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Experimental study of liquid optical filtration PV/T modules with different working fluids (2025)
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Cui, Y., Tian, S., & Zhu, J. (2025). Experimental study of liquid optical filtration PV/T modules with different working fluids. Renewable Energy, 246, Article 122893. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.renene.2025.122893

The working fluid influences on energy performance of a solar photovoltaic/thermal (PV/T) module are investigated experimentally, the MXene, ethylene glycol (EG) and distilled water (DIW) are considered in this study. The effects of a liquid optical... Read More about Experimental study of liquid optical filtration PV/T modules with different working fluids.

Thermoeconomic assessments and optimization of a vapour compression and an ejector integrated sCO2 trigeneration systems (2022)
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Hakan Çetin, T., & Zhu, J. (2022). Thermoeconomic assessments and optimization of a vapour compression and an ejector integrated sCO2 trigeneration systems. Sustainable Energy Technologies and Assessments, 54, Article 102832. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.seta.2022.102832

Two sCO2 trigeneration systems are proposed in this study to supply power, heating and cooling simultaneously, one is a vapour compression recuperation system (VCRS), the other is an ejector integrated recuperation system (EIRS). Their performance as... Read More about Thermoeconomic assessments and optimization of a vapour compression and an ejector integrated sCO2 trigeneration systems.

Experimental study of a membrane-based liquid desiccant dehumidifier based on internal air temperature variation (2019)
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Chu, J., Zhu, J., Bai, H., & Cui, Y. (2019). Experimental study of a membrane-based liquid desiccant dehumidifier based on internal air temperature variation. Applied Thermal Engineering, 159, Article 113936. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.applthermaleng.2019.113936

A membrane-based liquid desiccant dehumidifier with the separated air stream and liquid desiccant channels has the ability to solve its working fluid carryover problem in the traditional direct contact system. The sensible, latent, total effectivenes... Read More about Experimental study of a membrane-based liquid desiccant dehumidifier based on internal air temperature variation.

Techno-economic assessment of the horizontal geothermal heat pump systems: a comprehensive review (2019)
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Cui, Y., Zhu, J., Twaha, S., Chu, J., Bai, H., Huang, K., Chen, X., Zoras, S., & Soleimani, Z. (2019). Techno-economic assessment of the horizontal geothermal heat pump systems: a comprehensive review. Energy Conversion and Management, 191, 208-236. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.enconman.2019.04.018

Geothermal heat pump has been widely recognized as one of the promising technologies for building applications because of its high energy efficiency and low operating expense, however the high capital investment and installation costs discourage buil... Read More about Techno-economic assessment of the horizontal geothermal heat pump systems: a comprehensive review.

A comprehensive review on 2D and 3D models of vertical ground heat exchangers (2018)
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Cui, Y., Zhu, J., Twaha, S., & Riffat, S. (2018). A comprehensive review on 2D and 3D models of vertical ground heat exchangers. Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, 94, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rser.2018.05.063

The ground source heat pumps (GSHPs) have been extensively applied to commercial and residential buildings owing to their high-energy efficiencies and low running costs. The key component of the GSHP is a ground heat exchanger (GHE). The state-of-the... Read More about A comprehensive review on 2D and 3D models of vertical ground heat exchangers.

A zeolite 13X/magnesium sulfate–water sorption thermal energy storage device for domestic heating (2018)
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Xu, S., Lemington, Q., Wang, R., & Zhu, J. (2018). A zeolite 13X/magnesium sulfate–water sorption thermal energy storage device for domestic heating. Energy Conversion and Management, 171, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.enconman.2018.05.077

A sorption thermal energy storage (TES) device for domestic heating is presented in this article. The TES device adopts the new design scenario with valve-less adsorber and separate reservoir to eliminate the large-diameter vacuum valve for vapor flo... Read More about A zeolite 13X/magnesium sulfate–water sorption thermal energy storage device for domestic heating.

Performance evaluation of a membrane-based flat-plate heat and mass exchanger used for liquid desiccant regeneration (2018)
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Bai, H., Zhu, J., Chen, Z., Chu, J., & Liu, Y. (2018). Performance evaluation of a membrane-based flat-plate heat and mass exchanger used for liquid desiccant regeneration. Applied Thermal Engineering, 139, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.applthermaleng.2018.05.011

Liquid desiccant dehumidification system has gained much progress recently for its considerable energy saving potential without liquid water condensation. Within the system, regeneration is of great importance since diluted desiccant solution after d... Read More about Performance evaluation of a membrane-based flat-plate heat and mass exchanger used for liquid desiccant regeneration.

State-of-art in modelling methods of membrane-based liquid desiccant heat and mass exchanger: a comprehensive review (2018)
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Bai, H., Zhu, J., Chen, Z., & Chu, J. (2018). State-of-art in modelling methods of membrane-based liquid desiccant heat and mass exchanger: a comprehensive review. International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer, 125, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijheatmasstransfer.2018.04.100

Air dehumidification is of vital importance in building air conditioning and production safety. Semi-permeable membrane module is a novel heat and mass exchanger, which separates the air and liquid desiccant to overcome desiccant droplet carry-over p... Read More about State-of-art in modelling methods of membrane-based liquid desiccant heat and mass exchanger: a comprehensive review.

CFD assessment of multiple energy piles for ground source heat pump in heating mode (2018)
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Cui, Y., & Zhu, J. (2018). CFD assessment of multiple energy piles for ground source heat pump in heating mode. Applied Thermal Engineering, 139, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.applthermaleng.2018.04.073

Three-dimensional (3D) computational fluid dynamics (CFD) model of ground source heat pump (GSHP) with multiple energy piles (EPs) is developed to investigate the system heating performances under continuous and intermittent operating conditions, the... Read More about CFD assessment of multiple energy piles for ground source heat pump in heating mode.

Natural convection heat transfer of a straight-fin heat sink (2018)
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Meng, X., Zhu, J., Wei, X., & Yan, Y. (2018). Natural convection heat transfer of a straight-fin heat sink. International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer, 123, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijheatmasstransfer.2018.03.002

The influence of mounting angle on heat dissipation performance of a heat sink under natural convection condition is investigated in this paper by numerical simulation and experimental test. It is found that the heat sink achieves the highest cooling... Read More about Natural convection heat transfer of a straight-fin heat sink.