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A Comprehensive Review of Thermal Performance Improvement of High-Temperature Heat Pipes
Energy efficiency issues are being focused on the growing concern of global warming and environmental pollution. The high-temperature heat pipe (HTHP) is an effective and environmental-friendly heat transfer d...
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Experimental Study on Flow Boiling Heat Transfer Characteristics of Microencapsulated Phase Change Material Suspension
Due to its core phase change characteristics, microencapsulated phase change material (MPCM) can make many base fluids have better heat transfer characteristics. In this paper, the flow boiling heat transfer c...
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Optimization of Thermal Conductivity of Alumina-Filled Composites by Numerical Simulations
Understanding the correlation between the physical features of composite components and thermal conductive pathway is beneficial to optimizing the overall heat-transfer performance. Herein, we conduct numerica...
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High-performance non-silicone thermal interface materials based on tunable size and polymorphic liquid metal inclusions
Incorporating liquid metal droplets into polymer matrix has become one of the most promising strategies to enhance the thermally conductive performance of thermal interface materials (TIMs) for the escalating ...
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Open AccessUltralow-temperature-driven water-based sorption refrigeration enabled by low-cost zeolite-like porous aluminophosphate
Thermally driven water-based sorption refrigeration is considered a promising strategy to realize near-zero-carbon cooling applications by addressing the urgent global climate challenge caused by conventional ...
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Experimental and Numerical Study of an 80-kW Zigzag Printed Circuit Heat Exchanger for Supercritical CO2 Brayton Cycle
In this study, an experimental system was built to investigate the global performance of an 80-kW zigzag printed circuit heat exchanger (PCHE). It could meet the requirement of the pre-cooler for the supercrit...
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Synthesis and performances evaluation of the spindle-shaped calcium hydroxide nanomaterials for thermochemical energy storage
Thermochemical energy storage is a promising alternation in heat recovery application and concentrated solar power plants. The present work focuses on the influence of morphology and porosity of Ca(OH)2 nanomater...
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Highly dispersed CuCo nanoparticles supported on reduced graphene oxide as high-activity catalysts for hydrogen evolution from ammonia borane hydrolysis
Hydrogen has been considered one of the best energy carriers to satisfy the increasing demand for clean and renewable energy supply. In this paper, a series of copper-based (CuCo, CuNi, and CuFe) nanoparticles...
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Heat Transfer and Entropy Generation Analysis of an Intermediate Heat Exchanger in ADS
The intermediate heat exchanger for enhancement heat transfer is the important equipment in the usage of nuclear energy. In the present work, heat transfer and entropy generation of an intermediate heat exchan...
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Exergy analysis and performance enhancement of isopropanol-acetone-hydrogen chemical heat pump
Exergy loss analysis was conducted to identify the irreversibility in each component of the isopropanolacetone-hydrogen chemical heat pump (IAH-CHP). The results indicate that the highest irreversibility on a ...
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Influence of thermal and solutal Marangoni effects on free surface deformation in an open rectangular cavity
Steady thermo-solutocapillary convection in a rectangular cavity with deformable free surface under microgravity condition is numerically studied, where level set method is employed to capture the free surface...
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Interaction of two cavitation bubbles in a tube and its effects on heat transfer
When two cavitation bubbles exist in a confined space, the interaction between the bubbles significantly affects the characteristics of bubble dynamic behaviors. In this paper, a three-dimensional (3D) model i...
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Erratum to: CFD study on local fluid-to-wall heat transfer in packed beds and field synergy analysis
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Evolution of Free Surface in the Formation of Thermo-Solutocapillary Convection Within an Open Cavity
In order to understand the characteristics of free surface evolution in thermo-solutocapillary convection formation, a set of two-dimensional numerical simulations is conducted using level set method for therm...
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CFD study on local fluid-to-wall heat transfer in packed beds and field synergy analysis
To reach the target of smaller pressure drop and better heat transfer performance, packed beds with small tube-to-particle diameter ratio (D/d p<10) have now been considered in man...
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Free Surface Deformation of Thermo-Solutocapillary Convection in Axisymmetric Liquid Bridge
Steady thermo-solutocapillary convection in axisymmetric liquid bridge with dynamic free surface is numerically studied in the absence of gravitational effects. The upper and lower disks of liquid bridge maint...
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Acetone hydrogenation in exothermic reactor of an isopropanol–acetone–hydrogen chemical heat pump: effect of intra-particle mass and heat transfer
Intra-particle mass and heat transfer plays an important role in performance of the exothermic fixed-bed reactor for an isopropanol–acetone–hydrogen chemical heat pump. In this work, an exothermic fixed-bed re...
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Numerical Investigation of Thermocapillary Convection in a Liquid Layer with Free Surface
Effects of Marangoni number, aspect ratio and gravity level on thermocapillary convection in a liquid layer is investigated numerically, in which the level set method is employed to capture free surface deform...
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Effect of cavitating flow on forced convective heat transfer: a modeling study
With water as working medium, a numerical study on liquid convection heat transfer accompanied by cavitating flow in a circular tube was conducted by combining mixture model and Schnerr–Sauer cavitation mode i...
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High temperature catalytic hydrogenation of acetone over Raney Ni for chemical heat pump
Exothermic hydrogenation reaction of acetone is an important part of an IAH-CHP, and the performance of IAH-CHP is affected directly by this reaction. This paper studies the influence of space velocity, temper...
