Thermal response test (TRT) is an established method to determine design parameters for borehole heat exchanger (BHE) systems; borehole thermal resistance and effective ground thermal conductivity. Most commonly, these tests are performed with heat injection, using the same assumed power level as the planned BHE system. For a thorough description of TRT and current activities around the world, ...

In the presented paper two quality parameters are used to represent the state of a heat exchanger. The remaining lifetime can be estimated by trend regression. Also of interest is the uncertainty of the predicted lifetime which is determined by the confidence interval of the parameter estimation. These algorithms developed are used in this paper in an off-line evaluation of the measurements on ...

In the present study, the heat transfer coefficients of benzene in a spiral plate heat exchanger are investigated. The test section consists of a Plate of width 0.3150 m, thickness 0.001 m and Mean hydraulic diameter of 0.01 m. The mass flow rate of water (Hot fluid) is varying from 0.5 kg sec to 0.8 kg sec and the mass flow rate of benzene (cold fluid) varies from 0.4 kg sec to 0.7 kg sec. Exp...

In most domestic and commercial refrigeration systems, frost forms on the air-side surface of the air-to-refrigerant heat exchanger. Frost-tolerant designs typically employ a large fin spacing in order to delay the need for a defrost cycle. Unfortunately, this approach does not allow for a very high air-side heat transfer coefficient, and the performance of these heat exchangers is often air-si...

Enhancement of heat transfers in counterflow plate heat exchanger due to presence of an intermediate auxiliary fluid flow is investigated. The intermediate auxiliary channel is supported by transverse conducting pins. The momentum and energy equations for the primary fluids are solved numerically and validated against a derived approximate analytical solution. A parametric study including the e...

this paper presents a comprehensive theoretical, experimental, and economic study on the application of nanofluids as heat transfer fluid in waste heat recovery systems. the research work was conducted in a steel-making complex in which a plate heat exchanger had been used to recover heat from hot process water. the system was theoretically modelled and the effects of using nanofluids as heat t...

In this paper, a fuzzy model-based algorithm is developed for leak detection in a pilot heat exchanger. A dynamic fuzzy model is first derived from input-output measurements using a fuzzy clustering technique. This model is run in parallel to the process for residual generation. The detection scheme has been tested and validated using real data from a co-current heat exchanger, and has proven t...

Research results have identified the use of heat pipe heat exchangers (HPHXs) for heat recovery as a way to reduce the pre-cooling and re-heating energy. This paper suggests decoupling dehumidification from cooling to reduce energy consumption. The feasible usage and the energy saving potential of heat pipe heat exchanger at the air handler dedicated in accomplishing this objective is investiga...

an experimental database is compiled in order to fingerprint the scales formed over the hot surfaces of heat exchangers, in cooling water systems or other systems with similar chemistry. to collect these data, a dynamic simulating pilot plant was designed with considerable application flexibility among which simultaneous flow of water with different velocity and heat fluxes to three simulating ...