Research results have identified the use of heat pipe heat exchangers (HPHXs) for heat recovery as a way to reduce the pre-cooling and re-heating energy. This paper suggests decoupling dehumidification from cooling to reduce energy consumption. The feasible usage and the energy saving potential...

The composite La–Ni–Al/Ni–S alloy film was obtained by molten salt electrolysis and aquatic electrodeposition in turn. The La–Ni–Al alloy film was prepared in Na3AlF6–La2O3–Al2O3 molten salt electrolyte by galvanostatic electrolysis at 100 mA cm−2. The results showed that La3+...

Let X1, X2,...,Xn be a time-homogeneous {0, 1}-valued Markov chain. Let Y = (Y1,...,Yr) denote the r-dimensional random vector, where Yi(i = l,...,r) represents the number of success runs of length ki(i = 1,...,r), k = (kl,...,kr). In this paper we obtain exact and recurrence formulae for the...

The cycle frosting and defrosting performance of two types of microchannel heat exchangers were investigated. All the processes were observed using a CCD camera to better understand the cycle frost mechanism. Ice blockage formed in the fin root gaps of the horizontal-tube sample because of water...

Given sequences of finite-state trials, an almost perfect match means that there exists at least k-1 matches between any subsequences of size k in each sequence. Let X1,X2,... be a sequence of {0,1}-valued Markov dependent random variables each resulting in either a match (Xi=1) or mismatch...

Human mortality patterns are modeled as the loss of an individual’s vitality, a measure of survival capacity, by senescence or when random extrinsic challenges exceed the remaining vitality. The model characterizes the stochastic rate of loss of vitality as a Wiener process and random...