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• Coconut oil as an energy source?

  - 2009-05-01

  You've probably heard the one about the guillotine not working during the French Revolution, so they decided they would have to cancel the executions. But next in line to have his head chopped off was an engineer who put his head on the block and looked up...

• SCHOOL USES THERMAL ENERGY STORAGE TO SLASH ENERGY COSTS

  - 2009-03-01

  Fossil Ridge High School of the Poudre School District in Fort Collins, Colo., boasts a high-performance design. Compared to an existing, similarly sized 1,800-student school in the same district, Fossil Ridge requires about half of the electric demand. Whereas typical school designs use 3 watts/sq. ft., Fossil Ridge uses 1.6...

• Using off-peak precooling

  - 2009-03-01

  All buildings have thermal mass, i.e., components with physical mass that acts as a thermal capacitor and changes temperature in proportion to the physical mass and its specific heat. However, most buildings are not operated to take advantage of this thermal mass. That is, they maintain a desired temperature setpoint,...

• Seasonal energy storage

  - 2009-01-01

  Most buildings meet thermal loads using equipment and systems that generate or remove heat when building loads exist. Thermal energy storage TES enables buildings to meet heating and cooling loads using energy produced at other points in time. TES can be designed for storing and providing energy on...

• Thermal energy storage in the ground of a greenhouse by the polypropylene capillary heat exchanger

  - 2008-12-01

  INTRODUCTION Our terrestrial system can absorb 3 billion tons of carbon per annum whereas we produce the double of this quantity. We will produce the triple in 30 years if the tendencies continue. Gerard Megie, director of CNRS, point out that the carbon dioxide concentration in the atmosphere...

• Abengoa Solar Is Awarded Two R&D Contracts by the U.S. Department of Energy

  - 2008-10-01

  The Goal of the Two Projects Is to Develop New Concentrating Solar Power CSP and Thermal Storage Systems The Two R&D Awards Total $14.4 Million These New R&D Awards Increase to Five the Number of R&D Contracts Between Abengoa Solar and the U.S. DOE ...

• Numerical prediction of phase-change heat conduction of injection-molded high density polyethylene thick-walled parts via the enthalpy transforming model with mushy zone

  - 2008-09-01

  INTRODUCTION Transient heat conduction problems involving solidification/melting are usually referred to as the "Stefan problems" or "moving-boundary problems," which were raised by Stefan (1) in his works in relation to the ice formation early in 1891. Heat transfer issues of this kind are significant in many engineering applications...

• Experimental and numerical study of heat transfer in horizontal concentric annulus containing phase change material

  - 2008-08-01

  INTRODUCTION In many engineering applications such as thermal energy storage using phase change materials PCMs, the melting and solidification are important phenomena. Melting of the phase-change material gives rise to natural convection, while the flow structure could significantly affect phase change process. The essential feature of melting (or...

• State's Four Major Utilities Partner on Solar Project

  - 2008-06-30

  Companies Seek Proposals for Solar Plant Able to Power up to 52,000 Homes ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. -- New Mexico's four largest electricity providers have partnered to bring the first large-scale, commercial solar generating plant to the state. El Paso Electric, Xcel Energy, PNM, and Tri-State Generation and...

• USA: UNIVERSITY OF DAYTON AWARDED CONTRACT FOR THERMAL MANAGEMENT TECHNOLOGIES.

  - 2008-05-04

  University of Dayton Research Institute of Dayton, Ohio, is being awarded a contract for $5,665,000. This effort will focus on the understanding of the fundamental physical phenomena of thermal management technologies and the demonstration of the technologies. Such physical phenomena and those associated with...