In this study, a kind of shape-stabilized phase change material (PCM) was adopted for constructing heat storage condensers. And a novel household refrigerator equipped with the heat storage condensers was setup based on an ordinary double-door three-star compartment refrigerator. The...

The dynamic model of a novel household refrigerator with SSPCM (shape-stabilized phase change material) heat storage condenser presented in this paper were established and agreed well with the experiment. By simulation, the coefficient of performance is increased about 19% by a continuous heat...

Spray cooling is an effective method for dissipating high heat fluxes in the field of electronics thermal control. In this study, experiments were performed with distilled water as a test liquid to study the spray cooling heat transfer in non-boiling regime. A Phase Doppler Anemometry (PDA) was...

Steam injection technique is one of the most important methods for enhancing the heavy oil production. Evaluating the reliability of steam injection projects requires the investigation of the heat transfer in the wellbore and the surrounding formation. In this study, a new formation...

Oil reservoir thermal properties not only play an important role in steam injection well heat transfer, but also are the basic parameters for evaluating the oil saturation in reservoir. In this study, for estimating reservoir thermal properties, a novel heat and mass transfer model of steam...

In this study, a test system for spray cooling, in which the heating surface temperatures were simultaneously measured by thermocouples and an infrared imager, was set up. A mathematical model of spray cooling heat transfer characteristics was presented based on the fundamentals of dynamics and...

Formation and reservoir of steam injection well thermal properties are important parameters for evaluating thermal efficiency of thermal recovery process. Oil saturation of reservoir is also a crucial criterion for evaluating exploitation value of oil field. This study firstly presents a layered...

Geothermal power generation from abandoned oil wells is a new way to utilize geothermal energy. The organic Rankine cycle is used for exploiting geothermal energy from abandoned oil wells efficiently. The investigation on influences of working fluids on the power generation efficiency is...