Optimization of safety structure of plate-fin heat exchanger

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Abstract

A safety structure of plate-fin heat exchanger is designed for some special applications to avoid fluid leakage from one fluid side to the other fluid side. A cavity is designed between two channels and a part of cavity volume is filled with good-thermal-conductivity material which is divided into a number of columns. For higher thermal efficiency of the columns, division of grids and distribution of these columns is optimized. The exhaustive method is used in optimization of division of girds, and a optimization method is designed to distribution of columns. The performance of heat exchanger is obviously improved compared with full-filled case. Analysis of quantity of the columns in the same total volume shows that larger quantity would be more effective to lift thermal efficiency. The optimization results obtained in this paper can provide a new feasible structure of secure plate-fin heat exchanger, and also provide some guidelines for the optimal designs of heat exchangers.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationEnvironment, Energy and Sustainable Development - Proceedings of the 2013 International Conference on Frontier of Energy and Environment Engineering, ICFEEE 2013
Pages209-214
Number of pages6
StatePublished - 2014
Event2013 2nd International Conference on Frontiers of Energy and Environment Engineering, ICFEEE 2013 - Hong Kong, China
Duration: 28 Nov 201329 Nov 2013

Publication series

NameEnvironment, Energy and Sustainable Development - Proceedings of the 2013 International Conference on Frontier of Energy and Environment Engineering, ICFEEE 2013
Volume1

Conference

Conference2013 2nd International Conference on Frontiers of Energy and Environment Engineering, ICFEEE 2013
Country/TerritoryChina
CityHong Kong
Period28/11/1329/11/13

Keywords

  • Distribution optimization
  • Fluid leakage
  • Plate-fin heat exchanger
  • Safety structure
  • Thermal efficiency

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