scholarly journals Analytical Study on Multi-stream Heat Exchanger Include Longitudinal Heat Conduction and Parasitic Heat Loads

2015 ◽  
Vol 67 ◽  
pp. 667-674 ◽  
Author(s):  
Weiping Zhu ◽  
Xiujuan Xie ◽  
Huihui Yang ◽  
Laifeng Li ◽  
Linghui Gong
1964 ◽  
Vol 86 (2) ◽  
pp. 105-117 ◽  
Author(s):  
G. D. Bahnke ◽  
C. P. Howard

A numerical finite-difference method of calculating the effectiveness for the periodic-flow type heat exchanger accounting for the effect of longitudinal heat conduction in the direction of fluid flow is presented. The method considers the metal stream in crossflow with each of the gas streams as two separate but dependent heat exchangers. To accommodate the large number of divisions necessary for accuracy and extrapolation to zero element area, use was made of a general purpose digital computer. The values of the effectiveness thus obtained are good to four significant figures while those values for the conduction effect are good to three significant figures. The exchanger effectiveness and conduction effect have been evaluated over the following range of dimensionless parameters. 1.0⩾Cmin/Cmax⩾0.901.0⩽Cr/Cmin⩽∞1.0⩽NTU0⩽1001.0⩾(hA)*⩾0.251.0⩾As*⩾0.250.01⩽λ⩽0.32


Author(s):  
B. Mathew ◽  
H. Hegab

This paper deals with the effect of axial heat conduction on the hot and cold fluid effectiveness of a balanced parallel flow microchannel heat exchanger. The ends of wall separating the fluids are subjected to Dirichlet boundary condition. This leads to heat transfer between the microscale heat exchanger and its surroundings and thereby leading to axial heat conduction through the wall separating the fluids. Three one dimensional energy equations were formulated, one for each of the fluids and one for the wall. These equations were solved using finite difference method. The effectiveness of the fluids depends on the NTU, axial heat conduction parameter, and the temperature of the ends of the wall separating the fluids. With decrease in temperature of the end wall at the inlet section of the fluids, while keeping the temperature of the other end wall constant, the effectiveness of the hot and cold fluid increased and decreased, respectively. When the temperature at the ends of the wall separating the heat exchanger is average of the inlet temperature of the fluids then there is no axial heat conduction through the heat exchanger. The effectiveness of a counter flow microchannel heat exchanger is better than that of a parallel flow microchannel heat exchanger subjected to similar operating conditions, i.e. axial heat conduction parameter and end wall temperatures.


2014 ◽  
Vol 1082 ◽  
pp. 309-314 ◽  
Author(s):  
Diogo L.F. Santos ◽  
Larissa S. Marquardt ◽  
Paulo H.D. Santos ◽  
Thiago Antonini Alves

This work presents a theoretical and experimental analysis of a heat exchanger assisted by five heat pipes made of copper with a metallic mesh 100 of stainless steel which was used as capillary structure. All heat pipes used water as the working fluid and were designed based on the capillary limit model. The heat pipes were developed and tested under heat loads varying from 20 to 50 W before application into the heat exchanger. The theoretical and experimental results were compared and all heat pipes worked satisfactorily. Thereafter, it is presented the development of heat pipe heat exchanger which was tested under heat loads varying from 100 to 250 W. The highest temperature measured on the external surface of the heat pipes was 90 oC and the heat exchanger thermal efficiency varied from 74 to 80%. It is showed that the use of a stainless steel mesh as a porous wick was proved to work successfully in heat pipes.


Author(s):  
Anand Desai ◽  
James Geer ◽  
Bahgat Sammakia

This paper presents the results of an analytical study of steady state heat conduction in multiple rectangular domains. Any finite number of such domains may be considered in the current study. The thermal conductivity and thickness of these domains may be different. The entire geometry composed of these connected domains is considered as adiabatic on the lateral surfaces and can be subjected to uniform convective cooling at one end. The other end of the geometry may be adiabatic and a specified, spatially varying heat generation rate can be applied in each of the domains. The solutions are found to be in agreement with known solutions for simpler geometries. The analytical solution presented here is very general in that it takes into account the interface resistances between the layers. One application of this analytical study relates to the thermal management of a 3-D stack of devices and interconnect layers. Another possible application is to the study of hotspots in a chip stack with non uniform heat generation. Many other potential applications may also be simulated.


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