Review of Efficient Design of Heat Exchanger by Additive Manufacturing

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Prashant Paraye ◽  
R. M. Sarviya
Keyword(s):  
Additive Manufacturing ◽  
Heat Exchanger ◽  
Efficient Design

scholarly journals A New Graphical Technique for Energy Efficient Design of Heat Recovery System in Chemical/Refining Industries

2016 ◽  
Vol 4 (4) ◽  
pp. 33
Author(s):  
Dina Ahmed Kamel ◽  
Mamdouh Ayad Gadalla ◽  
Fatma Hanafy Ashour
Keyword(s):  
Heat Exchanger ◽  
Driving Forces ◽  
Process Integration ◽  
Minimum Energy ◽  
Pinch Analysis ◽  
Efficient Design ◽  
Heating And Cooling ◽  
Heat Exchanger Networks ◽  
Graphical Technique ◽  
Key Steps

Chemical processes are energy intensive industries; the majority of energy consumed in industrial processes is mainly used for heating and cooling requirements. This results in increasing the interest in obtaining the optimum design of the heat exchanger networks to reduce the energy consumption and face the growing energy crises. Most of the published literature over the last fifty years promotes the process integration technology as a main part of the process system engineering science. Graphical Pinch Analysis method normally includes two key steps, firstly obtaining the energy targets which include the minimum energy required for the HEN design, then designing the heat exchanger network (HEN). This paper introduces a new graphical approach for the design of new heat exchanger networks (HENs) based on pinch analysis rules. The HEN is represented on a simple graph, where the cold stream temperatures are plotted on the X-axis while the driving forces for each exchanger are plotted on the Y-axis. This graphical technique can describe the energy analysis problems in term of temperature driving force inside the heat exchanger, which is an important factor in the design process as the differences in these driving forces are involved in calculating the area of heat exchangers, and consequently affecting the cost.

scholarly journals Design, additive manufacturing, and performance of heat exchanger with a novel flow-path architecture

2020 ◽  
Vol 180 ◽  
pp. 115775 ◽  
Author(s):  
Adrian S. Sabau ◽  
Adrian Bejan ◽  
David Brownell ◽  
Kyle Gluesenkamp ◽  
Bart Murphy ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Additive Manufacturing ◽  
Heat Exchanger ◽  
Flow Path ◽  
And Performance

Parametric Study of Vortex Generator Effects in an Additive Manufactured Minichannel Heat Exchanger

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hamidreza Rastan ◽  
Tim Ameel ◽  
Björn Palm
Keyword(s):  
Heat Transfer ◽  
Thermal Properties ◽  
Additive Manufacturing ◽  
Heat Exchanger ◽  
Angle Of Attack ◽  
Three Dimensional ◽  
High Energy ◽  
Vortex Generators ◽  
Design Parameters ◽  
Minichannel Heat Exchanger

Abstract Heat exchangers with mini- and micro-channel components are capable of high energy exchange due to their incumbent large surface area to volume ratio. Concurrently, recent advances in additive manufacturing simplify the creation of metallic minichannels that incorporate turbulators for heat transfer enhancement. As part of the development of a minichannel heat exchanger with turbulators, this study analyzes the three-dimensional conjugate heat transfer and laminar flow in a minichannel heat exchanger equipped with rectangular winglet vortex generators (VGs) through numerical simulation. The minichannels have a hydraulic diameter of 2.86 mm and are assumed to be made from aluminum alloy AlSi10Mg. This material is one of the popular alloys in the additive manufacturing industry (three-dimensional (3D) printing) because of its light weight and beneficial mechanical and thermal properties. The working fluid is distilled water with temperature-dependent thermal properties. The minichannel is heated by a constant heat flux of 5 W cm−2 and the Reynolds number is varied from 230 to 950. The simulations are performed using the COMSOL® platform, which solves the governing mass, momentum, and energy equations based on the finite element method. The effect of the VG design parameters, which include VG angle of attack, height, length, thickness, longitudinal pitch, and distance from the sidewalls, is investigated. It is found that the generation of three-dimensional vortices caused by the presence of the vortex generators can notably boost the convective heat transfer, at the cost of increased pressure drop, potentially reducing the heat exchanger size for a given heat duty. A sensitivity analysis indicates that the angle of attack, VG height, VG length, and longitudinal pitch have the most significant effects on the heat transfer and flow friction characteristics. In contrast, the VG thickness and distance from the sidewalls only had minor influences on the heat exchanger performance over the studied range of design parameters.

scholarly journals A Framework for Flexible and Cost-Efficient Retrofit Measures of Heat Exchanger Networks

Energies ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 13 (6) ◽  
pp. 1472 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christian Langner ◽  
Elin Svensson ◽  
Simon Harvey
Keyword(s):  
Heat Exchanger ◽  
Heat Recovery ◽  
Main Idea ◽  
Efficient Design ◽  
Industrial Plants ◽  
Feasibility Assessment ◽  
Point Analysis ◽  
Heat Exchanger Networks ◽  
Cost Efficient ◽  
Design Proposal

Retrofitting of industrial heat recovery systems can contribute significantly to meeting energy efficiency targets for industrial plants. One issue to consider when screening retrofit design proposals is that industrial heat recovery systems must be able to handle variations, e.g., in inlet temperatures or heat capacity flow rates, in such a way that operational targets are reached. Consequently, there is a need for systematic retrofitting methodologies that are applicable to multi-period heat exchanger networks (HENs). In this study, a framework was developed to achieve flexible and cost-efficient retrofit measures of (industrial) HENs. The main idea is to split the retrofitting processes into several sub-steps. This splitting allows well-proven (single period) retrofit methodologies to be used to generate different design proposals, which are collected in a superstructure. By means of structural feasibility assessment, structurally infeasible design proposals can be discarded from further analysis, yielding a reduced superstructure. Additionally, critical point analysis is applied to identify those operating points within the uncertainty span that determine necessary overdesign of heat exchangers. In the final step, the most cost-efficient design proposal within the reduced superstructure is identified. The proposed framework was applied to a HEN retrofit case study to illustrate the proposed framework.

A Multi-Scale Topology Optimization Approach for Optimal Macro-Layout and Local Grading of TPMS-Based Lattices

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Niclas Strömberg
Keyword(s):  
Topology Optimization ◽  
Additive Manufacturing ◽  
Local Density ◽  
Bulk Material ◽  
Transversely Isotropic ◽  
Benchmark Problems ◽  
Optimization Approach ◽  
Lattice Structures ◽  
Efficient Design ◽  
Multi Scale

Abstract The use of lattice structures in design for additive manufacturing has quickly emerged as a popular and efficient design alternative for creating innovative multifunctional lightweight solutions. In particular, the family of triply periodic minimal surfaces (TPMS) studied in detail by Schoen for generating frame-or shell-based lattice structures seems extra promising. In this paper a multi-scale topology optimization approach for optimal macro-layout and local grading of TPMS-based lattice structures is presented. The approach is formulated using two different density fields, one for identifying the macro-layout and another one for setting the local grading of the TPMS-based lattice. The macro density variable is governed by the standard SIMP formulation, but the local one defines the orthotropic elasticity of the element following material interpolation laws derived by numerical homogenization. Such laws are derived for frame- and shell-based Gyroid, G-prime and Schwarz-D lattices using transversely isotropic elasticity for the bulk material. A nice feature of the approach is that the lower and upper additive manufacturing limits on the local density of the TMPS-based lattices are included properly. The performance of the approach is excellent, and this is demonstrated by solving several three-dimensional benchmark problems, e.g., the optimal macro-layout and local grading of Schwarz-D lattice for the established GE-bracket is identified using the presented approach.

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