Heat Transfer in Energy Conversion Systems

• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Basel, Switzerland MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute 2021
• Subjects: Research and information: general; Technology: general issues; artificial ground freezing; axial permanent magnet coupling (APMC); Baltic Sea Region; chip integration; combustor; contact angle; cooling system; DH network; district heating; drying; eddy current; electrical power; electrode; energy analysis; energy efficiency; entropy generation; exergy analysis; finite element method (FEM); GEO heating; heat transfer; hexagonal heat exchanger; high temperature proton exchange membrane fuel cell; hydrophilic and hydrophobic; induction heating; industrial waste heat recovery; lumped-parameter thermal network (LPTN); magnetic heating; metro in Napoli; microfluidics; microwave heating; multiphase model; multispecies model; nanofluid; Navier-Stokes simulation; numerical modeling; organic rankine cycle; output performance; plate heat exchanger; railway; resistance heating; safety of rail traffic; shielded metal arc welding; silicon; smart asset management; smart grid; start-up characteristics; stock-rail; switch-rail; temperature distribution; thermal analysis; thermal management; thermodynamic modeling; thermodynamics; thermoelectric generator; Thermosyphon; turbulent Prandtl approaches; turnouts; underground station; viscous dissipation; waste heat recovery; welding spatter; welding time
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 In recent years, the scientific community's interest towards efficient energy conversion systems has significantly increased. One of the reasons is certainly related to the change in the temperature of the planet, which appears to have increased by 0.76 °C with respect to pre-industrial levels, according to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), and this trend has not yet been stopped. The European Union considers it vital to prevent global warming from exceeding 2 °C with respect to pre-industrial levels, since this phenomenon has been proven to result in irreversible and potentially catastrophic changes. These climate changes are mainly caused by the emissions of greenhouse gasses related to human activities, and can be drastically reduced by employing energy systems, for both heating and cooling of buildings and for power production, characterized by high efficiency levels and/or based on renewable energy sources. This Special Issue, published in the journal Energies, includes 12 contributions from across the world, including a wide range of applications, such as HT-PEMFC, district heating systems, a thermoelectric generator for industrial waste, artificial ground freezing, nanofluids, and others.