Publication detail
Pressure drop study of polymeric hollow fiber heat exchangers
KROULÍKOVÁ, T. ASTROUSKI, I. KŮDELOVÁ, T.
English title
Pressure drop study of polymeric hollow fiber heat exchangers
Type
conference paper
Language
en
Original abstract
Polymeric hollow fiber heat exchangers are an alternative to common metal heat exchangers in lowtemperature applications. Their advantages are low cost, low weight, and corrosion resistance. The heat transfer surface consists of hundreds or even thousands of fibers of small diameter. The PHFHE for gas-liquid application has a regular structure, which prevents the fibers from blocking the heat transfer surface and allow the gas to flow through the heat exchanger. This arrangement, known as the bank of tubes, is common for the multipass shell and tube heat exchangers. There are relations used to estimate the pressure drop of flow passing the bank of tubes. Those are based on extensive experimental research with steel tubes. Unfortunately, it seems that those relations do not apply to flexible fibers. This paper shows the discrepancy between the theory for non-flexible bank of tubes and measured data of PHFHE.
English abstract
Polymeric hollow fiber heat exchangers are an alternative to common metal heat exchangers in lowtemperature applications. Their advantages are low cost, low weight, and corrosion resistance. The heat transfer surface consists of hundreds or even thousands of fibers of small diameter. The PHFHE for gas-liquid application has a regular structure, which prevents the fibers from blocking the heat transfer surface and allow the gas to flow through the heat exchanger. This arrangement, known as the bank of tubes, is common for the multipass shell and tube heat exchangers. There are relations used to estimate the pressure drop of flow passing the bank of tubes. Those are based on extensive experimental research with steel tubes. Unfortunately, it seems that those relations do not apply to flexible fibers. This paper shows the discrepancy between the theory for non-flexible bank of tubes and measured data of PHFHE.
Keywords in English
polymerich hollow fiber; heat exchanger; bank of tubes; pressure drop
Released
23.11.2020
Publisher
Brno University of Technology Institute of Solid Mechanics, Mechatronics and Biomechanics
Location
Brno
ISBN
978-80-214-5896-3
ISSN
1805-8248
Book
Proceedings of the Engineering Mechnics 2020
Pages from–to
314–317
Pages count
4
BIBTEX
@inproceedings{BUT170113,
author="Tereza {Kroulíková} and Ilja {Astrouski} and Tereza {Kůdelová},
title="Pressure drop study of polymeric hollow fiber heat exchangers",
booktitle="Proceedings of the Engineering Mechnics 2020",
year="2020",
month="November",
pages="314--317",
publisher="Brno University of Technology Institute of Solid Mechanics, Mechatronics and Biomechanics",
address="Brno",
isbn="978-80-214-5896-3",
issn="1805-8248"
}