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Archives of Thermodynamics | 2024 | vol. 45 | No 4 (in progress)

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Non-invasive real-time measurements of phase content in the reservoir fluid are highly advantageous in the oil and gas industry and remain a current research topic. The paper presents an innovative, self-designed multi-electrode capacitance meter intended for detecting multiphase flow patterns in a low-permittivity medium, such as the reservoir fluid. The ca-pacitance sensor is built with delta-sigma charge modulators capacitance-to-digital converters. Machine learning is applied to convert the capacitance measurements into a tomographic image of the flow pattern. At present, the meter is built with eight electrodes. It is shown that the measurements are repeatable and have a good signal-to-noise ratio. The implemented neural network is capable of correctly reconstructing the tomographic images for a test tube filled with reservoir fluid and placed in various locations inside the test section.
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Remigiusz Ornowski
1 2
Marcin Lackowski
1
Roman Kwidzinski
1

  1. Institute of Fluid Flow Machinery, Polish Academy of Sciences, Heat Transfer Department, Fiszera 14, 80-231 Gdańsk, Poland
  2. TERCJA Measuring and Computer Systems, Dywizjonu 303 5B/24, 80-462 Gdańsk, Poland
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Bioenergy carbon capture technology (BioCCS or BECCS) plays a key role in the European Green Deal, which aims to decarbonize industry and energy sectors, resulting in the production of energy with negative CO2 emissions. Due to the biogenic origin of carbon contained in municipal solid waste (MSW), the application of carbon capture in waste incinera-tion plants can be classified as BioCCS. Thus, this technology has attracted scientists' attention recently since it reduces excessive waste and emissions of carbon dioxide. Currently, there are four incineration plants in the Netherlands, Norway and Japan, in which CO2 capture is implemented; however, they are based on the post-combustion technique since it is the most mature method and not requires many changes in the system. Nevertheless, the separation of CO2 from the flue gas flow, which contains mostly nitrogen, is complex and causes a large drop in the total performance of the system. Oxy-fuel combustion technology involves the replacement of air as an oxidizer into high purity oxygen and recirculated exhaust gas. As a result, CO2-rich gas is produced that is practically ready for capture. The main goal of the study is to develop a math-ematical model of oxy-waste combustion to answer the research questions, such as how the composition of oxidant that is supplied to the process affects the combustion performance. The model includes all important processes taking place within the chamber, such as pyrolysis, char burnout and gas combustion over the grate. The results of the work will contribute to the development of oxy-waste incineration plants and will be useful for design purposes.
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Paulina Copik
1
Andrzej Szlęk
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Mario Ditaranto
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  1. Department of Thermal Technology, Silesian University of Technology, Konarskiego 22, Gliwice 44-100, Poland
  2. SINTEF Energy Research, Sem Sælands vei 11, 7034 Trondheim, Norway
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Using oxygenated alternative fuels in compression ignition (CI) engines is feasible for energy security problems and cli-mate change. Alcohols are regarded as alternative fuels for compression ignition engines because of their excellent physi-cochemical features, emission, and combustion characteristics. Research on alcohols and their additions has progressed significantly in recent years. Several researchers have examined the combined effect of higher alcohol with diesel and their impact and challenged that concentrations of higher alcohol reduce harmful particulate emissions in CI engines. This paper mainly focused on the performance and emissions properties of higher alcohols like butanol and pentanol. Alcohol has a low energy content, typically affecting engine brake-specific fuel consumption (BSFC). Low-temperature combustion (LTC) in compression ignition engines can lower NOx and smoke emissions, and improve the efficiency of the engine. LTC is done by combining higher alcohol with increased exhaust gas recirculation (EGR) rate and retarded fuel injection timing. The higher alcohol, along with the oxygen in the fuel reduces exhaust fumes, improves the air/fuel mixture by providing a longer ignition delay (ID), and can replace the fossil fuel like diesel (partially or whole) to allow efficient and clean combustion in CI engines. Finally, several significant findings and comments are provided regarding potential ave-nues for experimental research and future development. According to thorough analysis, bio-alcohols are considered to be a substitute fuel for CI engines.
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Deepak Kumar
1
Naveen Kumar
2
Rajiv Chaudhary
1

  1. Department of Mechanical Engineering, Delhi Technological University, New Delhi, India, 110042
  2. Centre for Advanced Studies and Research in Automotive Engineering, Delhi Technological University, Delhi, India, 110042
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The ongoing trend of miniaturization of electronic devices, including computer processors, high-speed servers and micro-electro-mechanical system devices, should go hand in hand with their improved performance. However, managing heat remains a major challenge for these devices. In the present study, a numerical investigation was done on a micro-channel heat sink with an open-stepped micro-pin fin heat sink with various arrangements through ANSYS software. Pin fin was varied in a fashion of increasing and decreasing. The working fluid opted for was water in a single phase. The analysis takes into account varying thermo-physical properties of water. The operating parameters, i.e. the Reynolds number was taken as 100–350 and heat flux as 500 kW/m2. Arrangements selected were staggered and inline. Observations revealed that the staggered 2 arrangement has shown better thermal performance than other arrangements within the entire investigated range of Reynolds numbers because of the effective mixing of fluids. Furthermore, the inline configuration of micro pin fin heat sink has the worst performance. It is interesting to note that a very small difference was observed in the heat transfer capability of both staggered configurations, while the pressure drop in the staggered 2 arrangement has shown an elevated value at a higher Reynold number value compared to the staggered 1 arrangement.
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Prabhakar Bhandari
1
Vineet Sharma
2
Lalit Ranakoti
3
Vijay Singh Bisht
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Manish Kumar Lila
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Shivasheesh Kaushik
6
Nikhil Kanojia
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Ayushman Srivastava
7
Bhupendra Kumar
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Shailesh Ranjan Kumar
9
Manish Kumar
10
Ashwarya Raj Paul
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  1. Department of Mechanical Engineering, School of Engineering and Technology, K. R. Mangalam University, Gurugram, Haryana-122103, India
  2. Department of Electrical Engineering, Poornima College of Engineering, Jaipur-302033, India
  3. Department of Mechanical Engineering, Graphic Era Deemed to University, Clement Town, Dehradun, Uttarakhand-248002, India
  4. Department of Thermal Engineering, Veer Madho Singh Bhandari Uttarakhand Technical University, Dehradun, Uttarakhand-248007, India
  5. Department of Mechanical Engineering, Graphic Era Hill University, Dehradun, Uttarakhand-248002, India
  6. Department of Mechanical Engineering, Shivalik College of Engineering, Dehradun, India
  7. Department of Mechanical Engineering, U.P.E.S, Dehradun, India
  8. Department of Mechanical Engineering, Dr. A.P.J.A.K.I.T. Tanakpur, India
  9. Department of Mechanical Engineering, Motihari College of Engineering, Motihari, India
  10. Department of Mechanical Engineering, Bakhtiyarpur College of Engineering, Bakhtiyarpur Dedaur, Bakhtiyarpur, Patna, India
  11. Department of Mechanical Engineering, V.I.T., Vellore, India
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This study examines a steady laminar Casson fluid flow induced by a semi-infinite vertical plate under the impact of the Darcy-Forchheimer relation and thermal radiation. The features of mixed convection, cross-diffusion, radiation absorption, heat generation, chemical reactions and viscous dissipation are also considered to explain the transport phenomenon. The resultant system of equations, concerned with the problem under consideration, is transformed into a group of non-linear ordinary differential equations (ODEs) by means of similarity variables. The bvp4c method, an instrument popular for its numerical accomplishments, is utilized to solve this problem. The effect of flow parameters on heat transfer, concentration and velocity is evaluated via diagrams. To validate our code, we have compared the present outcomes to the prevenient literature, and stable consent has been detected. Moreover, the friction coefficient Cfx, Nusselt number Nux, and Sherwood number Shx are also computed to assess velocity gradient, efficiency of heat transfer and mass transfer process, respec-tively.
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Sonam
1
Rajendra Singh Yadav
1

  1. University of Rajasthan, Department of Mathematics, Jaipur, Rajasthan-302004, India
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In this paper, the thermal instability of a three-dimensional boundary layer axisymmetric stagnation point flow towards a heated horizontal rotating disk is considered. A large number of works have been done on stability analysis. However, they did not check the thermal stability of the non-parallel-flow in the face of small disturbances that occur in the vicinity of the heated rotating disk. The governing equations of the basic flow are reduced to three coupled nonlinear partial differ-ential equations, and solved numerically with the fourth-order Runge-Kutta method. Thermal stability is examined by making use of linear stability theory based on the decomposition of the normal mode of Görtler-Hammerlin. The resulting eigenvalue problem is solved numerically using a pseudo-spectral method based on the expansion of Laguerre’s polyno-mials. The obtained results are discussed in detail through multiple configurations. As the main result, for large Prandtl numbers (Pr), the rotation disk parameter (Ω) has a destabilizing effect while for small Pr (around the unity) it tends to stabilize the basic flow. It was found that as the disk radius r→0, the flow is linearly stable, and the disturbances grow rapidly away from the stagnation point. For low values of Pr, the flow becomes more stable, and strong thermal gradients are necessary to destabilize it. However, an increase in Pr leads to a significant expansion of the instability region.
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Samir Mamache
1
Fatsah Mendi
1
Faiçal Nait Bouda
1

  1. Université de Bejaia, Faculté de Technologie, Laboratoire de Mécanique, Matériaux et Energétique (L2ME), 06000 Bejaia, Algeria
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The paper presents the results of analysis of thermal-flow processes in the ejector-condenser for selected geometrical param-eters using CFD (Computational Fluid Dynamics) methods. The ejector-condenser is the water-driven, two-phase ejector responsible for creating a sub-pressure allowing exhaust gases (steam and CO2 mixture) to be entrained, condensing steam, and then increasing the pressure above the atmospheric conditions. The axisymmetric numerical model was developed to take into account multiphase, turbulent flow with steam condensation in the presence of inert gas. The influence of the selected geometrical parameters, such as the motive nozzle's and mixing chamber's diameters on the ejector performance was investi-gated. CFD analysis results are presented in the form of developed scalar distributions as well as pressure, temperature and steam mass flow changes along the flow path. Performances for different geometry modes were calculated and compared using parameters such as compression ratio, expansion ratio, mass entertainment ratio and condensation efficiency. The max-imum achieved compression ratio for the analyzed geometrical variants is 1.113 for the assumed mass entertainment ratio of 0.0295. The condensation efficiency varies in a range of 49.6%–91.4% depending on motive fluid inlet conditions and geom-etry mode.
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Tomasz Kuś
1
Paweł Madejski
1

  1. AGH University of Krakow, Faculty of Mechanical Engineering and Robotics, Department of Power Systems and Environmental Protection Facilities, al. Mickiewicza 30, 30-059 Kraków, Poland
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In this study, the thermodynamic analysis of a combined cycle gas turbine integrated with post-combustion carbon capture and storage using the solvent method is performed. The syngas obtained from the gasification of sewage sludge is mixed with methane and nitrogen-rich natural gas fuels at different proportions, used in the gas turbine, and the properties of fuel and flue gases are analyzed. The flue gas obtained from the fuel mixture is passed through the post-combustion carbon capture and storage at various load conditions to assess the heat and electricity required for the carbon capture process. The solvent used for the carbon capture from flue gases enables CO2 capture with the high efficiency of 90%. With the calculated results, the load conditions of flue gas using fuel mixtures are identified, which reduces the heat and power demand of post-combustion carbon capture and storage and provides the possibility to achieve neutral emission. The impact of selected operating conditions of post-combustion carbon capture and storage on the CO2 emission reduction process and on the power plant performances is investigated. Considering the factors of electricity generation, energy efficiency, heat supply to the consumers, operating load of post-combustion carbon cap-ture and storage and CO2 emission, the 50% mixture of syngas with both fuels performs better. Also, the use of a mixture of 2-amino-2methyl-1-propanol and piperazine with reboiler duty 3.7 MJ/kgCO2 in post-combustion carbon capture and storage slightly enhanced the performance of the power plant compared to the use of monoethanolamine with reboiler duty 3.8 MJ/kgCO2.
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Navaneethan Subramanian
1
Paweł Madejski
1

  1. AGH University of Science and Technology, Faculty of Mechanical Engineering and Robotics, al. Mickiewicza 30, 30-059 Kraków, Poland
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This paper analyses the inverse marching method used to determine the thermal stresses on the inner surface of a thick-walled cylindrical element not weakened by holes in the transient state. The heat conduction problem was considered one-dimensional, i.e. it was assumed that heat is transferred only in the radial direction. The method is based on measuring the temperature inside the pipeline wall at a single point and assuming that the pipeline is thermally insulated. The paper undertook an evaluation of the influence of the measuring point's distance from the inner surface, the number of control volumes into which the inverted area was divided and the length of the time step on the accuracy of the calculated temper-ature, heat transfer coefficient and thermal stresses on the inner surface of the pressure element. Verification was performed by comparing the calculation results obtained from the direct analytical method perturbed by random errors with those obtained from the numerical inverse step method.
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Magdalena Jaremkiewicz
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  1. Cracow University of Technology, Faculty of Environmental and Energy Engineering, ul. Warszawska 24, Cracow 31-155, Poland
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Electrification of district heating and deep integration of sectors of national economies are fundamental elements of the future smart energy systems. This paper discusses the problem of optimal sizing of large-scale high-temperature heat pumps using treated sewage water as a heat source in a coal-fired district heating system. The study presents an approach to modelling of heat pump system that enables techno-economic analysis for investment decision making. Such analysis is enabled by a black-box-type identification model of the selected industrial heat pump. The model was developed based on the data generated by physical modelling of the heat pump using Ebsilon Professional software. In addition, it is proposed that the heat pump system is integrated with a dedicated photovoltaic power plant. The case study takes into consideration site-specific technical, economic, ecological, and legal constraints, weather conditions, hydraulic performance of the heat-ing network, and variability of loads within the sewage and the district heating systems. The results revealed that the proposed modelling approach is effective regarding multiple simulations and system optimisation. In addition, it was found that large-scale heat pump projects can be technically feasible and profitable if the heat pump is appropriately sized and operated. In the given case, the optimum size of the heat pump for a city of around 180 000 inhabitants is around 12 MW under maximum winter load.
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Jacek Kalina
1

  1. Silesian University of Technology, Konarskiego 22, Gliwice 44-100, Poland

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