Showing papers in "Applied Thermal Engineering in 2019"

TL;DR: In this article, an effective battery thermal management system solution is discussed in terms of the maximum temperature and maximum temperature difference of the batteries and an effective BTMS that complements the disadvantages of each system is discussed.

TL;DR: This work proposes a robust optimization approach for uncertainty modeling of cooling demand in order to obtain robust chiller loading in the uncertain environment which cooling demand is supplied by multi-chiller system.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors summarize preparation methods and thermal properties of the phase change materials (MPCM), which helps to better understand the composition and working mechanism of the MPCM, and provide enormous potential to meet the growing demands for applications of cooling and heating in buildings, textiles and MPCM slurry.

TL;DR: In this paper, a battery pack with 32 high energy density cylindrical lithium-ion batteries is designed to comprehensively investigate the characteristics of an air cooling system, and a series of evaluation parameters, the air cooling performances of aligned, staggered, and cross battery packs are experimentally studied and compared at different air inlet velocities.

TL;DR: In this paper, the non-uniform solar flux features in four CSP technologies including the parabolic-trough collector, the linear Fresnel collector and the solar power tower were reviewed, and a recommendation for the optimization of the solar collector was provided.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present a review of thermal management of catalysts, which aims to significantly reduce the light-off time and emission concentrations through appropriate heating methods, such as burners, reformers and electrically heated catalysts.

TL;DR: In this paper, the performance of a flat-plate solar collector was investigated by using water, Al2O3 nanofluid, and CuO nanoparticles as the working fluids.

TL;DR: In this article, a new kind of composite phase change material (CPCM) is successfully prepared by constructing a binary thermal conductive skeleton of expanded graphite (EG)/copper foam (CF).

TL;DR: In this article, the authors proposed a method to combine the Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 51776144 ) and Natural Sciences Foundation of Hubei Province (No. 2016CFA041 ).

TL;DR: In this article, a modified battery layout system is proposed to induce active and passive cooling for each cell of a battery module, where each cell is placed in a 4 1/4mm cylindrical gap enclosure filled with phase change material and interconnected together for further cooling at inter-spacings.

TL;DR: In this paper, a thermal management system based on heat pipes is proposed for a battery module with cylindrical cells, and a computational fluid dynamics model is built for the BTMS and validated with experimental results.

TL;DR: In this article, the effect of the value used for the mushy zone parameter (Amush) on predicted heat transfer and melting characteristics of a phase change material (PCM) Lauric acid, in both vertical and horizontal enclosures was studied.

TL;DR: In this article, an experimental investigation is carried out to examine the melting process of nanoparticle enhanced phase change material (i.e., nano-PCM) inside a metal foam enclosure under constant heat flux boundary condition.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors compared the energy and exergy performances of solar dish assisted supercritical carbon dioxide recompression with reheat Brayton cycle and found that Al2O3 oil-based nanofluid has the highest overall energy and energy exergy efficiencies, almost 33.73% and 36.27%, respectively and is almost 0.27% more than TiO2/oil nanofluid and 0.91% higher than CuO/oil based nanoflluid.

TL;DR: The results indicated that as compared with the other two machine learning methods, the proposed LS-SVM model with optimization showed a better FDD performance in terms of the overall correct rate for all the samples, the individual correct rates for each fault, the diagnostic efficiency, the detection rate and the false alarm rate, etc.

TL;DR: In this article, a comprehensive review on energy conservation technologies for fresh air supply, including theoretical, experimental and simulation works, is presented, where the advantages and disadvantages, economy and climate adaptability of different energy conservation techniques for air supply in buildings are analyzed and discussed.

TL;DR: In this article, a streamline shape mini-channel cooling plate was used to improve the performance of the inner mini channel cooling plate in the battery thermal management of the electric vehicles.

TL;DR: In this article, a parametric study on the influence of structural parameters on the cooling effect of a liquid-cooled battery module is presented, and a multobjective optimization is performed to develop a cooling system with lower temperature and lower energy consumption.

TL;DR: In this paper, the energy efficiency of a single slope solar still using steel mesh fibers and hollow cylindrical pin fins as absorbing materials is investigated, and the results show that the total daily cumulative yield of distillate water in cases 2 and 3 enhanced by 16% and 25%, respectively in comparison with case 1.

TL;DR: In this article, an integrated design of PCM and cooling plate has been proposed for preventing heat propagation and thermal runaway in a battery module made of 18,650 cells that have been damaged by nail penetration of upto three cells.

TL;DR: In this paper, an experimental approach of a new hybrid system of modified pyramid solar still (MPSS) combined with evacuated tubes and nanofluids for high thermal performance was presented.

TL;DR: The downside risk constraints (DRC) are proposed to minimize the risk associated with uncertainties in order to obtain the risk-based scheduling of energy hub via scenario-based stochastic programming and the effect of the DRP on the problem is investigated and the results show that the expected cost and RIC are decreased.

TL;DR: In this article, the effect of the inclination angle of finned enclosures on the development of buoyancy-driven convection flows is investigated, and the results showed that the melting time reduces by decreasing the inclination angles of the enclosure due to the intensification of the natural convection flow and increase in the number of vortices in the liquid PCM.

TL;DR: In this paper, the optical absorption properties and photo-thermal conversion performance of hybrid CuO-MWCNT/H2O nanofluids at different concentration mixing ratios (CMRs) were experimentally tested and compared to evaluate the solar thermal energy harvest capability.

TL;DR: In this article, a review categorizes and summarizes the recent development related to the characteristics of flow and heat transfer in printed circuit heat exchanger (PCHE) based on results from experiments and numerical simulations.

TL;DR: In this paper, the effect of equivalence ratio on combustion and emissions with a low compression ratio of 14.2 in a dual-fuel 6 cylinder engine was experimentally studied.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors proposed a methodology to design an efficient air-cooling system, which is hybrid of system volume and cooling performance, which can be used for industrial battery pack design process to reduce maximum temperature, temperature difference and the volume of battery pack.

TL;DR: In this paper, the influence of regeneration temperature, regeneration flow rate and regeneration time on both regeneration and emission performance by regeneration test bench was discussed, and the optimization active regeneration operating parameters were achieved after considering both regeneration efficiency, total mass concentration and emitted particle average diameter.

TL;DR: Simulation results based on well-known twelve benchmark single-objective functions demonstrate the efficiency, effectiveness and robustness of the proposed Falcon Optimization Algorithm in comparison to other algorithms.

TL;DR: In this paper, a thermal management system equipped with micro heat pipe array (MHPA) is designed to predict the transient temperature distribution of a battery pack based on MHPA cooling.