Iranian Journal of Mechanical Engineering Transactions of ISME

Iranian Journal of Mechanical Engineering Transactions of ISME

Laboratory study and simulation of the effect of geometric changes of the plate heat exchanger in improving its performance.

Authors
Alireza Farshidian far 1
kazem bashirnezhad 2
Peyman Bashishahabi 3
Javad Jahanpor
1 Department of Energy Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Mashad Islamic Azad University
2 ِِDepartment of Energy Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Mashhad Islamic Azad University
3 Department of Energy Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Mashhad Islamic Azad University.
10.30506/ijmep.2021.138881.1738
Abstract
Plate heat exchangers are one of the new ways of exchanging heat energy between two or more fluids at different temperatures.In this paper the hydraulic and thermal performance of a new design of a plate heat exchanger using simulation and laboratory methods is investigated. In the proposed plate heat exchanger design, first the special geometry including the proposed curved Chevron pattern for the heat transfer zone in the plates is introduced.The results of this proposed plate heat exchanger are evaluated by laboratory method with M6B plate heat exchanger. The simulation and laboratory results show that while maintaining the heat efficiency of the converter, the pressure drop is significantly reduced. This significant reduction in pressure drop of the proposed model leads to a reduction in the number of plates and savings in raw material consumption, reducing the capacity and energy consumed by the pump for fluid transfer, production time and installation space.
Keywords
Plate heat exchanger
Chevron pattern
Heat transfer zone
Heat transfer coefficient
Pressure drop

Subjects

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  • Receive Date 29 October 2020
  • Revise Date 16 January 2021
  • Accept Date 17 May 2021