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Steady-state performance evaluation and energy assessment of a complete membrane-based liquid desiccant dehumidification system (2019)
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Bai, H., Zhu, J., Chen, X., Chu, J., Cui, Y., & Yan, Y. (2020). Steady-state performance evaluation and energy assessment of a complete membrane-based liquid desiccant dehumidification system. Applied Energy, 258, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apenergy.2019.114082

A complete membrane-based liquid desiccant dehumidification system is investigated under the steady operating condition, which mainly consists of a dehumidifier, a regenerator, three heat exchangers, a cold and a hot water supply units. A finite diff... Read More about Steady-state performance evaluation and energy assessment of a complete membrane-based liquid desiccant dehumidification system.

Effects of rotation angle and metal foam on natural convection of nanofluids in a cavity under an adjustable magnetic field (2019)
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Qi, C., Tang, J., Ding, Z., Yan, Y., Guo, L., & Ma, Y. (2019). Effects of rotation angle and metal foam on natural convection of nanofluids in a cavity under an adjustable magnetic field. International Communications in Heat and Mass Transfer, 109, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.icheatmasstransfer.2019.104349

© 2019 Elsevier Ltd To investigate the natural convection heat transfer of Fe3O4-water nanofluids in a rectangular cavity under an adjustable magnetic field, two experimental systems are established. Meanwhile, several factors, such as nanoparticle m... Read More about Effects of rotation angle and metal foam on natural convection of nanofluids in a cavity under an adjustable magnetic field.

Effects of turbulator with round hole on the thermo-hydraulic performance of nanofluids in a triangle tube (2019)
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Qi, C., Fan, F., Pan, Y., Liu, M., & Yan, Y. (2020). Effects of turbulator with round hole on the thermo-hydraulic performance of nanofluids in a triangle tube. International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer, 146, 1-23. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijheatmasstransfer.2019.118897

© 2019 Elsevier Ltd For investigating the thermal and hydraulic characteristics of water-based SiO2 nanofluids in a triangular tube with different turbulators, an experimental system has been designed and verified in this paper. The effects of differ... Read More about Effects of turbulator with round hole on the thermo-hydraulic performance of nanofluids in a triangle tube.

Experimental study on the flow and heat transfer characteristics of nanofluids in double-tube heat exchangers based on thermal efficiency assessment (2019)
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Qi, C., Luo, T., Liu, M., Fan, F., & Yan, Y. (2019). Experimental study on the flow and heat transfer characteristics of nanofluids in double-tube heat exchangers based on thermal efficiency assessment. Energy Conversion and Management, 197, 1-27. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.enconman.2019.111877

Thermal performance and pressure drop of TiO2-H2O nanofluids in double-tube heat exchangers are investigated. The influence of the thermal fluid (water) volume flow rates (qv = 1–5 L/min), nanoparticle mass frictions (ω = 0.0%, 0.1%, 0.3% and 0.5%),... Read More about Experimental study on the flow and heat transfer characteristics of nanofluids in double-tube heat exchangers based on thermal efficiency assessment.

The micro?/nano?PCMs for thermal energy storage systems: A state of art review (2019)
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Arshad, A., Jabbal, M., Yan, Y., & Darkwa, J. (2019). The micro?/nano?PCMs for thermal energy storage systems: A state of art review. International Journal of Energy Research, 43(11), 5572-5620. https://doi.org/10.1002/er.4550

With advancement in technology, the nanotechnology, various thermal energy storage (TES) materials have been invented and modified with promising thermal transport properties. The solid–liquid phase change materials (PCMs) have been extensively used... Read More about The micro?/nano?PCMs for thermal energy storage systems: A state of art review.

Effect of corrugation pitch on thermo-hydraulic performance of nanofluids in corrugated tubes of heat exchanger system based on exergy efficiency (2019)
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Wang, G., Qi, C., Liu, M., Li, C., Yan, Y., & Liang, L. (2019). Effect of corrugation pitch on thermo-hydraulic performance of nanofluids in corrugated tubes of heat exchanger system based on exergy efficiency. Energy Conversion and Management, 186, 51-65. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.enconman.2019.02.046

© 2019 Elsevier Ltd In this article, water and TiO2-H2O nanofluids are used as heat exchange mediums. The heat transfer and resistance coefficient of corrugated tubes with different corrugation pitches are studied by experimental method. The economy... Read More about Effect of corrugation pitch on thermo-hydraulic performance of nanofluids in corrugated tubes of heat exchanger system based on exergy efficiency.

Performance of supersonic steam ejectors considering the nonequilibrium condensation phenomenon for efficient energy utilisation (2019)
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Yang, Y., Zhu, X., Yan, Y., Ding, H., & Wen, C. (2019). Performance of supersonic steam ejectors considering the nonequilibrium condensation phenomenon for efficient energy utilisation. Applied Energy, 242, 157-167. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apenergy.2019.03.023

Supersonic ejectors are of great interest for various industries as they can improve the quality of the low-grade heat source in an eco-friendly and sustainable way. However, the impact of steam condensation on the supersonic ejector performances is... Read More about Performance of supersonic steam ejectors considering the nonequilibrium condensation phenomenon for efficient energy utilisation.

Synthesis of microcapsules for carbon capture via needle-based droplet microfluidics (2019)
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Yew, M., Ren, Y., Koh, K. S., Sun, C., Snape, C., & Yan, Y. (2019). Synthesis of microcapsules for carbon capture via needle-based droplet microfluidics. Energy Procedia, 160, 443-450. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.egypro.2019.02.179

“Off-the-shelf” devices have attracted much consideration lately, especially in emulsions production in droplet-based microfluidics. While many simple and cost-effective designs have been proposed and demonstrated, the functionability of these purpor... Read More about Synthesis of microcapsules for carbon capture via needle-based droplet microfluidics.

Numerical study on inertial effects on liquid-vapor flow using lattice Boltzmann method (2019)
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Lei, S., Shi, Y., Yan, Y., & Zhang, X. (2019). Numerical study on inertial effects on liquid-vapor flow using lattice Boltzmann method. Energy Procedia, 160, 428-435. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.egypro.2019.02.177

Liquid-vapor flow in porous media is studied in this article. To fulfill this goal, a double-distribution-function lattice Boltzmann (LB) model is proposed based on the separate-phase governing equations at the representative elementary volume (REV)... Read More about Numerical study on inertial effects on liquid-vapor flow using lattice Boltzmann method.

A review on graphene based nanofluids: preparation, characterization and applications (2019)
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Arshad, A., Jabbal, M., Yan, Y., & Reay, D. (2019). A review on graphene based nanofluids: preparation, characterization and applications. Journal of Molecular Liquids, 279, 444-484. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.molliq.2019.01.153

A wide range of heat transfer systems require efficient heat transfer management from source to sink and vice versa. Over the last decade, graphene nanoparticles, matrix nanofluids have been one of the most investigated nanoparticles for a wide range... Read More about A review on graphene based nanofluids: preparation, characterization and applications.

An efficient approach to separate CO2 using supersonic flows for carbon capture and storage (2019)
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Wen, C., Karvounis, N., Honore Walther, J., Yan, Y., Feng, Y., Yang, Y., & Yang, Y. (2019). An efficient approach to separate CO2 using supersonic flows for carbon capture and storage. Applied Energy, 238, 311-319. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apenergy.2019.01.062

The mitigation of CO2 emissions is an effective measure to solve the climate change issue. In the present study, we propose an alternative approach for CO2 capture by employing supersonic flows. For this purpose, we first develop a computational flui... Read More about An efficient approach to separate CO2 using supersonic flows for carbon capture and storage.