Improving Heat Exchanger Functionality with Nanobubble Technology to Achieve Net Zero Goals

Abstract

Climate change is a critical environmental issue for this and
future generations. Natural and human-induced activities have
already warmed the global average surface temperature by 1.1°C.
There is international agreement that climate change requires an
immediate response before the planet reaches a point after which it
cannot recover. As the primary driver being a change in the earth’s
atmosphere, it is vital that companies, countries, and individuals
do whatever is possible to reduce this condition. Greenhouse gases
(GHG) are emissions including carbon monoxide, methane, sulfur
dioxide, fluorinated gases, nitrous oxide, and others which are
released into the atmosphere through both natural and industrial
processes [1]. They are linked to environmental pollution and
atmospheric temperature rise. Along with nitrogen, oxygen,
helium, and other gases, they envelop the Earth as a blanket.
GHG provides protection and predictable weather patterns
by allowing ultraviolet and infrared wavelengths to warm the
earth’s surface and then mediating its escape back into space.
Human activities, primarily through the combustion of fossil
fuels, have upset the balance of the natural system allowing for
an increase in atmospheric GHG. Due to an abundance of these
gases the atmosphere can hold more heat, thus increasing the
global temperature.