A comprehensive review of heat recovery systems for building applications

PM Cuce, S Riffat - Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, 2015 - Elsevier
In this paper, a comprehensive review on building applications of heat recovery systems is
presented. The review is given as a clear and understandable summary of the previous …

Entropy and entransy in convective heat transfer optimization: A review and perspective

X Chen, T Zhao, MQ Zhang, Q Chen - … Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer, 2019 - Elsevier
Performance improvement of convective heat transfer processes is significant for energy
conservation. Considering the trade-off between the heat transfer enhancement and the …

Progress in entransy theory and its applications

LG Chen - Chinese science bulletin, 2012 - Springer
The entransy and entransy dissipation extremum principle proposed have opened up a new
direction for the heat transfer optimization. The emergence and development of entransy …

Experimental study of effects of baffle helix angle on shell-side performance of shell-and-tube heat exchangers with discontinuous helical baffles

B Gao, Q Bi, Z Nie, J Wu - Experimental thermal and fluid Science, 2015 - Elsevier
Flow resistance and heat transfer of several shell-and-tube heat exchangers with
discontinuous helical baffles are experimentally studied and compared at the five helix …

The application of entransy dissipation theory in optimization design of heat exchanger

J Guo, M Xu - Applied Thermal Engineering, 2012 - Elsevier
The optimization of heat exchanger design is investigated by applying the entransy
dissipation theory and genetic algorithm. It is found that the role played by the fluid friction is …

Investigation of the thermohydraulic characteristics of vertical supercritical CO2 flows at cooling conditions

J Guo, J Song, Z Han, KS Pervunin, CN Markides - Energy, 2022 - Elsevier
The thermohydraulic characteristics of supercritical CO 2 flows in a vertical tube at cooling
conditions are numerically investigated, and the influence of the heat-flux condition and of …

Analyses of entransy dissipation, entropy generation and entransy–dissipation-based thermal resistance on heat exchanger optimization

X Cheng, Q Zhang, X Liang - Applied Thermal Engineering, 2012 - Elsevier
Heat exchangers are widely used in industries and daily life. The optimization design of heat
exchangers is of great significance to the consumption reduction of energy. This paper …

Progress in optimization of mass transfer processes based on mass entransy dissipation extremum principle

LG Chen - Science China Technological Sciences, 2014 - Springer
The mass entransy and its dissipation extremum principle have opened up a new direction
for the mass transfer optimization. Firstly, the emergence and development process of both …

Numerical investigation of helically coiled tube from the viewpoint of field synergy principle

J Guo, X Huai - Applied Thermal Engineering, 2016 - Elsevier
The heat transfer characteristics of helically coiled tube are numerically investigated from the
viewpoint of field synergy principle, and the simulation results have a good agreement with …

Different baffle gaps with numerical analysis of multidesigned shell-tube-heat exchanger

MA Kartal - Egyptian Journal of Petroleum, 2024 - ejp.researchcommons.org
Heat exchangers are broad-spectrum tools used to obtain hot water from cold water. These
tools can also be used in heating and cooling processes. Generally preferred types are used …