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Fundamentals of heat and mass transfer

G. F. Hewitt
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The article was published on 2008-01-01 and is currently open access. It has received 11281 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Mass transfer.

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Optimization of a recompression supercritical carbon dioxide cycle for an innovative central receiver solar power plant

TL;DR: In this paper, a recompression sCO 2 cycle for a solar central particles receiver application has been optimized, observing net cycle efficiency close to 50% for medium-to-moderate temperature range.
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Phase change material with graphite foam for applications in high-temperature latent heat storage systems of concentrated solar power plants

TL;DR: In this article, a high-temperature latent heat thermal energy storage (LHTES) system was analyzed for applications to concentrated solar power (CSP) plants (utilizing steam at ∼610°C) for large-scale electricity generation.
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Complex superlattice unit cell designs for reduced thermal conductivity

TL;DR: In this article, the suitability of the Green\char21{}Kubo method for predicting the thermal conductivity of nanocomposites is assessed by studying model Lennard-Jones superlattices.
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Thermo-economic analysis of steady state waste heat recovery in data centers using absorption refrigeration

TL;DR: In this article, a steady-state thermodynamic model is developed to perform energy balance and exergy analyses for a novel configuration of an on-chip two-phase cooling system and an absorption refrigeration system.
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Application of nanofluids in plate heat exchanger: A review

TL;DR: A review of previous works featuring experimental and numerical investigations seems to be suggesting, to the level of establishing, that nanofluids have great potential in increasing the overall performance of the plate heat exchangers.