Abstract: Single- and double-flash steam power plants are commonly used in the utilization of high enthalpy liquid-dominated geothermal resources. In these plants, the expansion line in the wet steam region results in significant ...

Abstract: This paper presents a simple but complete design method to obtain arbitrary vortex design tube-axial fans starting from fixed size and rotational speed. The method couples the preliminary design method previously suggested ...

Abstract: In a wide variety of thermal energy systems, the high integration among components derives from the need to correctly exploit all the internal heat sources by a proper matching with the internal heat sinks. According to ...

Abstract: Aspect ratio and solidity play complementary roles in the aerodynamic design of axial fan rotor blades. Few studies have experimented the effect of the aspect ratio of rotor blades on the performance of low-speed axial ...

Abstract: This article deals with the aerodynamic performance of ducted axial-flow fans available in the 2020 market and aims to create a general picture of the best designs and design trends, as a tool for fan designers. To this ...

Abstract: In the literature, there is a lack of tools able to optimize contextually the design and operation of a multi-energy system in its entirety, encompassing both (i) the number, type, and size of the energy conversion and ...

Abstract: This work deals with the application of the open-source computational fluid dynamics (CFD) code MULTALL to the analysis of tube-axial fans. The code has been widely validated in the literature for high-speed turbomachine ...