The objective of this paper is to evaluate and optimize the performance of 1 kW integrated heat exchanger module for new generations of air cooled heat exchangers. The first objective is to minimize the ratio of the header frontal area to the entire heat exchanger frontal which will help to reduce the header size. The second objective is to minimize the pressure drop for the entire heat exchang...

In industrial environments, the heat exchanger is a necessary component to any strategy of energy conversion. Much of thermal energy used in industrial processes passes at least one times by a heat exchanger, and methods systems recovering thermal energy. This survey paper tries to presents in a systemic way an sample control of a heat exchanger by comparison between three controllers LQR (line...

one way to increase the heat transfer is to use perforated twisted tapes with different hole diameters, which largely improve heat transfer with an increase in the heat transfer area at the constant volume and more mixed flow. in the previous studies, the effect of nanofluids with perforated twisted tapes is less studied. in this work, the performance of water / iron oxide nanofluid in a double...

Temperature of fluid stream through tube is a key variable in shell and tube heat exchanger. However, this variable is not easy to measure straightly. Therefore, a state observer is designed to estimate the tube temperature variable for direct control of shell and tube heat exchanger. A dynamical state space model is used to describe the heat exchanger process. Kalman filter based observer is d...

Abstract—Liquid spray heat exchanger is the critical equipment of temperature regulating system by gaseous nitrogen which realizes the environment temperature in the range of -180 °C~+180 °C. Liquid nitrogen is atomized into smaller liquid drops through liquid nitrogen sprayer and then contacts with gaseous nitrogen to be cooled. By adjusting the pressure of liquid nitrogen and gaseous nitrogen...

This paper analyzes the optimal configuration and operating parameters of a heat exchanger in a geothermal district heating system. An optimization algorithm is presented for the nonlinear constrained problem to maximize the annual net profit for a system of counter-flow heat exchangers. Several parameters that affect the net profit are examined, including the mass flow rates of working fluids ...

0017-9310/$ see front matter 2010 Elsevier Ltd. A doi:10.1016/j.ijheatmasstransfer.2010.09.029 ⇑ Corresponding author. Tel.: +1 765 494 5705; fax E-mail address: [email protected] (I. Mud This study explores the use of a high-pressure metal hydride (HPMH), Ti1.1CrMn, to store hydrogen at high pressures (up to 310 bar) and temperatures below 60 C, conditions that are suitable for automobile...

for energy saving retrofit projects, its economics are usually evaluated in terms of capital investment and payback time. the capital investment is in direct relation to the total heat recovery area of the network and the payback time factor is base on both the area and the energy savings. the debottlenecking is an increased throughput, which can be profitable in economic sense. the combination...

debottlenecking of heat exchanger networks is a very important issue, when a plant is subject to process changes and/or increased throughput. in previous paper, a new targetting method was introduced, that allowed the designer to consider hydrodynamic constraints when debottlenecking a network. in this paper, a design procedure, which guarantees the consistency of the results of targetting stag...

The performance of the adsorption cooling system is assessed in terms of the heat transfer coefficients of adsorbent bed heat exchanger. These parameters in-turn determine the specific cooling capacity (SCC) and the coefficient of the performance (COP) of the adsorption cooling system. It was observed that the overall heat transfer coefficients of the heat exchanger have a direct linear relatio...