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Identifying design guidelines to meet the circular economy principles: A case study on electric and electronic equipment
(Elsevier, 2018-08)
This study presents a methodology that allows the analysis of how an existing product design meets the design guidelines required from the circular economy perspective, and which are the design guidelines that would need ...
Experimental validation of the exact analytical solution to the steady periodic heat transfer problem in a PCM layer
(Elsevier, 2017-12-01)
Phase change materials (PCM) are used in many industrial and residential applications for their advantageous characteristic of high capacity of latent thermal storage by means of an isothermal process. In this context, it ...
A CFD-DEM solver to model bubbly flow. Part I: Model development and assessment in upward vertical pipes
(Elsevier, 2018-02-02)
In the computational modeling of two-phase flow, many uncertainties are usually faced in simulations and validations with experiments. This has traditionally made it difficult to provide a general method to predict the ...
Influence of implementing selective collection on municipal waste management systems in developing countries: A Brazilian case study
(Elsevier, 2018)
The aim of this study is to analyse the evolution of the municipal solid waste management (MSWM) system of João Pessoa (Brazil), which is one of the pioneering Brazilian cities to implement door-to-door selective collection ...
Stabilization and characterization of a nanofluid based on a eutectic mixture of diphenyl and diphenyl oxide and carbon nanoparticles under high temperature conditions
(Elsevier, 2017-06)
(C12H10O), and it is used as an HTF with a maximum working temperature of 400 °C. However, one of the drawbacks of Therminol VP1 is its low thermal conductivity. In recent years it has been demonstrated that the addition ...
Modelling and experimental investigation of horizontal buoyant gas jets injected into stagnant uniform ambient liquid
(Elsevier, 2017-07)
In this article, an experimental and theoretical study on the buoyant non-condensable gas jet that is injected horizontally into a high-density liquid ambient at different initial conditions is performed. Direct and ...
Assessing the sustainability of Best Available Techniques (BAT): methodology and application in the ceramic tiles industry
(Elsevier, 2013-07)
This paper presents a methodology for identifying sustainable and most appropriate BAT for a given industrial installation and sector. The methodology involves identification of environmental hot spots from an installation ...
Study of the effect of viscosity on the head and flow rate degradation in different multistage electric submersible pumps using dimensional analysis
(Elsevier, 2017-06)
Multistage Electrical Submersible Pumps (ESPs) undergo performance degradation when operating with highly viscous fluids. Several studies on this subject seek to provide models to predict the pump performance under such ...
Ionic compounds derived from crude glycerol: Thermal energy storage capability evaluation
(Elsevier, 2017)
Ionic liquids (diimidazol-1-ium esters) prepared from wastes, crude glycerol and carboxylic acids are investigated as potential phase change materials (PCM). The ionic liquids (IL) with best thermophysical properties were ...
New formulation and characterization of enhanced bulk-organic phase change materials
(2018-02-14)
The main drawbacks faced by researchers to successfully implement organic-PCM as materials to improve the thermal performance of building systems are their low thermal conductivity, their high flammability, and their low ...