AN AUTOMATIC HEAT FLUX-TEMPERATURE MEASURING SYSTEM AND ITS APPLICATION

An automatic heat flux-temperature measuring system can be used to measure local body heat flux, local skin temperature, body core temperature, and ambient temperature, as well as mean body heat flux, mean skin temperature, physiological shell thermal insulation and suit thermal insulation. This paper describes the measuring principle, hardware construction, software program and the application in thermal measurements on divers.

EXPERIMENTAL RESEARCH AND DESIGN ON HEAT TRANSFER OF EVAPORATOR USED IN THE LARGE QUICK FREEZE PLANT

The evaporator is the main part of a quick-freeze equipment. There are many factors influencing the heat transfer coefficient of an evaporator. The most important factors among them are the fin shape, tube diameter, distance of fin space, frost, and velocity of air flow etc. They mainly influence the thermal efficiency of an evaporator, and therefore its thermal efficiency has direct relationship with the whole efficiency of the quick freeze plant. Evaporators with different structural types have different heat transfer efficiency, in order to obtain high efficiency structure of evaporator, 8 evaporator models with different fin shape, tube diameter and tube arrangement are analyzed and compared. The calculation results show that the integral waved fins, equilateral-triangle arranged small diameter tubes and varying fin-spacing has the highest heat transfer coefficient. The experimental result also shows that the evaporator with this type of structure has better thermal efficiency. The experimental result is in good agreement with the calculation result, it can instruct engineering design for usual designer. A real quick-freeze equipment is designed and put into production. The result shows that, compared with traditional domestic quick-freeze equipments, this equipment decreases by 40% in size and by 20% in energy consumption.

The Disk-Magnet Electromagnetic Induction Applied to Thermoelectric Energy Conversions

The thermoelectric energy conversion technique by employing the Disk-Magnet Electromagnetic Induction (DM-EMI) and improved DM-EMIs is shown, and possible applications to heat engines as one of the energy harvesting technologies are also discussed. The idea is induced by integrating irreversible thermodynamical mechanism of a water drinking bird with that of a Stirling engine, resulting in thermoelectric energy generation different from conventional heat engines. The current thermoelectric energy conversion with DM-EMI can be applied to wide ranges of temperature differences. The mechanism of DM-EMI energy converter is examined in terms of axial flux magnetic lines and categorized as the axial flux generator. It is useful for practical applications to macroscopic heat engines such as wind, geothermal, thermal and nuclear power turbines and heat-dissipation lines, for supporting thermoelectric energy conversions. The technique of DM-EMI will contribute to environmental problems to maintain clean and susceptible energy as one of the energy harvesting technologies.

Heat transfer and airflow characteristics enhancement of compact plate-pin fins heat sinks–a review

Plate-pin heat sinks are widely used for the electronic cooling system,internal combustion IC engine,cooling of gas turbine blades and other different applications to enhance the thermal performance of heat sinks due to simplicity,low cost,and a reliable manufacturing process.However,compact heat sinks give higher pressure drop compared with other types of heat sinks.The purpose of this article is to summarise the main advantages and disadvantages of the compact heat sink with some recommendation studies for future works heat sink thermal airflow experiment and simulations.Furthermore,the research attempts to highlight the importance of balance the relationship between the hydraulic performance and the thermal performance of compact heat sinks。