Carolina Costa Pereira
carolina costa pereira

Dr Carolina Costa Pereira

  

Biography

Dr Carolina Costa Pereira is a Lecturer in Mechanical Engineering at the School of Engineering & The Built Environment of Edinburgh Napier University.

She joined academia in 2016 as a Marie Curie Research Fellow to investigate phase change materials as latent heat thermal energy storages at Northumbria University, where she received her Postgraduate Certificate in Higher Education Practice.

She obtained her PhD in 2014 at Mondragon University (Basque Country, Spain) for her research in regenerative heat transfer in Stirling Engines for cogeneration and, her MSc and BEng from Universidad Simon Bolivar (Venezuela).

Before academia, she worked for almost 20 years as a senior research/product engineer in an industrial R&D Centre and the automotive industry. Her research interests lie in renewable energy, energy conversion systems, heat transfer problems and latent heat thermal energy storage for different applications.

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Solar Salt Latent Heat Thermal Storage for a Small Solar Organic Rankine Cycle Plant

Conference Proceeding
Costa, S., Mahkamov, K., Kenisarin, M., Lynn, K., Halimic, E., & Mullen, D. (2018)
Solar Salt Latent Heat Thermal Storage for a Small Solar Organic Rankine Cycle Plant. In Proceedings of the ASME 2018. https://doi.org/10.1115/es2018-7326
The design of the Latent Heat Thermal Storage System (LHTESS) was developed with thermal capacity of about 100 kWh as a part of small solar plant, based on the Organic Rankine...

Development of a Small Solar Thermal Power Plant for Heat and Power Supply to Domestic and Small Business Buildings

Conference Proceeding
Mahkamov, K., Pili, P., Manca, R., Leroux, A., Mintsa, A. C., Lynn, K., …Makhkamova, I. (2018)
Development of a Small Solar Thermal Power Plant for Heat and Power Supply to Domestic and Small Business Buildings. In Proceedings of the ASME 2018 Power Conference. https://doi.org/10.1115/power2018-7336
The small solar thermal power plant is being developed with funding from EU Horizon 2020 Program. The plant is configured around a 2-kWel Organic Rankine Cycle turbine and sol...

Numerical correlation for the pressure drop in Stirling engine heat exchangers

Journal Article
Barreno, I., Costa, S., Cordon, M., Tutar, M., Urrutibeascoa, I., Gomez, X., & Castillo, G. (2015)
Numerical correlation for the pressure drop in Stirling engine heat exchangers. International Journal of Thermal Sciences, 97, 68-81. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijthermalsci.2015.06.014
New correlation equations, to be valid for the pressure drop and heat exchange calculation under the developing transitional reciprocating flow encountered in Stirling heat ex...

The thermal non-equilibrium porous media modelling for CFD study of woven wire matrix of a Stirling regenerator

Journal Article
Costa, S., Barreno, I., Tutar, M., Esnaola, J., & Barrutia, H. (2015)
The thermal non-equilibrium porous media modelling for CFD study of woven wire matrix of a Stirling regenerator. Energy Conversion and Management, 89, 473-483. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.enconman.2014.10.019
Different numerical methods can be applied to the analysis of the flow through the Stirling engine regenerator. One growing approach is to model the regenerator as porous medi...

Dynamics of an oscillating Stirling heat pump

Journal Article
Barreno, I., Costa, S., Cordon, M., Urrutibeascoa, I., Gomez, X., & Mateos, M. (2014)
Dynamics of an oscillating Stirling heat pump. Applied Energy, 136, 704-711. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apenergy.2014.09.080
In this paper, a promising heat pump based on Stirling technology is examined. Based on the volume variation produced by the oscillating displacement of two pistons, the advan...

Experimental and numerical flow investigation of Stirling engine regenerator

Journal Article
Costa, S., Tutar, M., Barreno, I., Esnaola, J., Barrutia, H., García, D., …Prieto, J. (2014)
Experimental and numerical flow investigation of Stirling engine regenerator. Energy, 72, 800-812. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.energy.2014.06.002
This paper presents both preliminary experimental and numerical studies of pressure drop and heat transfer characteristics of Stirling engine regenerators. A test bench is des...

Numerical study of the heat transfer in wound woven wire matrix of a Stirling regenerator

Journal Article
Costa, S., Barrutia, H., Esnaola, J. A., & Tutar, M. (2014)
Numerical study of the heat transfer in wound woven wire matrix of a Stirling regenerator. Energy Conversion and Management, 79, 255-264. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.enconman.2013.11.055
Nusselt number correlation equations are numerically derived by characterizing the heat transfer phenomena through porous medium of both stacked and wound woven wire matrices ...

Numerical study of the pressure drop phenomena in wound woven wire matrix of a Stirling regenerator

Journal Article
Costa, S., Barrutia, H., Esnaola, J. A., & Tutar, M. (2013)
Numerical study of the pressure drop phenomena in wound woven wire matrix of a Stirling regenerator. Energy Conversion and Management, 67, 57-65. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.enconman.2012.10.014
Friction pressure drop correlation equations are derived from a numerical study by characterizing the pressure drop phenomena through porous medium of both types namely stacke...