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Kazuhisa A. Chikita, Hideo Oyagi and Kazuhiro Amita
A thermal system in the very deep Lake Tazawa (maximum depth, 423 m) was investigated by estimating the heat budget. In the heat budget estimate, the net heat input at the lake?s surface and the heat input by river inflow and groundwater inflow were cons...
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Jinming Chen, Xiao Yang, Haiya Dao, Haowen Gu, Gang Chen, Changshu Mao, Shihan Bai, Shixiang Gu, Zuhao Zhou and Ziqi Yan
Water, soil, and heat are strategic supporting elements for human survival and social development. The degree of matching between human-land-water-heat elements directly influences the sustainable development of a region. However, the current evaluation ...
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Kazuhisa A. Chikita, Akio Goto, Jun Okada, Takashi Yamaguchi and Hideo Oyagi
Exploring how the hydrological and thermal conditions of a volcanic lake change in response to volcanic activity is important to identify the signs of a volcanic eruption. A water cycle system and a geothermal process in a crater lake, Okama, in the acti...
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Jan Kosny, Jay Thakkar, Tlegen Kamidollayev, Margaret J. Sobkowicz, Juan Pablo Trelles, Cordula Schmid, Sampson Phan, Saibhargav Annavajjala and Peter Horwath
PCMs are attractive for the future generation of buildings, where energy efficiency targets and thermal comfort expectations are increasingly prioritized. Experimental analysis of local thermal processes in these dynamic components and whole-building ene...
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Dalibor Peru?ko, Damir Karabaic, Ivan Bajsic and Jo?e Kutin
During LNG storage and transportation by ship, a fraction of the LNG in the cryogenic tanks evaporates due to heat ingress through the insulation, resulting in boil-off gas (BOG) production and a change in LNG composition, a phenomenon known as LNG agein...
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Iñaki Garmendia, Haritz Vallejo, Miguel Seco and Eva Anglada
In this paper, the design and validation of a heat storage device based on phase change materials are presented, with the focus on improving the thermal control of micro-satellites. The main objective of the development is to provide a system that is abl...
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Shisong Wang, Xu Hou, Jianbao Yin, Yuming Xing and Zixian Wang
To access the enhancement effect of the topology optimization and porous foam structure, numerical studies were conducted to investigate the heat conduction enhancement (by metal foam, graphite foam, topologically optimized fins, and combinations of meta...
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Jay Thakkar, Nicholas Bowen, Allen C. Chang, Peter Horwath, Margaret J. Sobkowicz and Jan Kosny
This study investigates improvements in low-cost latent heat storage material calcium chloride hexahydrate (CaCl2.6H2O). Its melting point is between 25 and 28 °C, with relatively high enthalpy (170?190 J/g); however, this phase change material (PCM) sho...
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Ciprian Neagoe, Ioan Albert Tudor, Cristina Florentina Ciobota, Cristian Bogdanescu, Paul Stanciu, Nicoleta Zarnescu-Ivan, Radu Robert Piticescu and Maria Dolores Romero-Sanchez
Microencapsulation of alkali metal nitrates for latent heat storage in concentrated solar power plants has the potential to reduce salt corrosion in storage tanks and installations.
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David Vérez, Emiliano Borri, Alicia Crespo, Boniface Dominick Mselle, Álvaro de Gracia, Gabriel Zsembinszki and Luisa F. Cabeza
The use of latent heat thermal energy storage is an effective way to increase the efficiency of energy systems due to its high energy density compared with sensible heat storage systems. The design of the storage material encapsulation is one of the key ...
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