Plate heat exchanger can obtain higher thermal performance because of its advantages in high heat transfer coefficient, small scale, and can realize pure counter current flow. It has been widely applied in HVAC indust...
Heat exchangers are devices in which heat is transferred from one fluid to another fluid as a result of temperature difference. Heat exchanger presented in the current paper in which inside the tubes flows water, but ...
Low-grade Thermal Energy Conversion (LTEC) is a potential source of renewable energy. One of its forms is the Ocean Thermal Energy Conversion (OTEC) in which the temperature difference between the warm surface water a...
the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant Nos. 10332010,10721062);the National Key Basic Research Program of China (Grant No.2006CB601205);the Program for New Century Excellent Talents in the University of China (2004).
An optimization model considering a novel thermal performance index to be the objective function is proposed for minimizing the highest temperature in this paper.Firstly,the performance of the conventional heat conduc...
In this paper, air side heat transfer and pressure drop characteristics of twelve three-row plate finandtube heat exchanger cores of four types of fin configurations have been experimentally investigated.The heat tran...