Showing 25 results for Jahanshah
N. Sahraiyan, S.m.h. Mohammadi, E. Jahanshahi Javaran,
Volume 20, Issue 2 (February 2020)
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The application of solar energy for space cooling has been increasingly considered in Iran and other countries in the last two decades. In this study, two different configurations of a solar assisted refrigeration system have been studied. The first system is the combination of a lithium bromide vapor absorption refrigeration system and flat plate collectors. The other system is consisted of a compression refrigeration system and thermal photovoltaic panels. For this purpose, 32% of the roof area of the building has been covered with 105 flat plate collectors, each with a total area of 1.591 m2, or 288 photovoltaic panels each with an area of 0.556 m2. Both systems have been compared in terms of energy, exergy, and economic viewpoints. This comparison has been conducted for providing the 70 kW cooling capacity system required for an office building with an area of 500 m2. The results of this study showed that at an evaporator temperature of 5°C and the ambient temperature of 27°C, the coefficient of performance of the compression chiller is 3.5 and the absorption chiller is 0.71. Also, the total energy efficiency and the total exergy efficiency in the compression chiller system combined with thermal photovoltaic panels are 7.43% and 8.25% respectively. Those two parameters for the absorption chiller combined with flat plate collectors are 9.16% and 6.66%, respectively. In the economic analysis, the annual life cycle cost for the compression chiller system combined with thermal photovoltaic collectors is 9710 $ and this cost for the absorption chiller system combined with flat plate collectors is estimated 7649 $.
R. Safa , A. Soltani Goharrizi , S. Jafari , E. Jahanshahi Javaran,
Volume 20, Issue 3 (March 2020)
Abstract
In the present study, the combination of concentration lattice Boltzmann method with a smoothed profile method was used to simulate the dissolution of solid circular particles between parallel plates that are moving in opposite directions. The hydrodynamic simulation was performed based on the single relaxation time lattice Boltzmann method and the convection-diffusion equation was used to determine the concentration of the solute in the liquid phase. Additionally, the smoothed profile method was used to calculate the no-slip boundary condition at the liquid-solid interface and concentration forces. To evaluate the accuracy of the proposed model, the simulation results were compared with the empirical data in the literature. The difference between the simulation results and the empirical data for the Sherwood number at different Peclet numbers was less than 2%. The results show that the smallest dissolution time in systems with different volume fractions is in a system with the least volume fraction. As the volume fraction increases, the solid-liquid mass transfer driving force is decreased in the system. The simulation results showed that by increasing the Reynolds number from 0.05 to 0.38, the time required to reach the normalized volume fraction to 0.05 of its initial value reduced from 0.36 s to 0.17 s. Also, by increasing the Peclet number from 5.5 to 115, the Sherwood number increased from 1.74 to 4.06. In addition, the increase in the Schmidt number in the system leads to a slower dissolution time. Finally, the polydispersity in the system was studied.
S. Amiri Dogahe, E. Jahanshahi Javaran, M. Abdolzadeh Dashtkhaki, S. Sadeghi,
Volume 20, Issue 6 (June 2020)
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In this study, techno-economic comparison of monocrystalline and concentrating photovoltaic power plants for the selected cities of Kerman province was carried out. After modeling the implied photovoltaic systems and validating the modeling results of the monocrystslline photovoltaic system with the measured data of an installed 5kW monocrystalline photovoltaic power plant at the Graduate University of Advanced Technology, daily and yearly electrical energies production analysis for both plants was presented. Then, the electrical efficiency and the performance factors, including capacity factor, final yield, reference yield and the performance ratio were determined. The economic analysis results showed that the northern cities of Kerman province had more favorable economic indicators, so internal rate of return, balanced cost of electricity, net present value, and benefit-cost ratio for the monocrystal photovoltaic plant were 21-22.1%, 13.3-13.9 dollars per kilowatt, 2-4.2 thousand dollars, and 1.04-1.09, respectively and for the concentrating photovoltaic plant were 24.9-28.6%, 8.8-10.2 dollars per kilowatt, 17.1-30.5 thousand dollars, and 1.24-1.43, respectively. Finally, a comprehensive comparison was made between the conventional PV systems and the CPV system for two scenarios: the same capital investment cost and the same nominal installed power. Results showed that at both scenarios, the concentrating photovoltaic is superior to the monocrystalline PV plant, in a way that Kerman and Jiroft cities, as the best cities, had the net present value of 30.5 thousand dollars and 21 thousand dollars, respectively.
Hadi Asharioun, Mohammad Jahanshahifar, Ehsan Davoudi, Mahmood Mazare,
Volume 23, Issue 7 (July 2023)
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In this paper, a finite-time fault tolerant controller based on sliding mode algorithm, as a robust control method, is presented to control the attitude stabilization of the quadrotor system in the presence of actuator fault and uncertainty. The controller is designed based on the nonlinear model of a quadrotor and its stability analysis is performed according to the Lyapunov stability theorem. Also, regarding some weaknesses of MEMS sensors such as partly high noise and bias error, an extended Kalman filter is designed and implemented in order to merge sensors data and reduce the noise effect on the outputs. To validate the controller performance, the experimental tests is implemented on a full-scale quadrotor in real-time. The evaluation of the designed strategy is carried out in different scenarios, no fault in the actuators and a partial loss of effectiveness of an actuator as well as uncertainty in the quadrotor parameters. The experimental results reveal the superiority of the sliding mode tolerant strategy over feedback linearization in the presence of various faults and uncertainty effects.
Reza Zanganeh, Amin Safi Jahanshahi, Behnam Akhoundi,
Volume 24, Issue 4 (April 2024)
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With the emergence and expansion of additive manufacturing processes, especially the fused deposition modeling process, extensive research has been conducted on these processes. One important research area is strengthening the printed parts by the fused deposition modeling method. One of the main areas of research is related to the strengthening of printed parts by the fused deposition modeling method. This process enables the production of complex structures and the customization of parts. On the other hand, polylactic acid material is one of the main materials used in this process, which has been noticed over other materials due to its biocompatibility and biodegradability properties. In this research, the effect of annealing heat treatment on the compressive strength and modulus of porous samples has been investigated with the approach of using them in tissue engineering as a scaffold for bone tissue. The samples are 3D printed with wiggle, grid, and honeycomb patterns and with filling percentages of 40, 70, and maximum. In addition, the effect of two parameters, the extrusion width, and the layer height, has also been investigated. To create porous structures with interconnected porosities, the pattern of filling in each layer is rotated to a certain extent, and this causes the introduction of new porous structures that can have wide applications such as being used as scaffolds in tissue engineering. After evaluating the compressive mechanical properties of the samples, the same samples were heat treated, and then their compressive mechanical properties were also evaluated. The obtained results show that the maximum compressive strength and modulus occur in the sample with an extrusion width of 0.6 mm, layer height of 0.25 mm, wiggle filling pattern, and maximum filling percentage. The values of compressive strength and modulus for the non-heat-treated sample are equal to 84.51 MPa and 2.28 GPa respectively and for the heat-treated sample, it is equal to 105.44 MPa and 2.29 GPa respectively.
