The paper is devoted to advanced control of a tubular heat exchanger with focus to energy savings. The controlled tubular heat exchanger (HE) was used for petroleum pre-heating by hot water. The controlled output was the measured temperature of the petroleum in the output stream and the control input was the volumetric flow rate of hot water. Two advanced control strategies were investigated in...

The application aims to determine the thermal and hydraulic performance of externally finned, counter-flow, Shell, Tube Heat Exchangers (STHE). refers cooling machine oil flowing in annular region, including non-spherical cylindrical nanoparticles Boehmite Alumina. inlet temperature is equal 80 °C. Sea water a coolant with an 20°C. main parameter optimization process number finned tubes used fo...

A shell and tube heat exchanger is a class of heat exchanger designs seen most common type of heat exchanger in oil refineries and other large chemical processes, and is suited for higher-pressure applications. As its name implies, this type of heat exchanger consists of a shell (a large pressure vessel) with a bundle of tubes inside it. One fluid runs through the tubes, and another fluid flows...

many studies are performed by researchers about shell and tube heat exchanger but the multi-objective big bang-big crunch algorithm (mobba) technique has never been used in such studies. this paper presents application of thermal-economic multi-objective optimization of shell and tube heat exchanger using mobba. for optimal design of a shell and tube heat exchanger, it was first thermally model...

Title of Document Application of Plate Heat Exchanger for Low Temperature Lift Heat Pump Systems Song Li, Master of Science, 2012 Advisor Professor Reinhard Radermacher, Department of Mechanical Engineering In this thesis I investigated the energy saving potential of a low temperature lift heat pump (LTLHP) such as water source heat pump (WSHP), and studied the utilization of a plate heat excha...

An optimization method for determining the best configuration(s) of gasketed plate heat exchangers is presented. The objective is to select the configuration(s) with the minimum heat transfer area that still satisfies constraints on the number of channels, the pressure drop of both fluids, the channel flow velocities and the exchanger thermal effectiveness. The configuration of the exchanger is...

Title of Dissertation: TRANSIENT MODELING OF TWO-STAGE AND VARIABLE REFRIGERANT FLOW VAPOR COMPRESSION SYSTEMS WITH FROSTING AND DEFROSTING Hongtao Qiao Doctor of Philosophy, 2014 Dissertation Directed By: Reinhard Radermacher, Professor Department of Mechanical Engineering This thesis presents the development of an advanced modeling framework for the transient simulation of vapor compression s...

This paper carries out a performance analysis based on the first and second laws of thermodynamics for heat recovery vapor generator (HRVG) of ammonia-water mixture when the heat source is low-temperature energy in the form of sensible heat. In the analysis, effects of the ammonia mass concentration and mass flow ratio of the binary mixture are investigated on the system performance including t...

This study examines experimentally the performance of a horizontal triple concentric tube heat exchanger TCTHE made copper metal using water as cooling fluid and oil-40 hot fluid. Hot enters inner annular in direction at temperature 50, 60 70 oC flow rate 20 l/hr. On other hand, outer reverse (counter current flow) 25 rates 10, 15, 20, 25, 30 35 The is composed three tubes with diameters 34.925...