Concentrating solar power (CSP) plants have been widely commercialized for generating electricity from solar energy. Thermal energy storage (TES) systems have been deployed as a key component in CSP plants for resolving the supply-demand gap during…
This paper reviews cascaded or multiple phase change materials (PCMs) approach to provide a fundamental understanding of their thermal behaviors, the performance in terms of heat transfer uniformity, and the influence of input parameters and…
Bionics provides a positive and beneficial impact on the development of various materials and systems, which has been widely used in energy storage, heat transfer enhancement, and solar thermochemical reactions. In this paper, the idea of heat…
In crude oil refineries, fouling in heat exchangers and heat exchanger networks represents one the most complex and challenging issues. Its occurrence produces major impacts in thermal, hydraulic and economic performance on every heat transfer…
The liquefaction process is one of the key technologies of offshore FLNG device and is charged by patent protection of a few companies. Because of special offshore operational environment, the choice of FLNG liquefaction process is different from…
By means of additional specific heat capacity and momentum source terms methods, the physical and mathematical models of the heat transfer process of waxy crude oil during its static cooling in the vault tank are established. Through the numerical…