Segregazione patrimoniale e concorsualità nel diritto della crisi

Introduction

Energy resources have played a pivotal role in the progress of human society, supporting everything from essential daily needs to large-scale industrial development and digital infrastructures. This chapter introduces the fundamental concepts of energy sources and resources, which provide the foundation for the discussions in the following chapters, while underscoring how technological advancements, economic factors, and policy frameworks shape their availability and exploitation. The organiz...

Design of a cooling system for an electronic component within a manufacturing process

The present case study illustrates the design of a thermal management system based on fins for the cooling of an electronic board installed on a manufacturing robot. The case study introduces the analytical and numerical methodologies for the study of fins for the development of an accurate thermal design. Specific Nusselt number correlations for finned surfaces are considered, and the finite volume method is implemented for obtaining steady-state and transient numerical solutions. In particu...

Design and optimization of fin-assisted cooling for power transformers

The present case illustrates an analytical procedure to determine the optimal distance among fins to install on the surface of a power transformer in order to guarantee an adequate cooling. Thermal balances to describe the problem are developed in detail (i.e., fins equations, thermal properties as function of the temperature, etc.), and the calculation model can be developed within a spreadsheet. Only basic Nusselt number correlations are considered in the model to keep the solution simple a...