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Experimental thermodynamic evaluation for a single stage heat transformer prototype build with commercial PHEs
J. Ibarra-Bahena,Rosenberg J. Romero,L. Velazquez-Avelar,C.V. Valdez-Morales,Y.R. Galindo-Luna +4 more
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In this paper, an experimental single stage heat transformer (SSHT) with water/carrol mixture was analyzed. But the performance of the SSHT was not evaluated. But four test runs were carried out in order to evaluate the performance and the heat powers were measured from 0.99 to 1.35.About:
This article is published in Applied Thermal Engineering.The article was published on 2015-01-22. It has received 721 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Coefficient of performance & Thermodynamic cycle.read more
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Plate heat exchangers: Recent advances
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Application of absorption heat transformer to recover waste heat from a synthetic rubber plant
Xuehu Ma,Jiabin Chen,Song-Ping Li,Qingyun Sha,Aiming Liang,Li Wei,Jiayan Zhang,Guojun Zheng,Zhihao Feng +8 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors report the test results of the first industrial-scale absorption heat transformer (AHT) equipment in China, to recover the waste heat released from mixture of steam and organic vapor at 98 °C in coacervation section, synthetic rubber plant of Yanshan Petrochemical Corporation, Beijing, China.
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Absorption heat transformers and an industrial application
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