Title

Experimental study of a two-phase ejector for CO2 transcritical refrigeration system

Journal title

Archives of Thermodynamics

Yearbook

2021

Volume

vol. 42

Issue

No 4

Affiliation

Haberschill, Philippe : University of Lyon, CNRS, INSA-Lyon, CETHIL UMR5008, F-69621, Villeurbanne, France ; Nehdi, Ezzeddine : Research Lab Energetic and Environment, National Engineering School of Tunis, Tunis El Manar University, Tunisia ; Kairouani, Lakdar : Research Lab Energetic and Environment, National Engineering School of Tunis, Tunis El Manar University, Tunisia ; Elakhdar, Mouna Abouda : Research Lab Energetic and Environment, National Engineering School of Tunis, Tunis El Manar University, Tunisia

Authors

Haberschill, Philippe ; Nehdi, Ezzeddine ; Kairouani, Lakdar ; Elakhdar, Mouna Abouda

Keywords

CO2 ; Ejector ; Transcritical cycle

Divisions of PAS

Nauki Techniczne

Coverage

217-246

Publisher

The Committee of Thermodynamics and Combustion of the Polish Academy of Sciences and The Institute of Fluid-Flow Machinery Polish Academy of Sciences

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Date

2022.01.17

Type

Article

Identifier

DOI: 10.24425/ather.2021.139660

Editorial Board

International Advisory Board

J. Bataille, Ecole Central de Lyon, Ecully, France

A. Bejan, Duke University, Durham, USA

W. Blasiak, Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden

G. P. Celata, ENEA, Rome, Italy

L.M. Cheng, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China

M. Colaco, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

J. M. Delhaye, CEA, Grenoble, France

M. Giot, Université Catholique de Louvain, Belgium

K. Hooman, University of Queensland, Australia

D. Jackson, University of Manchester, UK

D.F. Li, Kunming University of Science and Technology, Kunming, China

K. Kuwagi, Okayama University of Science, Japan

J. P. Meyer, University of Pretoria, South Africa

S. Michaelides, Texas Christian University, Fort Worth Texas, USA

M. Moran, Ohio State University, Columbus, USA

W. Muschik, Technische Universität Berlin, Germany

I. Müller, Technische Universität Berlin, Germany

H. Nakayama, Japanese Atomic Energy Agency, Japan

S. Nizetic, University of Split, Croatia

H. Orlande, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

M. Podowski, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, USA

A. Rusanov, Institute for Mechanical Engineering Problems NAS, Kharkiv, Ukraine

M. R. von Spakovsky, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, USA

A. Vallati, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy

H.R. Yang, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China