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Fluid Flow, Heat Transfer, and Mass Transport Analysis for the Optimization of Sustainable Energy Systems

A special issue of Energies (ISSN 1996-1073). This special issue belongs to the section "J1: Heat and Mass Transfer".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: 15 January 2025 | Viewed by 988

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School of Physics, Engineering and Computer Science, University of Hertfordshire, Hatfield AL10 9AB, UK
Interests: thermal management; thermal comfort; nanofluids; phase change materials for heat transfer, energy conversion, and storage

Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

You are invited to submit your latest work to our Special Issue, entitled “Fluid Flow, Heat Transfer, and Mass Transport Analysis for the Optimization of Sustainable Energy Systems”.

The development of new, innovative, sustainable energy technologies is crucial for satisfying ever-growing global energy demands and combating climate change. Heat transfer and fluid flow play an integral role in a wide range of energy systems, and improving the efficiency of these processes contributes hugely to the overall system performance enhancement. This Special Issue focuses on novel research involving analytical, experimental, and numerical investigations on the fundamental understanding of fluid flow, heat transfer, and mass transport phenomena and their contribution to efficiency optimization of a wide range of applications, such as energy generation, conversion, storage and utilization, automotive engineering, space heating and cooling, thermal management of power electronics, fuel cells, and batteries. Studies relevant to novel thermal fluids, materials, and processes to optimize system energy efficiency also fall within the scope of this Special Issue and are encouraged to be submitted.

Dr. Tehmina Ambreen
Guest Editor

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Keywords

  • heat and mass transport
  • sustainable energy system optimization
  • energy generation, conversion, storage, and utilization
  • thermal management
  • space heating and cooling
  • transportation
  • thermofluids
  • heat exchangers

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Study on Rapid Simulation of the Pre-Cooling Process of a Large LNG Storage Tank with the Consideration of Digital Twin Requirements
by Yunfei Zhao, Caifu Qian, Guangzhi Shi, Mu Li, Zaoyang Qiu, Baohe Zhang and Zhiwei Wu
Energies 2024, 17(14), 3471; https://doi.org/10.3390/en17143471 - 15 Jul 2024
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Abstract
The pre-cooling of a large LNG storage tank involves complex phenomena such as heat transfer, low-temperature flow, gas displacement, and vaporization. The whole pre-cooling process could take up to 50 h. For large-scale, full-capacity storage tanks, it is particularly important to accurately control [...] Read more.
The pre-cooling of a large LNG storage tank involves complex phenomena such as heat transfer, low-temperature flow, gas displacement, and vaporization. The whole pre-cooling process could take up to 50 h. For large-scale, full-capacity storage tanks, it is particularly important to accurately control the pre-cooling temperature. Digital twin technology can characterize and predict the full life cycle parameters from the beginning of pre-cooling development to the end and even the appearance of damage in real time. The construction of a digital twin platform requires a large number of data samples in order to predict the operating state of the device. Therefore, a simulation method with high computational efficiency for the pre-cooling process of LNG tanks is of great importance. In this paper, the mixture model and discrete phase model (DPM) are applied to simulate the pre-cooling process of a large LNG full-capacity tank. Following Euler–Lagrange, the DPM greatly simplifies the solution process. Compared with the experimental results, the maximum error of the DPM simulation results is less than 11%. Such a highly efficient simulation method for the large LNG full-capacity storage tank can make it possible to build the digital twin platform that needs hundreds of data model samples. Full article
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