The thermal performance of a heat exchanger is important for the potential application in an integrated solar cell/module and thermoelectric generator (TEG) system. Usually, the thermal performance of a heat exchanger for TEGs is analysed by using 1D heat conduction theory which ignores the detailed phenomena associated with thermo-hydraulics. In this paper, thermal and momentum transports in t...

Three-dimensional CFD simulations are carried out to investigate heat transfer and fluid flow characteristics of a four-row plain fin-and-tube heat exchanger using the Commercial Computational Fluid Dynamics Code ANSYS CFX 12.0. Heat transfer and pressure drop characteristics of the heat exchanger are investigated for Reynolds numbers ranging from 400 to 2000. Fluid flow and heat transfer are s...

A software for the thermal and hydraulic design of shell and tube heat exchangers with flowinduced vibration checks has been developed in a Windows-based Delphi programming environment. Its user-friendly input format and excellent colour graphics features make it an excellent tool for the teaching, learning and preliminary design of shell and tube heat exchangers. Design methodology is based on...

An experimental study for air-side thennal-hydraulic performance of brazed aluminum heat exchangers under dehumidifYing conditions has been performed. For 30 samples of louvered fin heat exchangers with different geometrical parameters, the heat transfer and pressure drop characteristics for wet surface were evaluated. The test was conducted for air-side Reynolds number in the range of 80-300 a...

Enormously large amount of heat produced by human activities is now mostly wasted into the environment without use. To realize a sustainable society, it is important to develop practical solutions for waste heat recovery. Here, we demonstrate that a tubular thermoelectric device made of tilted multilayer of Bi(0.5)Sb(1.5)Te3/Ni provides a promising solution. The Bi(0.5)Sb(1.5)Te3/Ni tube allows...

In This paper uses an Attractive-Repulsive Particle Swarm Optimization (ARPSO) method for determining the optimal parameters of proportional-integral-derivative (PID) controller for temperature control of a shell and tube heat exchanger. Most of the heat exchange process is characteristic of nonlinear, large time delay and time varying. For such process it is very difficult to tune its controll...

Shell and Helical Tube Exchanger merupakan salah satu alat penukar kalor dengan memanfaatkan 2 pipa yaitu bagian luar dan dalam (Helical tube). Fluida panas mengalir pada dalam, fluida pendingin berlawanan arah (Shell), sehingga terjadi proses yang di dari dipindahkan ke dingin mengalir. Proses ini berjalan terus menerus. Penelitian bertujuan untuk mengetahui kinerja shell helical tube heat exc...

Application of nanofluid and coiled tubes are two passive methods for increasing the heat transfer. In the present study, the turbulent flows of water and nanofluid in coiled tubes heat exchanger were numerically studied. CuO-water nanofluid containing 1 vol% copper oxide nanoparticles was used and single-phase approach was considered for nanofluid flow. The effect of different geometrical para...