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Working fluid charge reduction, part 1: CO2 fin-tube evaporator designed for light commercial appliances utilizing flow pattern based phenomenological prediction models

John Richard Thome, Jackson Braz Marcinichen

The present study focused on improving the thermal performance of CO2 evaporators while reducing their volume and thus significantly reducing the working fluid charge. To achieve this, the leading two-phase flow pattern and physically-based prediction mode ...

Elsevier Sci Ltd2016

Multi-temperature heat pumps: A literature review

Jürg Alexander Schiffmann

This review highlights the major advantages and challenges of mechanically driven heat pumps and refrigeration systems with focus on multi-temperature applications. Different design strategies are presented, including cycles with multi-stage compressors, e ...

Elsevier2016

Working fluid charge reduction. Part II: Supercritical CO2 gas cooler designed for light commercial appliances

John Richard Thome, Jackson Braz Marcinichen

The present study focused on the thermal hydraulic performance improvement of a CO2 gas cooler with the principal goal of reducing its volume, and consequently the necessary charge of the working fluid. To achieve this compactness, the leading methods for ...

Elsevier Sci Ltd2016

Multi-Temperature Heat Pumps - A Literature Review

Jürg Alexander Schiffmann

Reducing primary energy consumption by utilizing heat recovery systems has become increasingly important in industry. In many sectors, heating and cooling is required at different temperature levels at the same time. For this purpose, heat pumps are highly ...

2016

Multi-temperature heat pumps: A literature review

Jürg Alexander Schiffmann

Elsevier2016

Experimental investigation of a two-stage oil-free domestic Air/Water heat pump prototype powered by an oil-free high-speed twin-stage radial compressor rotating on gas bearings

Daniel Favrat, Jürg Alexander Schiffmann, Jean-Baptiste Carré

Domestic heat pumps have been identified as a key-technology to decrease the energy consumption of the domestic sector, which represents 29% of the world final energy consumption. Space & water heating represent more than two third of the domestic sector e ...

2016

Analysis, Synthesis and Optimization of Multiple-Effect Evaporation Systems using Mathematical Programming

François Maréchal, Maziar Kermani

Evaporation processes are used within the process industries in order to produce concentrated products by evaporating part of water from different feeds-diluted water solutions. Concentrated products can represent final products (fruit and vegetable juices ...

2016

Unified Modeling Suite for Two-Phase Flow, Convective Boiling, and Condensation in Macro- and Microchannels

John Richard Thome, Andrea Cioncolini

This paper focuses on the unified modeling suite for annular flow that the authors have developed and continue to develop. The annular flow suite currently includes models to predict the void fraction, the entrained liquid fraction, and the wall shear stre ...

Taylor & Francis Inc2016

Two-Stage Heat Pump using Oil-Free Turbocompressors – System Design and Simulation

Jürg Alexander Schiffmann, Adeel Javed

The combination of multi-stage heat pump cycles with small-scale oil-free turbocompressor technology running on gas bearings could be a promising way to increase performance in domestic and commercial heat pumps. This paper presents a novel two-stage heat ...

2016

Mechanical analyses of the waveguide flange coupling for the first confinement system of the ITER electron cyclotron upper launcher

Timothy Goodman, René Chavan, Jean-Daniel Landis, Robert Bertizzolo

The four electron cyclotron (EC) upper port antennas (or "upper launchers" -UL) will be used to drive current locally inside magnetic islands located at the q= 2 (or smaller) rational surfaces in order to stabilize neoclassical tearing modes (NTMs), as wel ...

Elsevier Science Sa2016

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