Dr Yunting Ge

Academic Career

Dr. Ge is currently a Senior Lecturer in the Building Services Subject Group and a member of the Centre for Energy and Built Environment Research (CEBER), School of Engineering and Design of Brunel University. He has about fifteen years’ research experience in the areas of refrigeration, air conditioning, building energy and controls, and renewable energy. He is now a Principle or co investigator in several funded research projects.

Industrial Career

Application Engineer, Siemens Building Technologies, 2003-2005.

Research Interests

Investigation of advanced supermarket energy control systems including refrigeration, air conditioning and buildings. Application of tri-generation systems in supermarket. Simulation and optimal design of various refrigeration systems and components. Heat and mass transfer analysis for different types of heat exchangers.

Previous Research

• Principle investigator, Performance Investigation of Basement Central Heating Systems: Simulation and Experiments, funded by EPSRC. (Jan. 2008-Jan. 2011)
• Co-investigator , Fostering the development of technologies and practices to reduce the energy inputs into the refrigeration of food, Funded by DEFRA, R25150 (Jan. 2006 to May 2009).
• Co-investigator, LINK AFM 251: Integration of Tri-Generation and CO2 Based Refrigeration Systems for Energy Conservation in the Food Industry , Funded by DEFRA. (April 2007 to March 2010)
• Co-investigator, Minimisation of Emissions from Food Retailing - Feasibility study . Funded by DTI (1 April 2007 - 30 September 2007).

Teaching

Energy Conversion Technologies, Building Management Systems and Controls, Electrical Services and MSc Dissertations.

Publications

Journal Papers

(2012) Ge, YT. and Tassou, SA., The impact of geometric structure and flow arrangement on the performance of CO2 evaporators in multi-deck medium temperature display cabinets, International Journal of Refrigeration 35 (1) : 142- 149

(2011) Fsadni, AM., Ge, YT. and Lamers, AG., Measurement of bubble detachment diameters from the surface of the boiler heat exchanger in a domestic central heating system, APPLIED THERMAL ENGINEERING 31 2808- 2818

(2011) Ge, YT. and Tassou, SA., Thermodynamic analysis of transcritical CO₂ booster refrigeration systems in supermarket, Energy Conversion and Management 52 (4) : 1868- 1875

(2011) Ge, YT. and Tassou, SA., Performance evaluation and optimal design of supermarket refrigeration systems with supermarket model "SuperSim", Part I: Model description and validation, International Journal of Refrigeration 34 (2) : 527- 539

(2011) Ge, YT. and Tassou, SA., Performance evaluation and optimal design of supermarket refrigeration systems with supermarket model "SuperSim", Part II: Model applications, International Journal of Refrigeration 34 (2) : 540- 549

(2011) Tassou, SA., Ge, Y., Hadawey, A. and Marriott, D., Energy consumption and conservation in food retailing, Applied Thermal Engineering 31 (2-3) : 147- 156

(2010) Ge, YT., Tassou, SA. and Hadawey, A., Simulation of multi-deck medium temperature display cabinets with the integration of CFD and cooling coil models, Applied Energy 87 (10) : 3178- 3188

(2010) Tassou, SA., Lewis, JS., Ge, YT., Hadawey, A. and Chaer, I., A review of emerging technologies for food refrigeration applications, Applied Thermal Engineering 30 (4) : 263- 276

(2009) Ge, YT. and Tassou, SA., Control optimisation of CO2 cycles for medium temperature retail food refrigeration systems, International Journal of Refrigeration 32 (6) : 1376- 1388

(2009) Tassou, SA., De-Lille, G. and Ge, YT., Food transport refrigeration – approaches to reduce energy consumption and environmental impacts of road transport, Applied Thermal Engineering 29 (8-9) : 1467- 1477

(2009) Ge, YT., Tassou, SA. and Chaer, I., Modelling and performance evaluation of a low-temperature ammonia–water absorption refrigeration system, International Journal of Low-Carbon Technologies 4 (2) : 68- 77

(2009) Ge, YT., Tassou, SA., Chaer, I. and Suguartha, N., Performance analysis of a combined cooling heating and power system, UECTC'09 - Proceedings of 2009 US-EU-China Thermophysics Conference - Renewable Energy

(2009) Ge, YT., Tassou, SA., Chaer, I. and Suguartha, N., Performance evaluation of a tri-generation system with simulation and experiment, Applied Energy 86 (11) : 2317- 2326

(2009) Ge, YT. and Cropper, RT., Simulation and performance evaluation of finned-tube CO2 gas coolers for refrigeration systems, Applied Thermal Engineering 29 (5-6) : 957- 965

(2008) Ge, YT. and Cropper, R., Performance simulation of refrigerated display cabinets operating with refrigerants R22 and R404A, Applied Energy 85 (8) : 694- 707

(2007) Tassou, SA., Chaer, I., Sugiartha, N., Ge, YT. and Marriott, D., Application of trigeneration systems to the food retail industry, Energy Conversion and Management 48 (11) : 2988- 2995

(2005) Ge, YT. and Cropper, R., Performance evaluations of air-cooled condensers using pure and mixture refrigerants by four-section lumped modelling methods, Applied Thermal Engineering 25 (10) : 1549- 1564

(2004) Ge, YT. and Cropper, R., Air-cooled condensers in retail systems using R22 and R404A refrigerants, Applied Energy 78 (1) : 95- 110

(2002) Kolokotroni, M., Ge, YT. and Katsoulas, D., Monitoring and modelling indoor air quality and ventilation in classrooms within a purpose-designed naturally ventilated school, Indoor and Built Environment 11 (6) : 316- 326

(2001) Ge, YT. and Tassou, SA., Simulation of the performance of single jet air curtains for vertical refrigerated display cabinets, Applied Thermal Engineering 21 (2) : 201- 219

(2000) Ge, YT. and Tassou, SA., Mathematical modelling of supermarket refrigeration systems for design, energy prediction and control, Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part A: Journal of Power and Energy 214 (2) : 101- 114

Book Chapters

(2008) Tassou, SA. and Ge, Y., Reduction of refrigeration energy consumption and environmental impacts in food retailing. In: Klemeš, J., Smith, R. and Kim, J-K. eds. Handbook of Water and Energy Management in Food Processing. Woodhead Publishing