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Contractile floating barriers for confinement and recuperation of oil slicks

Marine oil spills can cause serious environmental damages to natural resources and to those whose sustenance depends upon these resources. Unfortunately experience shows that even the best efforts have not prevented occasional occurrences of major accident ...

EPFL2007

Disentangling oil weathering using GCxGC. 2. Mass transfer calculations

Jeremy Samuel Arey

Hydrocarbon mass transfers to the atmosphere and water column drive the early weathering of oil spills and also control the chemical exposures of many coastal wildlife species. However, in the field, mass transfer rates of individual hydrocarbons to air an ...

2007

Analyse de la migration d’huile dans les pompes à chaleur mono- et biétagées

Daniel Favrat, Michele Zehnder

The Laboratory of Industrial Energy systems has evaluated a series of high performance air-water heat pump concepts with the aim to retrofit existing fuel fired boilers for residential hydronic heating systems. The results are published within the framewor ...

2003

Oil Migration on Single and Two Stage Heat Pump Systems (Calibration Tests and Process Design Phase 1)

Daniel Favrat, Michele Zehnder

The subject of this project is to develop a high performance air water heat pump which is able to be introducted in the retrofit market. The system requirements of this market are heating temperatures of 65°C, at ambient temperatures descending until -12°C ...

2001

Intube Flow Boiling of R-407C and R-407C/Oil Mixtures. Part 1: Microfin Tube

John Richard Thome, Daniel Favrat, Olivier Zürcher

Intube evaporation tests for R-407C and R-407C/oil are reported for a microfin tube. The tests were run at a nominal inlet pressure of 6.45 bar (93.5psia) at mass velocities of 100, 200 and 300 kg/m2s (73581, 147162 and 220743 lb/h ft2) over nearly the ent ...

1998

Local Flow Boiling and Pressure Drop Measurements for R134a/Oil Mixtures Part 1: Evaporating in a Microfin Tube

John Richard Thome, Daniel Favrat

Intube flow boiling experiments for refrigerant R-134a mixed with a lubricating oil are reported. The tests were run at a nominal inlet pressure of 3.4 bar over a wide range of vapor qualities at mass velocities of 100, 200 and 300 kg/m2s (73500, 147000 an ...

1997

Heat Transfer and Pressure Drop in the Dryout Region of Intube Evaporation with Refrigerant/Lubricant Mixtures.

John Richard Thome, Daniel Favrat, Olivier Zürcher

A summary of the objectives and conclusions reached in this project are: •A litterature search on post dryout heat transfer for pure refrigerants and for refrigerant-oil mixtures was performed and a comprehensive review written (Chapters 9, 10, and 11); •T ...

1996

Online Measurement of Oil Concentrations of R134a–Oil Mixtures with a Density Flowmeter

John Richard Thome, Daniel Favrat

A very high accuracy, straight vibrating tube type of density flow meter has been used online to measure oil concentraiton of flowing R-134a/oil mixtures. The calibrations covered oil concentrations from 0-6 wt.% oil over the temperature range from -9.4 to ...

1995

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