Advanced Heat Exchangers for Waste Heat Recovery Applications

Heat Exchangers

Heat exchangers: types .................................................................................................................................. 1 Plate heat exchangers ................................................................................................................................ 4 Shell-and-tube heat exchangers ............................................................

Heat Exchangers

Heat exchangers: types .................................................................................................................................. 1 Plate heat exchangers ................................................................................................................................ 4 Shell-and-tube heat exchangers ............................................................

Heat Exchangers for Thermoelectric Devices

Heat exchangers play an important role in the performance of thermal machines, namely, electric power generators, engines and refrigerators. Regarding thermoelectrics, this influence is even higher, owing to the difficulty of transferring heat from the small surface area of a typical thermoelectric module to a bigger one. Particularly, in the hot face of an average 40 mm x 40 mm Peltier module,...

Compact Heat Exchangers for Microturbines

With distributed power generation market, the most economical solution today is to generate power through small gas turbine systems, arbitrarily categorized as microturbines (5 – 200 kW) and miniturbines (200 – 500 kW). The thermal efficiency of such microturbines is about 20% or less if no recuperator is used in the system. Using a recuperator (regenerator can also be considered but has a numb...

Suitability of Polymer Heat Exchangers for Air Conditioning Applications