Improvement in Performance of Multi-Pass Laminar Counterflow Heat Exchangers with External Refluxes
出版日期:2002-08-01 00:00:00
著者:Chii-Dong Ho; Ho-Ming Yeh; Yu-Chuan Tsai
著錄名稱、卷期、頁數:International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer 45(17), pp.3529-3547
摘要:A study on improvement in performance of multi-pass rectangular heat exchangers with uniform wall temperature and with external refluxes has been carried out under counterflow operations. An orthogonal expansion technique for solving such a conjugated Graetz problem is developed and applied to investigate a substantially improving heat transfer. A description of the average Nusselt number and the outlet dimensionless temperature is given. It is shown that for asymptotic average Nusselt numbers exit in counterflow as in single-flow operations. Numerical values of asymptotic average Nusselt numbers are reported for a wide range of Graetz numbers. Comparisons of analytical results are made with single-flow operations of the same size (without sheets inserted and without recycle). Considerable improvement in the heat transfer rate for large Graetz numbers is obtainable by introducing the recycle-effect concept in designing such double-pass operations. The effect of sheet location on the enhancement of heat transfer efficiency as well as on the increment of power consumption has been also discussed.
語言:en
ISSN:0017-9310 1879-2189
期刊性質:國外
通訊作者:Chii-Dong Ho
審稿制度:否
國別:GBR
出版型式:電子版,紙本