The importance of energy conservation in all the aspects of energy production, transportation, distribution and utilisation should not be underestimated. A special attention to that is paid since the oil crisis in 70’s of the last century. Today energy efficiency has increased considerably, but there is still a potential for Continue reading
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Tag: Thermodynamics
Experimental Campaign on a Generic Model for Fluid-Structure Interaction Studies (Mechanical Project)
Fluid-structure interactions appear in many industrial applications in the field of energy technology. As the components are more and more pushed to higher performance, taking fluid-structure interaction phenomena into account has Continue reading
Utilization of Waste Heat from Sugar Mills in Cuba for Thermally Driven Cooling (Mechanical Project)
The demand for air conditioning keeps rising, especially in developing countries where the standard of living has improved. This results in an increased consumption of electricity and puts further pressure on the Continue reading
Cross-Flow, Staggered-Tube Heat Exchanger Analysis for High Enthalpy Flows (Mechanical Project)
Cross flow heat exchangers are a fairly common apparatus employed throughout many industrial processes. For these types of systems, correlations have been extensively developed. However, there have been no correlations done for Continue reading
Decreasing Energy Use by 50% in Swedish Multifamily buildings by 2050 (Mechanical Project)
Building sector in Sweden constitutes a major part of the overall energy consumption, making up for around 40% of the total energy use. During the 60s and 70s, there was a big surge in Continue reading
Formula SAE Cooling System Design (Mechanical Project)
The overall objective of this senior project is to develop, via testing and analysis, a guided process that will aid the Cal Poly Formula SAE team in designing their cooling system. More specifically, a set of designed tests will yield the results necessary in Continue reading
A Control-Oriented 0D Model of a Turbocharger Gas Stand Including Heat Transfer (Mechanical Project)
A turbocharger’s performance is measured in a gas stand in order to provide information of the components characteristics. The measurement procedure is a Continue reading
Piezoelectrically Driven Thermoacoustic Refrigerator (Mechanical Project)
Thermoacoustic refrigeration is an emerging refrigeration technology which does not require any moving parts or harmful refrigerants in its operation. This technology uses acoustic waves to pump heat across a Continue reading
Convection and Flow Boiling in Microgaps and Porous Foam Coolers (Mechanical Project)
An open and foam-filled microgap cooler, providing direct liquid cooling for a simulated electronic/photonic component and which eliminates the problematic thermal resistance of the commonly-used Continue reading
Lucidpipe™ Power System (Civil Project)
In most gravity fed water transmission pipelines, it is desired to reduce excess pressure head to prevent undue strain on a pipeline and lower the incidence of leaks. Normally this is done with pressure reducing valves that essentially burn off this Continue reading
Investigation of JP-8 Autoignition Under Vitiated Combustion Conditions (Mechanical Project)
Limited data on jet fuel ignition and oxidation at low-O2, vitiated conditions has hindered the validation of kinetic models for combustion under such conditions.
In this study, ignition delay time experiments of JP-8 have been performed with Continue reading
Optimal Control of Hybrid Systems, with Application to Vehicle Dynamics (Mechanical Project)
Hybrid dynamical systems are common throughout the physical and computer world, and they consist of dynamical systems that contain both continuous time and discrete time dynamics. Examples of this type of system include Continue reading