A microjet based recuperator for application in domestic micro chp

Paper presented at the 8th International Conference on Heat Transfer, Fluid Mechanics and Thermodynamics, Mauritius, 11-13 July, 2011.In the paper the original design of a compact heat exchanger with microjets producing intensification effect is presented. Its primary application is for the domestic Organic Rankine Cycle (ORC), however, the design is universal and may have numerous other applications. The technology of microjets manufacturing is an “in-house” patented design. In the present paper the idea of such a heat exchanger is shown together with the flow and thermal characteristics of the prototype. The developed prototype of heat exchanger is capable of exchanging 5 kW of thermal energy at a logarithmic mean temperature difference (LMTD) of 60 K. The total heat transfer surface equal to 0.0072 m2 leads to very significant heat fluxes. Measured overall heat transfer coefficient reaches 12000 W/m2K, which was calculated using the Wilson method. The description of the Wilson technique used for the determination of the heat transfer coefficient is also presented in the body of the text. That method seems to be, in the authors’ opinion, the only one for finding the heat transfer coefficient for such a complex heat exchanger structure. In this case measurements of wall temperatures are not possible and hence the determination of heat transfer coefficient is difficult. The results of performed measurements are satisfactory and encourage for further research of the original design.pm201

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Thermal and hydraulic phenomena in boundary layer of minijets impingement on curved surfaces

Presented work considers flow and thermal phenomena occurring during the single minijet impingement on curved surfaces, heated with a constant heat flux, as well as the array of minijets. Numerical analyses, based on the mass, momentum and energy conservation laws, were conducted, regarding single phase and two-phase simulations. Focus was placed on the proper model construction, in which turbulence and boundary layer modeling was crucial. Calculations were done for various inlet parameters. Initial single minijet results served as the basis for the main calculations, which were conducted for two jet arrays, with flat and curved heated surfaces. Such complex geometries came from the cooling systems of electrical devices, and the geometry of cylindrical heat exchanger. The results, regarding Nusselt number, heated surface temperature, turbulence kinetic energy, production of entropy and vorticity, were presented and discussed. For assumed geometrical parameters similar results were obtained

Recuperator with microjet technology as a proposal for heat recovery from low-temperature sources

A tendency to increase the importance of so-called dispersed generation, based on the local energy sources and the working systems utilizing both the fossil fuels and the renewable energy resources is observed nowadays. Generation of electricity on industrial or domestic scale together with production of heat can be obtained for example through employment of the ORC systems. It is mentioned in the EU directive 2012/27/EU for cogenerative production of heat and electricity. For such systems the crucial points are connected with the heat exchangers, which should be small in size but be able to transfer high heat fluxes. In presented paper the prototype microjet heat exchanger dedicated for heat recovery systems is introduced. Its novel construction is described together with the systematical experimental analysis of heat transfer and flow characteristics. Reported results showed high values of the overall heat transfer coefficient and slight increase in the pressure drop. The results of microjet heat exchanger were compared with the results of commercially available compact plate heat exchanger

Potential of low concentration nanofluids in heat transfer

The main purpose of conducted studies was recognition of low concentration nanofluid under the influence of magnetic field potential applications. The investigations are having fundamental character but Authors keep in mind better energy utilization through the heat transfer enhancement. The examined fluid was composed of water and Cu/CuO nanoparticles. Three temperature differences were imposed on the system. The results did not give unequivocal answer on possible utilization of studied phenomena, but there is open scene for the studies of particle-fluid interaction and flow structure. The main conclusion is that the magnetic properties of base fluid and particles are crucial for such analysis

放射線治療後22年目に血尿をみた甲状腺癌の腎転移例

他臓器の悪性腫療が腎臓に転移する例は，剖検では比較的多いが，生存中に転移が発見され臨床的に問題となることは稀れである。ことに甲状腺癌の腎転移は，1968年高安らによる報告1例のみである。最近われわれは52歳の女子で22年前に治療を受けた甲状腺乳頭状癌が左腎に弧立性に転移を来し，左腎摘除術を施行した症例を経験したので報告する。尚，本症は左腎摘除術後約1.5年目に腫瘍死したが， 24年間の全経過中, 局所リンパ節，骨，左腎，肝，筋，脳への転移が認められた。A unilateral and solitary metastatic renal tumor from the papillary adenocarcinoma of the thyroid which was initially diagnosed 22 years ago was detected in a 52-year-old Japanese woman. In this case, the primary thyroid cancer had metastasized to the regional lymph nodes and to the bone. On the extremely slow course of the disease, the tumor remained active and developed metastases to the left kidney, to the liver and to the muscle. To our knowledge, this is the second case which was clinically evaluated. Tile literature was briefly reviewed

Time performance of RGB to HSI colour space transformation methods

Present paper is a continuation of works on evaluation of red, green, blue (RGB) to hue, saturation, intensity (HSI) colour space transformation in regard to digital image processing application in optical measurements methods. HSI colour space seems to be the most suitable domain for engineering applications due to its immunity to non-uniform lightning. Previous stages referred to the analysis of various RGB to HSI colour space transformations equivalence and programming platform configuration influence on the algorithms execution. The main purpose of this step is to understand the influence of computer processor architecture on the computing time, since analysis of images requires considerable computer resources. The technical development of computer components is very fast and selection of particular processor architecture can be an advantage for fastening the image analysis and then the measurements results. In this paper the colour space transformation algorithms, their complexity and execution time are discussed. The most common algorithms were compared with the authors own one. Computing time was considered as the main criterion taking into account a technical advancement of two computer processor architectures. It was shown that proposed algorithm was characterized by shorter execution time than in reported previously results

The heat transfer and flow structure analyses of low concentration copper nanofluids in a strong magnetic field

Main aim of this paper was to analyze the influence of strong magnetic field on the enhancement or suppression of nanofluids transport processes. The second objective was to determine how the flow structure changed under the influence of a magnetic field. Analyzed diamagnetic nanofluids composed of distilled water and the copper nanoparticles of 40–60 nm size in three different concentrations (50, 500, and 1000 ppm). The experimental enclosure position in the magnet test section caused the most intricate interaction of the acting forces: the gravitational and magnetic buoyancy ones, and made the interpretation of results very difficult. The Nusselt number ratio and the thermomagnetic Rayleigh number were determined for heat transfer analysis, while the fast Fourier transform was performed for the nanofluid flow structure analysis. Spectral analysis for all examined nanofluids was presented. Influence of nanoparticles concentration was clearly visible, while the direct impact of magnetic field on the heat transfer and flow structure should be still investigated

Supramolecular biosensors based on electropolymerised pyrrole-cyclodextrin modified surfaces for antibody detection

The self-assembly of an adamantane-appended polymer bearing an antigen fragment on a polypyrrole-cyclodextrin modified surface provides a highly sensitive immunosensor with low limits of detection for celiac disease related targets. The pyrrole-carboxylic acid films were formed on the surface of gold electrodes by electropolymerisation and followed by covalent attachment of cyclodextrin units. Surface plasmon resonance measurements confirmed the role of the host/guest interactions between adamantane moieties and β-cyclodextrin hosts in the formation of the supramolecular sensor interface. Furthermore, this novel electrochemical supramolecular platform was effective in the amperometric detection of anti-gliadin antibodies in spiked serum samples with very good signal recovery

Split resonances for simultaneous detection and control measurements in a single bulk acoustic wave (BAW) sensor

A self-referenced resonator consisting of two distinct areas of the top electrode made from Mo and a thin (5-30 nm) functional Au layer is shown. The fundamental frequencies for both the shear (∼1 GHz) and longitudinal (∼2 GHz) modes are split in two, such that mass attachment on the functional layer region causes frequency shifts in only one of the resonances, allowing a new approach of using the difference between the two frequencies to be used to measure mass attachment; this reduces the importance of device-to-device variability in absolute resonant frequency as a result of device fabrication