Recycling municipal solid waste utilizing gasification technology: a case study

Journal of Thermal Analysis and Calorimetry - Reliable, affordable, and clean energy supply is of considerable importance for the society, economy, and the environment. Renewable energy sources can...     

Active and passive control of a galloping cylinder with heat transfer

Journal of Thermal Analysis and Calorimetry - Wind energy caused the transverse vibration of the beam, and the mechanical energy of vibration is transferred to electrical charge by piezoelectric...     

Numerical simulation of carbon dioxide sorption circulating fluidized bed used in solid oxide fuel cell

Journal of Thermal Analysis and Calorimetry - Today world people are aware of the negative effect of carbon dioxide on climate and life quality. Enormous researches are performed to reduce carbon...     

A smoothed particle hydrodynamics approach for numerical simulation of nano-fluid flows

Journal of Thermal Analysis and Calorimetry - Nano-fluidic flow and heat transfer around a horizontal cylinder at Reynolds numbers up to 250 are investigated by using weakly compressible smoothed...     

Optimal design of microphone array in a planar circular configuration by genetic algorithm enhanced beamforming

Journal of Thermal Analysis and Calorimetry - This paper investigated an optimized-microphone array configuration based on a genetic algorithm (GA) to improve the map resolution of output...     

Analysis and numerical modeling of subcooled boiling in energy systems in vertical porous channel

Journal of Thermal Analysis and Calorimetry - Boiling phenomena are interested in many fields of engineering such as piping and cooling electronic systems. Usually, the phase change through the...     

Bimetallic nanoparticles as a novel chemiresistor coating

Here, we describe the chemiresistive sensing of some volatile organic compounds with a novel film of chemically synthesized Au–Pt bimetallic nanoparticles (NPs) stabilized with 11-mercaptoundecanoic acid. The chemiresistive sensing properties were measured over a concentration range of 1.4–250 mg L^?1 for methanol, ethanol, ethyl acetate and acetone vapours and the responses were compared with Au and Pt monometallic nanoparticles. It is observed that the sensitivity of bimetallic nanoparticles is increased about 60 % in exposure to methanol and ethanol vapours, but there are no changes in the sensitivity to the other tested vapours. In addition, the detection limit is improved about 80–100 % for all tested vapours in bimetallic nanoparticles compared to AuNPs and 20–30 % compared to PtNPs.     

Carbon monoxide reduction in solid oxide fuel cell–mini gas turbine hybrid power system

In this paper, combined heat and power frameworks employing solid oxide fuel cell power module and a small-scale gas turbine are presented. The offered system is utilized as heat and power supply for residential consumers with a carbon dioxide sorption circulating fluidized bed. As well a favorable solution for the high penalties associated with CO₂ capture and reuse of the CO contents is offered. The combined heat and power system considered by a different arrangement in order to high proficiency, controllability, heat recovery and high capacity of energy. In the proposed system, the unburned product from the solid oxide fuel cell is re-extracted and utilized as a fuel source. The suggested system is analyzed by the first and second law of thermodynamics. During this study, comprehensive calculations of chemistry and thermal within the fuel cell are performed to get accurate results. The impact of various parameters, for example fuel and oxidant rate, carbon dioxide removal, operating pressure, compressor parameter on work and heat output of the cycle as well as the discharge of carbon dioxide contamination, is investigated. The optimal pressure ratio of the compressor to minimize the carbon dioxide production is found.