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Showing 1 to 6 of 6 for “"thermal reservoirs"”.
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Analysis and optimisation of thermal energy storage
The focus of this project is the storage of thermal energy in packed beds for bulk electricity storage applications. Packed beds are composed of pebbles through which a heat transfer fluid passes, and a thermodynamic model of the heat transfer processes within the store is described. The packed …
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Microscopic Chaos, Fractals, and Transport in Nonequilibrium Steady States. - (Die Veröffentlichung einer ergänzten und überarbeiteten Version bei "World Scientific Publishing" ist für 2005/06 geplant.)
… energy into a system, hence there must be some thermal reservoir that prevents the system from heating up. For this purpose a deterministic and time-reversible modeling of thermal reservoirs was proposed in form of Gaussian and Nose-Hoover thermostats. This approach yielded simple relations …
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Heat Engine Driven by Shape Memory Alloys: Prototyping and Design
… the engine is positioned between two distinct thermal reservoirs such that half of its wires are heated while the other half are cooled. Wires on the hot side attempt to contract, driving the engine in the direction that relieves the heat-induced stress. Wires on the cold side soften and …
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Modelling and development of thermo-mechanical energy storage
Pumped thermal energy storage (PTES) and liquid air energy storage (LAES) are two technologies that use mechanically-driven thermodynamic cycles to store electricity in the form of high-grade thermal energy, employing abundant materials that are kept in large insulated tanks. Both technologies are …
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SUPPRESSION OF ELECTRON THERMAL CONDUCTION IN THE HIGH β INTRACLUSTER MEDIUM OF GALAXY CLUSTERS
… of the plasma transport processes, especially thermal conduction. The basic physics of thermal conduction in plasmas with ICM-like conditions has yet to be elucidated, however. We use particle-in-cell simulations and analytic models to explore the dynamics of an ICM-like plasma (with small …
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Rotary (redox) reactor-based oxy combustion chemical looping power cycles for CO₂ capture : analysis and optimization
… reactor, on the other hand, maintains near-thermal equilibrium between the two stages by thermally coupling channels undergoing oxidation and reduction. In this thesis, a multiscale analysis for assessing the integration of the rotary CLC reactor technology in power generation systems is …