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Hygrothermal Behavior of Earth-Based Materials: Experimental and Numerical Analysis [PDF]

MATEC Web of Conferences, 2020
Bio-based building materials such as earth bricks are attracting renewed interest throughout the world due to their thermal and environmental properties. In this work, a numerical study of the hygrothermal behavior of building walls consist of compressed
Saidi Meriem, Soukaina Cherif Amel, Sediki Ezeddine, Zeghmati Belkacem   +3 more
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Heat and moisture insulation by means of air curtains: application to refrigerated chambers [PDF]

, 2016
The present study is devoted to the determination of the efficiency of air curtain units (ACUs) applied to heat and moisture insulation of refrigerated chambers.
Giráldez García, Héctor, Oliet Casasayas, Carles, Oliva Llena, Asensio, Pérez Segarra, Carlos David   +3 more
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Construction of a New Type of Coal Moisture Control Device Based on the Characteristic of Indirect Drying Process of Coking Coal

Energies, 2020
This paper presents an in-depth study on the indirect drying characteristics and interface renewal. By comparing the drying rate curve, it is found that shortening the surface drying stage, which contains a repeated evaporation-diffusion-condensation ...
Ming Yan, Xinnan Song, Jin Tian, Xuebin Lv, Ze Zhang, Xiaoyan Yu, Shuting Zhang   +6 more
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Dynamic thermal simulation of horizontal ground heat exchangers for renewable heating and ventilation of buildings [PDF]

, 2016
A ground heat exchanger is used to transfer thermal energy stored in soil in order to provide renewable heating, cooling and ventilation of a building.
Bansal, Bottarelli, Chong, Cosby, Darkwa, Gan, Gan, Gan, Gan, Gnielinski, Gonzalez, Guohui Gan, Maerefat, Mei, Mihalakakou, Niu, Ozgener, Philip, Santamouris, Svec, Tiwari, Wu   +21 more
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Uncertainty Updating in the Description of Coupled Heat and Moisture Transport in Heterogeneous Materials

, 2011
To assess the durability of structures, heat and moisture transport need to be analyzed. To provide a reliable estimation of heat and moisture distribution in a certain structure, one needs to include all available information about the loading ...
Anna Kučerová, Ditlevsen, Fu, Ghanem, Jan Sýkora, Kennedy, Kuráž, Kučerová, Kučerová, Künzel, Lombardo, Lubineau, Marzouk, Matthies, Matthies, Parthasarathy, Rosić, Stefanou, Sýkora, Tarantola, Tierney, Valenta, Vorel, Yee   +23 more
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Experimental study of heat transfer from the gas-vapor mixture to the surface in rectangular channel with the water vapor condensation [PDF]

, 2016
The laboratory setup was developed for studying the water vapor condensation process from the gas mixture on a vertical flat heat exchange surface in rectangular channel 10x2 cm. The experiments were carried out with normal pressure of steam-air mixture.
Bespalov, Viktor Vladimirovich, Bespalov, Vladimir Il'ich, Melnikov, Denis Vladimirovich   +2 more
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Model and experiment of heat and moisture transfer process of exhaust air flow strengthened by wet hydrophobic fiber grid

Meitan xuebao
How to approach the limit of heat and humidity energy extraction from exhaust air flow is a difficult problem for low-grade waste heat recovery technology in mines, and the key is to explore new ways to strengthen heat and moisture transfer between gas ...
Shengxiang WU, Shiqiang CHEN, Huan DENG, Minhua HUANG, Yuanhao GUO, Zhirong WU, Jiachuan JIANG   +6 more
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Interaction effects between surface radiation and double-diffusive turbulent natural convection in an enclosed cavity filled with solid obstacles [PDF]

, 2012
The work reported here is a 2D numerical study on the buoyancy-driven low speed flow of humid air inside a rectangular cavity partially filled with solid cylindrical objects and whose vertical walls are maintained at 1.2 and 21 oC.
Hasan, Reaz, Iyi, Draco, Penlington, Roger   +2 more
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Heat-transfer simulation of slice potato during drying

浙江大学学报. 农业与生命科学版, 2000
Internal heat and mass diffusion process is the base of the study on drying mechanism and drying technology. In the paper, the simultaneous moisture and heat diffusion equation with heat-moisture diffusion have been developed and used to solve ...
WANG Jun, LIU Zheng-huai, WANG Jin-shuang   +2 more
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A Technique for Decreasing Reactivity of Coal Material to Suppress the Oxygen Absorption Process [PDF]

, 2016
The paper describes the mechanisms of self-ignition formation in coal liable to spontaneous combustion, on the basis of experimental works performed to analyze heat and mass transfer in the coal-air system.
Gubanova, А. R., Lugovtsova, Nataliya Yurievna, Timofeeva, S. S.   +2 more
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