Mass transfer experiments were conducted to study the thermal performance characteristics of blockages with round and elongated holes, positioned in a 12:1 rectangular channel. Naphthalene sublimation technique was adopted to conduct experiments with four different blockage configurations, flow rates corresponding to Reynolds numbers (based on channel hydraulic diameter) of 7,000 and 17,000, and at three blockage locations. The hole area to channel area ratio for all four blockage configurations was the same at 0.196. The hole width was half the channel height, and the distance between consecutive blockages was twice the channel height. Average heat transfer, local heat (mass) transfer and overall pressure drop results were obtained. The thermal performance for a particular blockage configuration was measured in terms of the heat transfer enhancement and the friction factor ratio. Heat transfer enhancement was measured as a ratio of average Nusselt number on the blockage surface to the Nusselt number for a thermally fully developed turbulent flow in a smooth channel. Results indicate that this ratio ranged between 3.6 and 12.4, while the friction factor ratio varied between 500-1700. The blockage configuration with round holes was found to yield best thermal performance, while the configuration with largest hole elongation was nearly equal in thermal performance. In order to compare different blockage configurations, an average value of upstream and downstream side thermal performances was used. A general downward trend in Nusselt number ratio with elongation of holes was observed on the upstream side and a reverse trend was observed on the downstream side. An upward trend in the Nusselt number ratio with blockage hole elongation on the downstream side of a blockage was primarily due to jet reversal from the downstream blockage and its impingement on the downstream surface of the upstream blockage. Local experiments were performed to compare against the results from average experiments and also to gain insights into the flow behaviour. There was good agreement between the results from local and average mass transfer experiments. The average variation in Nusselt number ratio between local and average mass transfer experiments was about 5.06%.

In this thesis, solar energy is utilized as the driving energy for an absorption cooling system, and a TRNSYS computer code is employed to simulate the operation of the system under Taiwan climate. Climate data in TMY2 form for several major cities of Taiwan are input to the simulation program. Also system operating parameters of solar collector area and the size of the system storage are varied to study there effects on the system performance. This research provides computer simulation data for the monthly solar fraction (f) as well as the seasonal solar fraction (F) for the absorption solar cooling system operated under the climate of the major cities in Taiwan. The data can provide the design needs.

Neben der Umwandlung von Energie gehören deren Transport und Speicherung zu den wichtigsten ingenieurwissenschaftlichen Problemfeldern. Die optimale Ausnutzung beider Mechanismen könnte entscheidend zur Überwindung der häufig existierenden örtlichen und zeitlichen Diskrepanz zwischen Notwendigkeit und Verfügbarkeit energetischer Ressourcen beitragen. Dies steht im Mittelpunkt von Forschungsarbeiten am Graduiertenkolleg Hochleistungsbauteilkühlung und der gleichnamigen Juniorprofessur am Institut für Thermodynamik und Technische Gebäudeausrüstung der TU Dresden. Sie beschäftigen sich zum einen mit der Optimierung von Wärmetransportmechanismen vor allem zur Kühlung und zum anderen mit der Speicherung stoffgebundener Energie. Die notwendigen strömungs- und wärmetechnischen Untersuchungen sind sowohl auf experimentellem als auch auf numerischem Gebiet angesiedelt / Alongside energy conversion, the transfer and storage of energy represent two of the most important research areas in the field of engineering sciences. The optimal use of both mechanisms could make a significant contribution to overcoming the frequently encountered local and temporal discrepancy between demand and the availability of energy resources. The research within the graduate college on high-performance cooling at the Institut für Thermodynamik und Technische Gebäudeausrüstung of TU Dresden, together with that of a corresponding junior professorship, is focussed on the optimisation of heat transfer processes for cooling purposes and for the storage of thermal energy. The necessary investigations of flow and heat transfer are based on experimental as well as numerical methods.

Thesis (M.S.)--West Virginia University, 2002. / Title from document title page. Document formatted into pages; contains vii, 66 p. : ill. (some col.). Vita. Includes abstract. Includes bibliographical references (p. 29).

Thesis (M. S.)--Mechanical Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, 2010. / Committee Chair: Yogendra K. Joshi; Committee Member: Mostafa Ghiaasiaan; Committee Member: Sheldon Jeter. Part of the SMARTech Electronic Thesis and Dissertation Collection.

Thesis (M. S.)--Mechanical Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, 2009. / Committee Chair: Graham, Samuel; Committee Member: Joshi, Yogendra; Committee Member: Kumar, Satish. Part of the SMARTech Electronic Thesis and Dissertation Collection.

De flesta industrier har någon typ av kylsystem som betjänar industriella processer och komfortkyla. Funktion och effektivitet på systemen varierar och när kylproblematik uppstår på anläggningen kan anledningarna vara flera. Kylproblematiken kan bero på bristande kylkapacitet, felaktigt injusterade köldbärarflöden eller underdimensionering av distributionssystem samt cirkulationspump. Detta examensarbete har utförts i samarbete med Stora Enso Skoghall och syftet med studien är att kartlägga och analysera deras kylsystems kapacitet, både sett till producerad kyleffekt och möjligheter till distribution på anläggningen. Genom en ökad kännedom av systemets funktion kan optimeringsförslag arbetas fram för att minska risken för kylproblematik och kostsam produktionsbegränsning. Då distributionssystemet är äldre och påbyggt i etapper finns misstankar om att det även finns möjligheter att med modern teknik få systemet att bli mer energieffektivt. Att effektivisera system gör att resurser kan sparas in vilket är ett viktigt steg mot en hållbar utveckling. För att få en överblick över systemets funktion och problematik har kyleffektsbehovet som ska betjänas kartlagts och jämförts med produktionskapacitet. Flödesmätningar har utförts på systemet för att kartlägga hur flödesbilden ser ut och jämföra verkliga flöden med de projekterade värdena för att avgöra hur väl injusterat systemet är. Undersökningen visade att det i dagsläget finns tillräckligt med kylproduktionskapacitet men att det förekommer relativt stora skillnader mellan projekterade och verkliga flöden. Det framkom också att cirkulationspumparna i dagsläget inte klarar av att leverera tillräckligt stort totalflöde för att tillfredsställa dimensionerande behov. För att undersöka hur en injustering kommer att påverka tryckfallen i systemet och för att avgöra hur pumparnas dimensionering skulle se ut vid drift av ett injusterat system har en beräkningsmodell över tryckfallen i systemet byggts upp med grund i mätdata från anläggning. För att lösa problematiken bör systemet injusteras. Genom att injustera systemet säkerställs att korrekta flöden betjänar respektive behov. Pumparna bör köras för att kunna tillgodose totalflödet vid dimensionerande fall, detta kan lösas med parallellkörning samt ökat varvtal på pumparna. Utredningen har dock visat att det finns en besparingspotential som motiverar att pumparna bör varvtalsregleras mot en proportionell tryckhållning för att minska att onödigt stora köldbärarflöden pumpas runt, vilket leder till onödigt höga driftkostnader för systemet. Studien har visat att det finns möjligheter till en rad åtgärder som skulle kunna minska elförbrukningen till pumparna under vissa perioder med upp till 75 %. / Most industries have some type of cooling system serves the industrial process and comfort cooling. Operation and efficiency of the systems varies and when cooling problem occurs, it can depend on several reasons. Cooling problems may be due to a lack of cooling capacity, improperly aligned water flow or under-sizing of the distribution system and circulation pump. This thesis has been carried out in cooperation with Stora Enso Skoghall and the purpose of the study is to investigate and analyze their cooling system properties, both in terms of produced cooling capacity and the opportunities for distribution on the facility. Through increased knowledge of system operation, proposals for optimization can be worked out to reduce the risk of cooling problems and costly production limitation. Because the distribution system is old, there are opportunities to use modern technology to get the system more energy efficient. When making the system more efficient it allows resources to be saved and this is an important step towards sustainable development. To get an overview of the problems in the system has the cooling effect been mapped and compared with the maximal production capacity. Flow measurements have been performed on the system to chart how the flows looks and the actual flow has been compared with the projected values to determine how well balanced the system is. In the current situation has the investigation showed that the system has enough production of cooling effect. But that there are relatively large differences between projected and actual flows. It also emerged that in the current situation the circulation pumps are not capable to supplying sufficient total flow to satisfy the designed requirements. To calculate how the adjustment will affect the pressure drops in the system and determine how the pumps design would look at the operation of a balanced system has a calculation-model of pressure drops in the system been built up with the data from the facility. To solve the problem, the system should be balanced so that the correct flow serving the respective needs. The pumps should be run so the overall flow is big enough to serve the total design flow. This can be solved by parallel operation and increased speed of the pumps. The investigation has shown that if the pumps would be speed-controlled against a proportional pressure limit, it can reduce the costs of pump energy and that leads to a potential for saving money. The study has shown that there are opportunities for a range of proceed that could reduce the electricity consumption of the pump at certain periods of up to 75%.

In this work a suggested method to reduce the energy consumption of the cooling system in a data center is modelled and evaluated. Introduced is different approaches to distributed airflow control, in which different amounts of airflow can be supplied in different parts of the data center (instead of an even airflow distribution). Two different kinds of distributed airflow control are compared to a traditional approach without airflow control. The difference between the two control approaches being the type of server rack used, either traditional ones or a new kind of rack with vertically placed servers. A model capable of describing the power consumption of the data center cooling system for these different approaches to airflow control was constructed. Based on the model, MATLAB simulations of three different server work load scenarios were then carried out. It was found that introducing distributed airflow control reduced the power consumption for all scenarios and that the control approach with the new kind of rack had the largest reduction. For this case the power consumption of the cooling system could be reduced to 60% - 69% of the initial consumption, depending on the workload scenario. Also examined was the effect on the data center of different parameters and process variables (parameters held fixed with the help of feedback loops), as well as optimal set point values.

A scaled-up gas turbine vane model was constructed in such a way to achieve a Biot number (Bi) representative of an actual engine component, and experiments were performed to collect temperature data which may be used to validate computational fluid dynamics (CFD) codes used in the design of gas turbine cooling schemes. The physical model incorporated an internal impingement plate to provide cooling on the inner wall surface, and film cooling over the external surface was provided by a single row of holes located on the suction side of the vane. A single row of holes was chosen to simplify the operating condition and test geometry for the purpose of evaluating CFD predictions. Thermocouples were used to measure internal gas temperatures and internal surface temperatures over a range of coolant flow rates, while infra-red thermography was used to measure external surface temperatures. When Bi is matched to an actual engine component, these measured temperatures may be normalized relative to the coolant temperature and mainstream gas temperature to determine the overall cooling effectiveness, which will be representative of the real engine component. Measurements were made to evaluate the overall effectiveness resulting from internal impingement cooling alone, and then with both internal impingement cooling and external film cooling as the coolant flow rate was increased. As expected, with internal impingement cooling alone, both internal and external wall surfaces became colder as the coolant flow rate was increased. The addition of film cooling further increased the overall effectiveness, particularly at the lower and intermediate flow rates tested, but provided little benefit at the highest flow rates. An optimal jet momentum flux ratio of I=1.69 resulted in a peak overall effectiveness, although the film effectiveness was shown to be low under these conditions. The effect of increasing the coolant-to-mainstream density ratio was evaluated at one coolant flow rate and resulted in higher values of overall cooling effectiveness and normalized internal temperatures, throughout the model. Finally, a 1-dimensional heat transfer analysis was performed (using a resistance analogy) in which overall effectiveness with film cooling was predicted from measurements of film effectiveness and overall effectiveness without film cooling. This analysis tended to over-predict overall effectiveness, at the lowest values of the jet momentum flux ratio, while under-predicting it at the highest values. / text

A series of experiments were carried out to measure the effects of convex surface curvature on film cooling. In the first series of experiments cooling holes were positioned along the vane such that their non-dimensional curvature parameter, 2r/d, was matched. Single row of holes with the same diameter were placed at high and moderate curvature position along a turbine vane resulting in 2r/d = 28 and 40, accordingly. A third row of holes was installed on the vane at the same location as the moderate curvature row with a larger hole diameter, resulting in 2r/d = 28, matching the high curvature row. Adiabatic temperature measurements were then carried out for blowing ratios of M = 0.30 to 1.60 tested at a density ratio of DR = 1.20. The results indicated that there was some scaling of performance present with matching 2r/d, but there was not an exact matching of performance. The second series of experiments focused on the effects of a changing surface curvature downstream of injection. Two row of holes were positioned along the vane surface such that the local radius of curvature and hole diameters were equivalent, with one row positioned upstream of the maximum curvature point and the other downstream of the maximum curvature point. Adiabatic temperature measurements were carried out for blowing ratios of M = 0.30 to 1.60 and tested at a density ratio of DR = 1.20. The results show that the change in curvature downstream plays a significant role in the performance of film cooling and that the local surface curvature is insufficient in capturing its effects. Additional experiments were carried out to measure the effects of the approaching boundary layer influence on film cooling as well as the effect of injection angle at a weakly convex surface. / text