A micro-CCHP (micro combined cooling, heating and power) system is proposed and investigated. It mainly consists of an internal combustion engine (ICE), an adsorption chiller (AD), a thermal management controller (TMC) and some other devices. The waste heat of ICE is collected and managed by the...

An experimental study is conducted to investigate the performance of a low-temperature solar recuperative Rankine cycle system using working fluid R245fa. The experimental setup consisted of typical Rankine cycle components, such as throttling valves, working fluid pumps, air cooled condensers,...

The paper presents an on site experimental study of a low-temperature solar Rankine cycle system for power generation. The cycle performances of pure fluid M1 (R245fa) and zeotropic mixtures M2 (R245fa/R152a, 0.9/0.1) and M3 (R245fa/R152a, 0.7/0.3) are compared, respectively, based on the...

A strong i.i.d. representation is obtained for the product-limit estimator of the survival function based on left truncated and right censored data. This extends the result of Chao and Lo (1988, Ann. Statist.16, 661-668) for truncated data. An improved rate of the approximation is also obtained...

This article develops an algorithm for the exact forward-mode automatic evaluation of higher order partial derivatives using derivative arrays, now referred to as the FEED (Fast Efficient Evaluation of Derivatives) algorithm. Building on previous work by R. Wengert, the FEED algorithm proceeds...

The complete system of ordinary differential equations developed by Kalaba and Tesfatsion (1981) for tracking solution branches of parameterized nonlinear systems is tested using several illustrative examples. One example is the standard Ramsey optimal growth model, for which analytical...