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| Sustainable Thermal Systems
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The Sustainable Thermal Systems Laboratory at Georgia Tech was started in
August of 2003 by Dr. Garimella and a team of graduate students who moved
from the
Iowa State University. The labs primary research focuses are on area of
sustainable energy systems, such as absorption and vapor compression heat
pumps, natural refrigerant space-conditioning systems, and automotive
climate control/propulsion cooling systems. Research also includes
phase-change in microchannel and compact heat exchangers, heat and mass
transfer in binary mixtures, and supercritical/transcritical fluid flow and
heat transfer. |
Lab Mission
and Methodology
•Develop energy
efficient thermal systems that have a
minimal adverse impact
on energy
and
material
resources.
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Improve Energy Efficiency
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•Thermally
activated space-conditioning systems
•High
heat flux components
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Reduce material consumption,
fluid inventories
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•Microchannel
condensers
•Miniaturized
absorbers/desorbers
•Dual
microchannel heat pumps
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Reduce/mitigate GWP/ODP
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•Alternative
refrigerant blends
•Natural
refrigerants
•Supercritical
cycles
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Facilitate implementation
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Increase
COPs, reduce material/fabrication costs through optimization |
•Life-cycle
cost based design
•Environmental
impact measures for evaluation –
reduced Greenhouse gas
emissions
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