiments were performed for three mass flow rates of 0.04, 0.08 and 0.10 kg/s in outdoor conditions.

TL;DR: In this article, the effect of polymer/porous materials composition, nanoparticles loading and photo-absorption properties of photothermal energy conversion material on the thermal stability, thermal conductivity and light absorption of composite solid-liquid organic PCMs are reviewed and analyzed.

TL;DR: In this paper, Li-ion battery pack has been tested under constant current discharge rates (e.g. 1C, 2C, 3C, 4C) and for a real drive cycle with liquid cooling.

TL;DR: In this paper, fuel consumption and exhaust emissions were measured during the cold transient over the execution of chassis-dynamometer tests, and calculated as a function of oxygen content of all ethanol/gasoline test fuels.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigate the heat transfer capability of Mg (OH)2/MWCNT- engine oil hybrid nano-lubricant and propose two new trustworthy correlations to predict the dynamic viscosity and thermal conductivity.

TL;DR: In this article, the performance of a new configuration of a Combined Cooling, Heating and Power (CCHP) cycle including a Brayton cycle, a Rankine cycle, an ejector refrigeration cycle, and a domestic water heater is studied by utilization of 4E (energy, exergy, economic and environmental) analysis.

TL;DR: In this article, a new solution to integrate and improve the thermal heat transfer of a phase change material (PCM) inside a battery thermal management system (BTMS) is proposed and the effect of the PCM melting temperature on the system performance is investigated.

TL;DR: In this article, a feasibility study of using a new nano-engine oil containing a combination of MWCNT (multi wall carbon nanotubes)-ZnO nanoparticles with the ratio of 30-70% has been arranged.

TL;DR: In this paper, an experimental study with the exergy analysis is performed to investigate the application of a reticular porous insert in a single slope solar still for performance improvement, and the results show that the modified still produces 17.35% more distilled water in comparison to the conventional one during one day.

TL;DR: In this paper, the experimental and numerical studies are carried out in order to investigate the thermal performance of water cooling based battery thermal management system in lithium ion batteries dynamic cycling, and an electrochemical-thermal model is adopted to predict the thermal behavior and validates with experimental measurement.

TL;DR: In this article, a heat pipe assisted thermoelectric generator (HP-TEG) for automobile exhaust waste heat recovery is proposed, and an experimental prototype was constructed to obtain the best heat pipes insertion depth (Dhp), and the optimum angle between the heat pipe row and the gas flow direction (θhp).