Publications related to Condenser (laboratory)

Numerical analysis of apparatus-induced dispersion for density-dependent solute transport in porous media

The effects of apparatus-induced dispersion on nonuniform, density-dependent flow in a cylindrical soil column were investigated using a finite-element model. To validate the model, the results with an analytical solution and laboratory column test data we ...

2023

Progress in Unraveling Atmospheric New Particle Formation and Growth Across the Arctic

Julia Schmale, Andrea Baccarini

New particle formation (NPF) and growth can be an important source of cloud condensation nuclei for the Arctic atmosphere, where cloud formation is sensitive to their availability. Low-level clouds influence the Arctic energy budget, and likely contribute ...

2021

Simulation and experimental validation of pulsating heat pipes

John Richard Thome, Jackson Braz Marcinichen, Philippe Aubin, Filippo Cataldo

The one-dimensional transient numerical code of JJ Cooling Innovation has been significantly improved to simulate the thermal/hydraulic performance of pulsating heat pipes (PHPs). Using a mechanistic approach, the liquid slug and vapor plug flows and their ...

PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD2021

Low‐Volatility Vapors and New Particle Formation Over the Southern Ocean During the Antarctic Circumnavigation Expedition

Julia Schmale, Andrea Baccarini, Robin Lewis Modini

During summer, the Southern Ocean is largely unaffected by anthropogenic emissions, which makes this region an ideal place to investigate marine natural aerosol sources and processes. A better understanding of natural aerosol is key to constrain the preind ...

2021

Sulfuric acid condensation sink calculated for the Arctic Ocean 2018 expedition

Julia Schmale, Andrea Baccarini

The condensation sink is a measure of the sulfuric acid lifetime against condensation on preexisting aerosol particles. Dimensionally it is the inverse of a time (reported in per second) and it is calculated starting from the aerosol size distribution. A l ...

2020

Scale limitations of gas bearing supported turbocompressors for vapor compression cycles

Jürg Alexander Schiffmann

An analysis of single-stage centrifugal compressors supported on dynamic, gas lubricated bearings for driving vapor compression cycles suggests that the maximum feasible compressor power is limited, primarily by the bearing load capacity, in the range from ...

2020

Experimental Performance of Completely Passive Single and Recirculating Loop Thermosyphon Cooling Systems using Low GWP R1234ze and R1234yf

John Richard Thome

This paper proposes a novel concept for a loop thermosyphon cooling system, designed for the transistor module of a transformer. The thermosyphon uses a free convection cooled condenser, making the system completely passive, i.e. no energy consumption is n ...

IEEE2019

Enhancing Two-Phase Cooling Efficiency through Thermal- Aware Workload Mapping for Power-Hungry Servers

David Atienza Alonso, Marina Zapater Sancho, Arman Iranfar, Ali Pahlevan

The power density and, consequently, power hungriness of server processors is growing by the day. Traditional air cooling systems fail to cope with such high heat densities, whereas single-phase liquid-cooling still requires high mass flowrate, high pumpin ...

IEEE and ACM Press2019

Atomic Layer Deposition on Dispersed Materials in Liquid Phase by Stoichiometrically Limited Injections

Jeremy Luterbacher, Benjamin Pierre Le Monnier, Farzaneh Talebkeikhah, Frederick Georges Wells

Atomic layer deposition (ALD) is a well‐established vapor‐phase technique for depositing thin films with high conformality and atomically precise control over thickness. Its industrial development has been largely confined to wafers and low‐surface‐area ma ...

Wiley2019

Identification of optimal operating strategy of direct air-cooling condenser for Rankine cycle based power plants

François Maréchal, Ligang Wang, Xiang Li

Direct air-cooling condenser has attracted significant attention in the last decade due to the employment of Rankine-cycle based power plants from renewable (e.g., concentrated solar) or traditional (e.g., coal) heat sources in water-scarce areas. The opti ...

2018

A data-driven model for the air-cooling condenser of large-scale coal-fired power plants based on data reconciliation and support vector regression

François Maréchal, Ivan Daniel Kantor, Ligang Wang, Jean-Loup Sylvain Robineau, Xiang Li

The performance of a direct air-cooling condenser under operation is rather complicated, as it is interactively affected by the operating conditions (e.g., the mode of air fans) and ambient conditions (e.g., temperature and wind speed). To understand the c ...

2018

Two-Phase Flow Simulations within Plate Heat Exchangers

John Richard Thome, Raffaele Luca Amalfi

Plate heat exchangers are widely adopted in many industrial applications, such as ventilation, air conditioning, heat transfer processes, heat pumps and cooling of hydrodynamic circuits in engines. They provide higher heat transfer performance, compactness ...

IEEE2018

Reducing Humidity Response of Gas Sensors for Medical Applications: Use of Spark Discharge Synthesis of Metal Oxide Nanoparticles

Thomas Maeder

The application of gas sensors in breath analysis is an important trend in the early diagnostics of different diseases including lung cancer, ulcers, and enteric infection. However, traditional methods of synthesis of metal oxide gas-sensing materials for ...

MDPI2018

Supported photocatalysts for model pollutant degradation and bacterial inactivation : preparation, evaluation and characterization

Laura Victoria Suárez Murillo

Water quality and bacterial infections are directly related to human health and wellbeing, thus waste water treatment is a necessary procedure for avoiding disturbances to ecosystems and for assuring human health. Furthermore, bacterial contamination in wa ...

EPFL2017

Flow boiling data and prediction method for enhanced boiling tubes and tube bundles with R-134a and R-236fa including a comparison with falling film evaporation

John Richard Thome, Eugene van Rooyen

New enhanced boiling tubes from Wolverine Tube Inc. (Turbo-B5) and Wieland-Werke AG (Gewa-B5) were investigated using R-134a and R-236fa as test fluids. The tests were done at saturation temperatures of 5 and 15 degrees C, mass flow rates from 4 to 35 kg m ...

Elsevier Sci Ltd2014

Energy efficiency improvement by applying thermodynamic optimization of distillation columns in the site scale integration

François Maréchal, Nasibeh Pouransari

This study aims to improve the energy efficiency of an industrial site by applying the thermodynamic analysis of distillation columns together with the total site integration (TSI). Several methods have been proposed in the literatures for the thermodynami ...

2013

Falling film evaporation on enhanced tubes, part 1: Experimental results for pool boiling, onset-of-dryout and falling film evaporation

John Richard Thome, Marcel Christians

Horizontal falling film evaporators have the potential of displacing flooded evaporators as the standard in the refrigeration industry due to compelling advantages, such as smaller refrigerant charge and lower pressure drop. However, there is a need to imp ...

2012

Entrained liquid fraction prediction in adiabatic and evaporating annular two-phase flow

John Richard Thome, Andrea Cioncolini

A new method to predict the entrained liquid fraction in annular two-phase flow is presented. The underlying experimental database contains 2460 data points collected from 38 different literature studies for 8 different gas-liquid or vapor-liquid combinati ...

2012

Spontaneous Pattern Formation in a Polariton Condensate

Benoît Marie Joseph Deveaud, Timothy Chi Hin Liew, Konstantinos Lagoudakis, Francesco Manni

Exciton-polariton condensation can be regarded as a self-organization phenomenon, where phase ordering is established among particles in the system. In such condensed systems, further ordering can occur in the particle density distribution, under particula ...

2011

Boiling on a Tube Bundle : Heat Transfer, Pressure Drop and Flow Patterns

Eugene van Rooyen

The complexity of two-phase flow boiling on a tube bundle presents many challenges to the understanding of the physical phenomena taking place. It is important to quantify these numerous heat flow mechanisms in order to better describe the performance of t ...

EPFL2011