This study explores the endothermic dehydriding (desorption) reaction that takes place in a high-pressure metal hydride (HPMH) hydrogen storage system when hydrogen gas is released to the fuel cell. The reaction is sustained by circulating warm fluid through a heat exchanger embedded in the HPMH powder. A systematic approach to modeling the dehydriding process is presented, which is validated a...

Cross flow water tube heat exchanger can be designed and made operational using methods of model building and simulation of the system. This paper projects the design and development of a model of cross flow water tube heat-exchanger system, simulation and validation of control analysis of different tuning methods. Feedback and override control system is developed using inputs acquired with the...

An experimental study on the effects of various factors(fin spacing, fin arrangement, air temperature, air humidity, and air velocity) on the frost growth and thermal performance of a finned-tube heat exchanger has been conducted under the frosting condition. It is found that the thermal performance of a heat exchanger is closely related to the blockage ratio of air flow passage due to the fros...

Existing refinery distillation systems are highly energy-intensive, and have complex column configurations that interact strongly with the associated heat exchanger network. An optimisation approach is developed for existing refinery distillation processes. The optimisation framework includes shortcut models developed for the simulation of the existing distillation column, and a retrofit shortc...

The use of natural convection, side-arm heat exchangers in solar domestic water heating systems is becoming a popular method of reducing system cost and electric demand. In this paper, we compare thermal performances of three natural convection heat exchangers mounted along the outside of the water storage tank and a commercial wraparound-tank heat exchanger to two forced-flow heat exchangers. ...

The focus of this work is the modeling and performance comparison of different models of pulse tube refrigerators, namely, the Orifice Pulse Tube Refrigerator (OPTR) and the Inertancetube Pulse Tube Refrigerator (IPTR) with both in-line as well as coaxial configurations. A detailed analysis of the flow and heat transfer in various components of the above mentioned models under oscillating flow ...

pinch technology is one of the best methods for designing a multi stream heat exchanger(mshe) through a network; current pinch-based methods, however, lead to a larger and more complicateddesign problems. the major drawback of the current methods is they result in designs having more individual mshe sections than essential, correspond to the enthalpy intervals on temperature vs. enthalpy diagra...

The continued high cost of energy has mandated that the Chemical Process Industries reduce operational and capital costs through process heat integration. However, the heat integration of process streams can lead to process structures that are difficult to operate and control. This paper addresses the control of heat exchanger networks and it shows the importance of dynamic simulations in the s...

-In this paper, an intelligent controller is applied to electrically heated micro heat exchanger. First, the dynamics of the micro heat exchanger is identified using Locally Linear Model Tree (LOLIMOT) algorithm. Then, an intelligent controller based on brain emotional learning algorithm is applied to the identified model. Modeling emotions has attracted much attention in recent years, both in ...