This paper presents a Bond Graph (BG) modelling approach to add and exploit on existing Modelica models some information on the energy structure of the systems. The developed models in the ThermosysPro library (Modelica-based) are already validated against the experimental data in previous works. A plate heat exchanger (PHE), which is equipment for nuclear power plants, is considered as a case ...

The configuration of a plate heat exchanger comprises its number of plates, pass arrangement, location of the inlet and outlet connections and type of channel flow. The effective optimization of the configuration is a complex task since it is not possible to represent the mathematical model of the exchanger explicitly in the configuration elements. To overcome this limitation, the configuration...

abstract: in this study, al 2 o 3 /eg and tio 2 /eg nanofluids as coolants have been used in the double-tube heat exchanger. the hot solvent inlet heat exchanger must be cooled down with a specified amount. we can use nanofluids as coolants in the heat exchanger for optimization of the heat transfer area. therefore, the efficacy of nanofluids as coolants is verified. furthermore, flow rate of c...

Waste heat recovery is very important, because not only it reduces the expenditure of heat generation, but also it is of high priority in environmental consideration, such as reduction in greenhouse gases. One of the devices is used in waste heat recovery is heat pipe heat exchanger.Anexperimental research has been carried out to investigate the hydrodynamic and thermal performance of a gas...

In the present work an experimental investigation was conducted to obtain a correlation for the determination of convective heat transfer coefficients of stirred yoghurt in a plate heat exchanger. A rheological study was carried out in order to characterise the stirred yoghurt flow behaviour, evaluating its dependency both on shear rate and temperature. A shift in the temperature dependency was...

This paper presents a comparison between different multiobjective optimization approaches that can be used to optimize the design of thermal equipment. Plate heat exchanger is taken as case study to apply different optimization techniques. The thermal-hydrodynamic characteristics of single phase turbulent flow in chevron-type plate heat exchangers with sinusoidal-shaped corrugations have been u...

Designs of heat exchangers have mostly been disconnected to the performance of thermoelectric generator (TEG) systems. The development work, mostly focused on thermoelectric materials, required a significant amount of engineering parametric analysis. In this work, a micro plate-fin heat exchanger applied to a TEG is investigated and optimized to maximize the output power and the cost performanc...

In the present study, the main objective is to evolve a correlation to predict liquid-liquid two-phase heat transfer coefficients in a spiral plate heat exchanger. Experimental studies were conducted in a spiral plate heat exchanger using the liquid-liquid two-phase system of water-diesel in different volume fractions and flow rates as the cold fluid. Experiments were conducted by varying the v...