This paper treats the design and control of two hybrid source using supercapacitors, fuel cell, with and without batteries on the DC link. A fuel cell, as a slowest dynamic source in these systems (because of its auxiliaries) acts to supply the permanent energy. The supercapacitors, as a high...

The analysis of reversible radiation conversion is insightful in process optimization and provides the upper limit to performance of any conceptual device. However, in practice, irreversibilities are unavoidable and play an important role in performance optimization. The finite absorption of a...

Thermal energy storage is essential in solar cooling applications due to intermittent and uncontrollable availability of solar energy. Various technologies are available for low temperature energy storage. In the present work, a solar-assisted ejector cooling system with latent heat cold storage...

The vapor-compression refrigeration systems have been one of the essential energy conversion systems for humankind and exhausting huge amounts of energy nowadays. Surrounding the energy efficiency promotion of the systems, there are lots of effectual optimization methods but mainly relied on...

Polygeneration systems are commonly found in chemical and energy industry. These systems often involve chemical conversions and energy conversions. Studies of these systems are interdisciplinary, mainly involving fields of chemical engineering, energy engineering, environmental science, and...

The gaming and hospitality sector has been expanding rapidly in recent years. Concurrently energy consumption in this sector has surged significantly. This paper reviews the literature on the relationship between electricity consumption and economic growth and introduces the 4-parameter logistic...

This paper assesses the steady-state performance of cascaded IMs (induction motors) operating under voltage unbalance. Small sizes induction motors are connected in cascade instead of one big size induction motor to improve the electromagnetic system and to make the energy conversion process...

Energy conversion for conjugate conduction, convection and radiation analysis have been performed for free convection heat transfer with radiation effect of a steady laminar boundary-layer flow that pass a non-linearly flow field over extrusion stretching sheet by two kinds of boundary-layer...

The pulse tube engine represents the thermodynamic inversion of the pulse tube refrigerator used in cryogenic cooling applications. It has a high potential to be used as a prime mover for the conversion of low grade waste heat into mechanical or electrical energy. This paper describes an...

The pulse tube engine is a simple heat engine based on the pulse tube process. Due to its simplicity it has a high potential to be applicable in waste heat usage and energy harvesting purposes. In this work, mathematical and experimental design tools are developed to study a pressurized...