Experimental results of the gas-hydrate R141b cool-storage process are used to study the performance of a new type gas-hydrate cool-storage system. The relations among the cooling rate of the cool-storage medium, the degree of subcooling of crystallization, the formation rate of gas-hydrate, the...

Theoretical and experimental studies were performed for a solar-ground source heat-pump (SGSHP) system with a vertical double-spiral coil (VDSC) ground heat-exchanger (GHX). The heating mode of the SGSHP system is alternated between a solar energy-source heat-pump (SSHP) and a ground-source...

Thermodynamic optimization models of gas-hydrate cool storage and cool release processes are established in this paper. The optimal temperature configuration at the sensible heat transfer stage and the optimal gas hydrate phase change rate configuration at the phase change stage in the processes...

This paper presents a comprehensive exergy analysis of three circuits and whole system of a ground-source heat pump (GSHP) for both building heating and cooling modes. The purpose is to search out the key potential energy saving components. The analytical formulae of exergy loss, exergy...

The finite-time thermodynamic performance has been studied of an endoreversible air heat-pump with constant-temperature heat-reservoirs. The heating load, the coefficient of performance (COP), and the heating-load density, i.e. the ratio of heating load to the maximum specific volume in the...

This paper presents thermodynamic optimization of an endoreversible air heat pump with variable-temperature heat reservoirs and hot- and cold-side counter-flow heat exchangers. The expressions of the heating load, the exergetic efficiency and the ecological function of the heat pump cycle are...

Based on exergy analysis of charging and discharging processes in a gas-hydrate cool storage system, the formulas for exergy efficiency at the sensible heat transfer stage and the phase change stage corresponding to gas-hydrate charging and discharging processes are obtained. Furthermore, the...

Ecological performance optimization of a generalized irreversible thermoacoustic cooler with heat resistance, heat leakage, thermal relaxation and internal dissipation, in which heat transfer between the working fluid and heat reservoirs obeys a complex generalized heat transfer law <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="ctp038ileq1" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink"/></inline-formula>, where n is...

A new model consisting of two isobaric branches connected by two straight-line branches is established to investigate the thermodynamic performance of a thermoacoustic refrigeration micro-cycle. The influence of quantum degeneracy on the dimensionless cooling load R* of the cycle is analysed...

Based on constructal theory, the disc-shaped solid–gas reactors combined heat and mass transfer are investigated in this paper. Radial- and branched-pattern of the discs are considered, and the two pattern discs are optimized based on entropy generation rate minimization. The results show that...