Empirical Study of an Air-to-Air Heat Pipe Heat Exchanger in Tropical Climates

Abstract

This article presents the empirical study of a heat pipe heat exchanger that was directly experiencing the ambient tropical air in its evaporator section. The performance of the heat pipe heat exchanger was monitored during two weeks of operation to determine the performance curves. The temperature of return air was controlled at about 22°C as the representative temperature of inside air, and a face velocity of 2 m/s on the heat pipe heat exchanger coil was established for this purpose. It was found that for the present investigation, the heat pipe heat exchanger can pay for itself in 1.5 years.     

Internal Flow Patterns on Heat Transfer Performance of a Closed-Loop Oscillating Heat Pipe with Check Valves

This article presents the experimental results of an evaluation of the influence of internal flow patterns on the heat transfer performance of a closed-loop oscillating heat pipe with check valves. It was found that the internal flow patterns could be classified according to four flow patterns: dispersed bubble flow, bubble flow, slug flow, and annular flow, respectively. The main regime of each flow pattern can be determined from a flow pattern map. The map can be used to predict the trend of the heat transfer rate in the closed-loop oscillating heat pipe with check valves.     

Wave propagation analysis in buried pipe conveying fluid

A study of wave propagation in buried pipe conveying fluid is presented in the paper. The Flüggle shell model is adopted for pipe and surrounding solid is modeled as elastic matrix by using Winkle model. Wave dispersion curves of a buried vacant pipe and a pipe conveying fluid are obtained numerically by considering coupling conditions. Results show that wave velocity exhibits sharp drop points in dispersion curves, and remains to an identical values before and after the points for both of vacant pipe and pipe conveying fluid. Effects of wall thickness, elastic matrix properties and fluid velocity are also discussed.     

热粘性对发动机排气管道中噪声传播的影响

声波在气体中传播时,气体的热粘性效应会使声波产生一定程度的衰减,且气体的声吸收系数随温度的升高而增大。由于发动机的排气温度较高,热粘性效应引起的排气管道中的噪声衰减应加以考虑。基于准平面波理论,首次计算了考虑热粘性效应时不同温度、流速和管道尺寸下排气管道中的传递损失,分析了各参数对管道中噪声衰减的影响。结果表明,随着温度和频率的升高热粘性声衰减增强,而气流流速和管道直径的增加会降低直管中的热粘性声衰减。对于简单膨胀腔,传递损失的预测结果表明,热粘性效应使通过频率处的声衰减有所改善。     

Development and characterization of bottom-viewed inductively coupled plasma-atomic emission spectrometry

In bottom-viewed inductively coupled plasma-atomic emission spectrometry (BV-ICP-AES), emission from the central channel of the plasma is measured axially from the bottom of the plasma. A straight quartz tube was used as a hollow light pipe (HLP) to collect plasma emission in this study. The HLP also serves as an injector for aerosols transport and injection into the ICP. The optical characteristics of HLPs with the original reflective surface and roughened outer surface are reported. The roughened HLP is effective in rejecting light beams that are not in line with the HLP. The transmission efficiency of the HLP, however, is high (> 70%) for light beams from a source that has the same dimension as the entrance of the HLP and is flush with the HLP. The HLP is effective in rejecting background emission from the core of the plasma that encircles the plasma central channel and yet efficient in light collection from the central channel of the plasma.     

Dispersion and attenuation by transmission,reflection, and mode conversion in welded pipes

Torsional wave dispersion and attenuation in an open empty welded pipe are determined from a multi-receiver position reflection experiment. The fundamental torsional wave is dominantly reflected at the free end and the converted non-axisymmetric flexural modes are naturally attenuated. The resulting phase velocity contours are in agreement with theoretical predictions. The transmission losses are quantified and compared to those reflective elements associated with end and weld reflection. At any reflective node, the incident wave is split between back and forward preserved mode scattering (“reflection/transmission”), conversion to other modes plus energy lost by absorption. The ratios for each element are quantified.     

Abnormality in using cyclic fatigue for ranking static fatigue induced slow crack growth behavior of polyethylene pipe grade resins

Slow crack growth behavior in polyethylene pipe grade resins were studied using both static fatigue (stress-rupture) and cyclic fatigue tests. This was done to better understand the applicability of cyclic fatigue in the prediction of slow crack growth ranking determined from the static fatigue test. In all polyethylene pipe grade resins tested at 80 °C, reduced crack growth failure times were exhibited when the cyclic fatigue test was employed. However, when applied to rank the resins through their slow crack failure times, the cyclic fatigue results did not always confirm those obtained from the static fatigue test. That is, in some cases, a resin with higher slow crack resistance ranking (longer failure times) than another resin in static fatigue exhibited lower ranking (shorter failure times) in the cyclic fatigue test. This abnormality of reversal in ranking is not a general observation but does occur. Based on the data obtained so far, when resins with smaller differences between static fatigue and cyclic fatigue slow crack growth failure times are compared with those resins having larger differences, the chances of correctly predicting the ranking obtained from static fatigue using cyclic fatigue tend to decrease. Hence, it is suggested that one needs to practice caution when using cyclic fatigue to predict the static fatigue ranking of resins for slow cracking resistance. Some insight into the cause of such abnormality is discussed with reference to creep-fatigue interactions.     

非牛顿流体在环管内的不定常旋转流

本文研究幂律非牛顿流体在环管内的不定常旋转流。该方程是一非线性方程,在部分因子的稳态近似假设之下,方程被线性化,用Laplace积分变换法我们获得了问题的解。文中给出了几组解曲线,它反映了角向速度的时间演化规律与空间分布特征。另外我们专门研究了幂律指数对流场的影响,该参数的敏感性具有一定的数值界限。这一结果,在有关的工程设计中具有重要的意义。     

HARMONIC SOLUTIONS OF SOME SECOND-ORDER NONLINEAR EQUATIONS UNDER A PERIODIC FORCE

In this paper we prove some theorems on the existence of harmonic solutions of somesecond-order nonlinear equations under a periodic force.These theorems extend relevantresults in refs.[1]-[8].     

测量透明管壁厚的理论研究

透明管（如玻璃管）壁厚几何尺寸的公差大小是玻管生产中产品质量优劣的重要指标之一;因此透明管的壁厚测量的精度尤为重要。根据光矢量场的电磁场理论仔细分析了透明管在平面光波中的透射和反射的光学特性;并研究其能量分布。用ＣＣＤ作接收器件,进行非接触测量实验系统实验,将理论值与实验值相比较,提出了精确测量透明管壁厚的可行性方法