Optimal heating and cooling strategies for heat exchanger design.

Author(s) : ANDRESEN B., GORDON J. M.

Type of article: Article

Summary

The optimal heating or cooling strategy that minimizes entropy production is derived for a simple class of common heat transfer processes that are constrained to proceed in a fixed, finite time. The empirical wisdom embodied in conventional single-pass counterflow heat exchanger design is examined in light of this solution. For judiciously selected system parameters, the counterflow heat exchanger can yield the optimal solution.

Details

  • Original title: Optimal heating and cooling strategies for heat exchanger design.
  • Record ID : 1994-2212
  • Languages: English
  • Source: J. appl. Phys. - vol. 71 - n. 1
  • Publication date: 1992

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