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NEWS
January 2021. Congratulation Michele Calati, SMIL3D project has been funded by UNIPD for INNOVATIVE TEACHING ACTIVITIES
October 2020. Welcome Dr. Dario Guarda. New PhD student @NHTlab. Position granted by CCTES, HSLU, Lucern, CH. Co-Supervisor: Porf. Jörg Worlitschek, Dr. Philipp Schultz, Dr. Anastasia Stamatiou
see below the older news...
Nano Heat Transfer Lab aims at researching innovative solutions to enhance the two-phase heat transfer by the introduction of advanced materials, nano-depositions, nano-coatings, surface treatments, and enhanced nano- and micro-geometries.
In recent years, electronics have moved towards ever higher powers in increasingly reduced spaces, resulting in an enormous heat load amount to be removed. The two-phase cooling technologies are the only available solution to meet these critical needs.
In the Nano Heat Transfer Lab we study these innovative techniques thanks to a wide range of cutting-edge equipment available and the research group’s deep knowledge of the topic.
Previous news...
July 2019- Dott. Michele Calati joins the NHT Lab Staff as PhD Student. Our best wishes for this journey!
June 2019- NHT Lab partecipated @ the 1st International Conference on Nanofluids (ICNf). 24th – 26th June 2019, Castellon (Spain)
June 2019- NHT Lab partecipated @ the 2nd European Symposium on Nanofluids (ESNf). 24th – 26th June 2019, Castellon (Spain)
June 2019- NHT Lab partecipated @ the 37th UIT Heat Transfer Conference, held in Padova. Three papers have been presented:
- Cellular structured materials obtained via additive manufacturing for electronics cooling applications
- Effect of Refrigerant Properties Estimation on the Prediction Capabilities of the Well-Established Flow Boiling Heat Transfer and Pressure Drop Models for the New Low-GWP Refrigerants
- Water Pool boiling on Aluminum Metal Foams
June 2019 - Good news for today! "I am pleased to inform you that your paper "Phase Change Materials embedded in porous matrices for hybrid thermal energy storages: experimental results and modelling" has been accepted for publication in International Journal of Refrigeration."
May 2019- New paper published on the International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer titled: "Saturated vapour condensation of R134a inside a 4 mm ID horizontal smooth tube: Comparison with the low GWP substitutes R152a, R1234yf and R1234ze(E)"
April 2019- New paper published on the International Journal of Refrigeration titled: "Flow Boiling of Environmentally friendly Refrigerants inside a compact enhanced tube"
April 2019- NHT Lab will partecipate @ the 37th UIT Heat Transfer Conference that will be held in Padova, Italy next June.
March 2019- A paper titled "Optimized 3D periodic structures for advanced Latent Thermal Energy Storages (LTESs) via additive manufacturing" will be presented @ the 25th IIR International Congress of Refrigeration that will be held in Montreal, Canada next August #ICR2019.
March 2019 - Life ZeroGWP Meeting pic
February 2019- New paper published on the International Journal of Refrigeration titled: "R1233zd(E) flow boiling inside a 4.3 mm ID microfin tube".
February 2019 - Download here our newest paper! Application of Hybrid PCM Thermal Energy Storages with and without Al Foams in Solar Heating/Cooling and Ground Source Absorption Heat Pump Plant: An Energy and Economic Analysis
January 2019 - NHT Lab will partecipate @ the 25th IIR International Congress of Refrigeration that will be held in Montreal, Canada next August #ICR2019.
January 2019 - NHT presented some results of a prelimiary study on hydrocarbons as R410A alternative refrigerants by analyzing their thermo-physical properties at INNOVATION AND DESIGN in comfort in heat pump conference
Dicember 2018 - New paper published on the International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer titled: "SATURATED VAPOR CONDENSATION OF R410A INSIDE A 4 mm ID HORIZONTAL SMOOTH TUBE: COMPARISON WITH THE LOW GWP SUBSTITUTE R32".
October 2018 - Giulia Righetti (NHT lab) received the Award for the best presentation of young scholar at the ITTW2018 13-th International Conference on "Two-Phase Systems for Space and Ground Applications”, Xi’an, China, October 15-19, 2018, for the paper: " Surface Wettability Modification During Nanofluid Pool Boiling”
Authors: Simone Mancin, Giulia Righetti, Luca Doretti, Taylor. P. Allred, Justin A. Weibel, Claudio Zilio.
October 2018 - NHT is at Xi'An, China at the ITTW2018 13-th International Conference on "Two-Phase Systems for Space and Ground Applications” presenting two papers
Surface Wettability Modification During Nanofluid Pool Boiling
Water Pool Boiling in Aluminum Foams Porous Layers
September 2018 - 50 days Free access to our paper published on the International Journal of Refrigeration titled: "ANALYSIS OF THE FREEZING TIME OF CHICKEN BREAST FINITE CYLINDERS".
Free download paper link
September 2018 - The LIFE ZeroGWP website is on-air!
Here the link: http://www.lifezerogwp.eu/
August 2018 - New paper published on the International Journal of Refrigeration titled: "ANALYSIS OF THE FREEZING TIME OF CHICKEN BREAST FINITE CYLINDERS".
August 2018 - New paper published on International Journal of Low-Carbon Technologies titled: "Hybrid PCM—aluminium foams’ thermal storages: an experimental study". It is open access. Here the link to download it!
Free download paper link
August 2018 - New paper published on Heat and Mass Transfer Journal titled: "Theoretical analysis of free convection in a partially foam-filled enclosure" Authors: Kamel Hooman,Hosein Sadafi, Simone Mancin, Giulia Righetti, Gongming Xin.
August 2018 - New posters presented @ IHTC16 (Beijing, China)
July 2018 - Here we are @ PURDUE, presenting our work at the Herrick Lab Conference on Refrigeration and Air Conditioning. Follow the updates on Twitter
July 2018 - NHT is involved in the LIFE ZeroGWP European Project LIFE17 CCM/IT/000026 to implement the first double duct residential air conditioner with near-to-zero Global Warming Potential natural refrigerant.
July 2018 - New paper on PCM for advanced Hybrid TES... Here the link: https://doi.org/10.1093/ijlct/cty030
June 2018 - GL2018 in Valencia. Prof. Claudio Zilio is presenting our experimental results on natural refrigerants
June 2018 - NHT @ CECAM workshop on Hot Colloids. Invited lecture for Prof. Simone Mancin on nanoparticles deposition during nanofluids boiling.
June 2018 - New paper on Flow boiling of R1233zd(E) in a mini microfin tubes has been published... here the link: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijrefrig.2018.04.020
May 2018 - New IIR PCM conference will be hosted in Vicenza Campus announced during the PCM conf in Canada!!! www.gest.unipd.it/PCM2021
May 2018 - A new poster is ready to be presented at "Surface Wettability Effects on Phase Change Phenomena (SWEP)" Workshop that will be held in Brighton, UK.
Here the preview!