Transient response of multipass plate heat exchangers with axial thermal dispersion in fluid

DOI10.1016/S0017-9310(00)00060-0MaRDI QIDQ1590487zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Sarit Kumar Das, K. Murugesan

Publication date 2000

Published in International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1016/s0017-9310(00)00060-0

zbMATH Keywords

axial dispersion of heatLaplace transformmultipass plate heat exchangersphase lag effectspace domaintime domain

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Diffusion and convection (76R99)

Review text

This paper presents a method for transient simulation of multipass plate heat exchangers with axial dispersion of heat in fluid, and with phase lag effect. The method can be used to simulate the exit temperature for both the fluids for arbitrary inlet temperatures. The method also takes into account the phase-lag inside the distribution part, and analyzes the multipass plate heat exchanger by considering it as an assembly of single-pass plate heat exchangers. Examples of computation are given for responses of 1-2 and 2-2 pass configurations. The 1-2 pass exchanger is solved by analyzing the successive modules of heat exchanger, whereas the 2-2 pass heat exchanger is simulated by iterating the responses of two smaller heat exchangers into which it has been divided. The method involves Laplace transform with temporal variable, solution in space domain, and numerical inversion of Laplace transform back to the time domain. The authors show that the axial dispersion in fluid has a strong effect on the transient response.

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