Combined effect of electric field and nanofluid on bubble behaviors and heat transfer in flow boiling of minichannels

J Zhang, X Luo, L Wang, Z Feng, T Li - Powder Technology, 2022 - Elsevier
In this work, electric field and nanofluid are coupled to enhance flow boiling heat transfer in
minichannel. Pin electrodes are adopted to create non-uniform electric field. The effects of …

Modeling heat transfer properties in an ORC direct contact evaporator using RBF neural network combined with EMD

J Huang, Q Xiao, J Liu, H Wang - Energy, 2019 - Elsevier
Without an intervening wall, the direct contact evaporator (DCE) has been already
technically proven to improve the overall thermal efficiency of organic Rankine cycle (ORC) …

Complexity evolution quantification of bubble pattern in a gas-liquid mixing system for direct-contact heat transfer

Q Xiao, K Yang, M Wu, J Pan, J Xu, H Wang - Applied Thermal Engineering, 2018 - Elsevier
The pattern complexity (kinetics and uniformity) of bubble swarms governs the heat transfer
performance in gas-liquid contact systems such as direct-contact boiling heat transfer …

Measure of bubble non-uniformity within circular region in a direct-contact heat exchanger

Q Xiao, J Pan, Z Lv, J Xu, H Wang - International Journal of Heat and Mass …, 2017 - Elsevier
The study of bubble swarm distributions in a direct-contact heat exchanger was addressed
both theoretically and experimentally. But recently developed approach based on uniform …

Non-uniformity quantification of temperature and concentration fields by statistical measure and image analysis

Q Xiao, Y Zhai, Z Lv, J Xu, J Pan, H Wang - Applied Thermal Engineering, 2017 - Elsevier
The purpose of this study is to introduce a new technique for quantifying the non-uniformity
parameters of temperature and concentration fields. This technique, non-uniformity …

Extraction and evolution of bubbles attributes in a two-phase direct contact evaporator

Q Xiao, Q Gao, J Zhang, J Xu, J Pan, H Wang - International Journal of Heat …, 2018 - Elsevier
Understanding the bubble regimes is a fundamental step toward conducting heat transfer
enhancement. The non-invasive measurement of mixing inside a direct-contact heat transfer …

Study on two-phase mixing inside flow focusing/blurring nozzle by gray distribution analysis method

J Zhao, Z Ning, M Lü, C Sun - Applied Sciences, 2021 - mdpi.com
The application prospect of a flow focusing/blurring nozzle is broad but research on gas-
liquid flow inside the nozzle is not comprehensive. The gas-liquid mixing inside the nozzle is …

Experimental investigation on the uniformity optimization and chaos characterization of gas-liquid two-phase mixing process using statistical image analysis

L Zhang, K Yang, M Li, Q Xiao, H Wang - Advanced Powder Technology, 2021 - Elsevier
Taking the two-phase flow mixing process in the top-blown gas stirred tank as the research
object, a new strategy extracting the chaotic characteristics of the two-phase mixing state is …

Novel 3-D homogeneity metrics of multiple components in gas-stirred liquid systems

Q Xiao, Y Zhang, X Zhu, J Xu, J Pan, H Wang - Powder Technology, 2018 - Elsevier
Effective and powerful techniques to characterize the quality of a mixture with multiple
components have been recently reviewed and linked with mixing mechanisms using 2-D …

Interplay of fluids mixing and heat transfer in a dual-loop ORC direct contact heat exchanger used for waste heat utilization

Q Xiao, W Luo, J Huang, J Xu… - Proceedings of the …, 2020 - journals.sagepub.com
By bringing two immiscible fluids at different temperatures into a direct contact heat
exchanger (DCHE), bubble swarms are produced in the dual-loop ORC direct contact …