Hydraulic performance of a morphology-based stream channel design

2005 ◽  
Vol 41 (11) ◽  
Author(s):  
Sean M. Smith ◽  
Karen L. Prestegaard
2022 ◽  
Vol 961 (1) ◽  
pp. 012010
Author(s):  
Ali M Aljelawy ◽  
Amer M Aldabbagh ◽  
Falah F Hatem

Abstract One of the most recently important heat exchangers is the Printed circuit heat exchanger especially in the nuclear power plant and aerospace applications due to its very compact geometry and small print foot. This paper presents a 3D numerical investigation on the thermo-hydraulic performance of PCHE with new non-uniform channel design configuration. The new channel design is a rectangular cross section with repeated converging diverging sections or periodic diamond shape. The influence of three design parameters on the heat exchanger performance was studied and optimized, pitch length (p), length ratio (β) and the converging diverging angle (α). The computational models investigated in this study based on the operating conditions of the intermediate heat exchanger of very high temperature gas cooled reactor with helium as the working fluid under operating pressure of 3Mpa and inlet temperature of 800 K. The Reynolds number varied from 200 to 2000. Different Pitch lengths were used (1.59, 3.18, 6.36, and 12.73) mm, and different C-D angle (0, 4.5, 6, 7.5, 9, 10.5 and 12) and also different length ratios were used (0.2, 0.25 and 0.333). Three performance parameters were studied the Nusselt number, friction factor and the overall performance evaluation factor. Results show that the thermal performance enhanced with decreasing the pitch length and with increasing C-D angle and it was shown that this enhancement was found only at high Reynolds number above 1400. The best performance obtained at p=3.18, α=6 and β=0.25 based on the overall evaluation performance.


Irriga ◽  
2003 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 63-68 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marco Antonio Fonseca Conceição ◽  
Rubens Duarte Coelho

RELAÇÃO VAZÃO x PRESSÃO EM MICROASPERSORES DAN 2001 SOB CONDIÇÃO ADVERSA DE OPERAÇÃO  Marco Antônio Fonseca ConceiçãoEmbrapa Uva e Vinho, Estação Experimental de Jales, Jales, SP. CP 241. CEP 15700-000.E-mail: [email protected] Duarte CoelhoDepartamento de Engenharia Rural, Escola Superior de Agricultura “Luiz de Queiroz”, Universidade de São Paulo, Piracicaba, SP. CP 09, CEP 13418-900.E-mail: [email protected]  1 RESUMO  Alguns microaspersores possuem membranas que regulam a sua pressão de operação, mantendo a vazão praticamente estável dentro de uma faixa de pressão na rede hidráulica. Operadores de irrigação no campo, muitas vezes com baixo nível de instrução e sem orientação profissional qualificada, visando reduzir problemas de entupimento ou para diminuir o tempo de irrigação, costumam retirar as membranas autocompensantes para aumentar a vazão do emissores, o que pode comprometer o desempenho hidráulico do sistema. Para avaliar o efeito da retirada da membrana  sobre as vazões dos microaspersores, no presente trabalho determinou-se as relações entre pressão e vazão para sete bocais do microaspersor DAN 2001, operando na ausência da membrana autocompensante. As curvas pressão-vazão sem as membranas autocompensantes apresentaram comportamento potencial com expoentes variando entre 0,58 e 0,64. As vazões dos microaspersores sem as membranas aumentaram de forma inversamente proporcional aos diâmetros dos emissores, quando comparadas às vazões nominais com as membranas.  UNITERMOS: Hidráulica, irrigação, microaspersão.  CONCEIÇÃO, M.A.F.; COELHO, R.D. FLOW X PRESSURE RELATIONSHIP FOR DAN 2001 MICROSPRINKLERS UNDER ADVERSE CONDITION  2 ABSTRACT  Many types of microsprinklers have a self-compensating membrane to regulate their pressure, keeping a stable flow. Many producers usually take the membranes off to reduce clogging problems  or irrigation time. This procedure could endanger the system hydraulic performance. To evaluate the effect of taking off the self-compensating membrane from microsprinklers it was determined, in the present work, the pressure-flow relationship for seven Dan 2001 microsprinkler nozzles operating without the membrane. The pressure-flow curves presented a potential behavior with the exponents varying from 0.58 to 0.64. Microsprinkler flows without the membranes increased inversely proportional to the emitter diameters, comparing to the nominal flows using the membranes.  KEYWORDS: Hydraulic, irrigation, microsprinkler.


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