Publications related to Thermal expansion valve

DIET Controller: Dynamic Indoor Environment using Deep Reinforcement Learning

Heating, Ventilation, and Air Conditioning (HVAC) Systems utilize much energy, accounting for 40% of total building energy use. The temperatures in buildings are commonly held within narrow limits, leading to higher energy use. Measurements from office bui ...

EPFL2023

Microchannel cooling for the LHCb VELO Upgrade I

Alessandro Mapelli, Giulia Romagnoli, Victor Coco

The LHCb VELO Upgrade I, currently being installed for the 2022 start of LHC Run 3, uses silicon microchannel coolers with internally circulating bi-phase CO2 for thermal control of hybrid pixel modules operating in vacuum. This is the largest scale applic ...

ELSEVIER2022

Hybrid Two-Phase Cooling Technology For Next-Generation Servers: Thermal Performance Analysis

John Richard Thome, Jackson Braz Marcinichen, Filippo Cataldo, Raffaele Luca Amalfi

This paper advances the work presented at ITHERM 2020 where a novel passive two-phase technology was introduced for more efficient cooling of datacenters compared to air-based cooling solutions (e.g. In-Room, In-Row, etc.). The proposed hybrid two-phase co ...

IEEE2021

System for co2 capture from internal combustion engine

François Maréchal, Shivom Sharma

System (2) for CO2 capture from a combustion engine (1) comprising an exhaust gas flow circuit (6) having an inlet end fluidly connected to an exhaust of the combustion engine, a heat exchanger circuit (12), a primary exhaust gas heat exchanger (H1) for tr ...

2020

Investigation of femtosecond laser-tuned thermomechanical properties of fused silica

Pieter Vlugter

The thermomechanical properties of materials are among the most important properties for designing precision instruments, in particular for devices seeking high-dimensional stability, invariant temperature-elastic properties or low thermoelastic losses. De ...

EPFL2020

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

Thermal Engineering of Metal-Organic Frameworks for Adsorption Applications: A Molecular Simulation Perspective

Venkat Kapil

Thermal engineering of metal-organic frameworks for adsorption-based applications is very topical in view of their industrial potential, in particular, since heat management and thermal stability have been identified as important obstacles. Hence, a fundam ...

AMER CHEMICAL SOC2019

Multi-objective optimization of turbo-ORC systems for waste heat recovery on passenger car engines

Jürg Alexander Schiffmann, Kévin Rosset, Eliott Philippe Guenat, Violette Mounier

Waste heat recovery from passenger car internal combustion engines by means of an organic Rankine cycle (ORC) system is promising for reducing CO2 emissions. In this study, different cycle configurations capable of converting waste heat from both coolant a ...

2018

Small, High-Speed, Oil-Free Radial Turbo-compressors for Cooling Applications: Refrigerant Selection

Jürg Alexander Schiffmann

Emerging energy-efficient, oil-free radial centrifugal compressors seem promising for small to mid-capacity air conditioning and refrigeration applications. Compressor design must balance trade-offs among impeller diameter, bearing type, and refrigerant se ...

2018

An updated three-zone heat transfer model for slug flow boiling in microchannels

John Richard Thome, Mirco Magnini

This work proposes a novel physics-based model for the fluid mechanics and heat transfer associated with slug flow boiling in horizontal circular microchannels to update the widely used three-zone model of Thome et al. (2004). The heat transfer model has a ...

Pergamon-Elsevier Science Ltd2017

Fluid–structure interaction in pipe coils during hydraulic transients

Anton Schleiss, Pedro Filipe De Almeida Manso, David Ferràs Segura

The paper presents the analysis of fluid–structure interaction occurring during hydraulic transients in pipe coils by means of a four-equation model. The purpose is to understand and describe the effect of the coil movement on the transient wave. The four- ...

Taylor & Francis Ltd2017

Role Of A Liquid Accumulator In A Passive Two-Phase Liquid Cooling System For Electronics: Experimental Analysis

John Richard Thome, Jackson Braz Marcinichen, Nicolas Lamaison, Raffaele Luca Amalfi

Gravity-driven two-phase liquid cooling systems using flow boiling within micro-scale evaporators are becoming a game changing solution for electronics cooling. The optimization of the system's filling ratio can however become a challenging problem for a s ...

Amer Soc Mechanical Engineers2017

Working fluid charge reduction, part 1: CO2 fin-tube evaporator designed for light commercial appliances utilizing flow pattern based phenomenological prediction models

John Richard Thome, Jackson Braz Marcinichen

The present study focused on improving the thermal performance of CO2 evaporators while reducing their volume and thus significantly reducing the working fluid charge. To achieve this, the leading two-phase flow pattern and physically-based prediction mode ...

Elsevier Sci Ltd2016

Multi-temperature heat pumps: A literature review

Jürg Alexander Schiffmann

This review highlights the major advantages and challenges of mechanically driven heat pumps and refrigeration systems with focus on multi-temperature applications. Different design strategies are presented, including cycles with multi-stage compressors, e ...

Elsevier2016

Working fluid charge reduction. Part II: Supercritical CO2 gas cooler designed for light commercial appliances

John Richard Thome, Jackson Braz Marcinichen

The present study focused on the thermal hydraulic performance improvement of a CO2 gas cooler with the principal goal of reducing its volume, and consequently the necessary charge of the working fluid. To achieve this compactness, the leading methods for ...

Elsevier Sci Ltd2016

Experimental investigation of a two-stage oil-free domestic Air/Water heat pump prototype powered by an oil-free high-speed twin-stage radial compressor rotating on gas bearings

Daniel Favrat, Jürg Alexander Schiffmann, Jean-Baptiste Carré

Domestic heat pumps have been identified as a key-technology to decrease the energy consumption of the domestic sector, which represents 29% of the world final energy consumption. Space & water heating represent more than two third of the domestic sector e ...

2016

Unified Modeling Suite for Two-Phase Flow, Convective Boiling, and Condensation in Macro- and Microchannels

John Richard Thome, Andrea Cioncolini

This paper focuses on the unified modeling suite for annular flow that the authors have developed and continue to develop. The annular flow suite currently includes models to predict the void fraction, the entrained liquid fraction, and the wall shear stre ...

Taylor & Francis Inc2016

Mechanical analyses of the waveguide flange coupling for the first confinement system of the ITER electron cyclotron upper launcher

Timothy Goodman, René Chavan, Jean-Daniel Landis, Robert Bertizzolo

The four electron cyclotron (EC) upper port antennas (or "upper launchers" -UL) will be used to drive current locally inside magnetic islands located at the q= 2 (or smaller) rational surfaces in order to stabilize neoclassical tearing modes (NTMs), as wel ...

Elsevier Science Sa2016

Two-Phase Heat Transfer Mechanisms within Plate Heat Exchangers : Experiments, Modeling and Simulations

Raffaele Luca Amalfi

Plate heat exchangers are adopted in many domestic and industrial applications, such as ventilation, air conditioning, evaporation or condensation process, heat pumps and cooling of hydrodynamic circuits in engines. In the present thesis, an extensive expe ...

EPFL2016

Experimental investigation of electrical domestic heat pumps equipped with a twin-stage oil-free radial compressor

Jean-Baptiste Carré

The world energy consumption has dramatically increased since the end of the World War II. The main share of this energy comes from fossil fuel combustion. The worldwide domestic sector consumes about 30% of the global energy supply and the biggest share o ...

EPFL2015