Industry 4.0
Vol. 9 (2024), Issue 5, pg(s) 178-181

DOMINANT TECHNOLOGIES IN “INDUSTRY 4.0”

Sustainable Heat Exchanger Design for Natural Gas Savings in Industrial Dryers

  • 1 KANSAN R&D Center, Izmir, Turkey

Abstract

There are many different models and types of heat exchangers depending on the area of use. The type of fluids involved in heat transfer and their temperature play a critical role in selecting the appropriate model. Common heat exchangers include plate exchangers, tube-type exchangers, air-cooled exchangers, and graphite exchangers. In this study, a sustainable and original heat exchanger system was designed to increase energy efficiency and reduce natural gas consumption by utilizing the waste heat from natural gas. The design prioritizes ease of maintenance and cleaning. Detailed engineering analyses were conducted, and critical engineering errors identified in previous heat exchanger designs were resolved. The developed designs were validated through test studies and experiments, leading to the final design after an optimization process.
As a result of the study, a high-capacity, energy-efficient, and sustainable heat exchanger integrated with modern technology was developed.

Keywords

References

  1. Mehendale, S. S., A. M. Jacobi, and R. K. Shah. "Fluid flow and heat transfer at micro-and meso-scales with application to heat exchanger design." (2000): 175-193.
  2. Klemeš, Jiří Jaromír, et al. "Heat transfer enhancement, intensification and optimisation in heat exchanger network retrofit and operation." Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews 120 (2020): 109644.
  3. Lee, HoSung. Thermal design: heat sinks, thermoelectrics, heat pipes, compact heat exchangers, and solar cells. John Wiley & Sons, 2022.
  4. Hesselgreaves, John E., Richard Law, and David Reay. Compact heat exchangers: selection, design and operation. Butterworth-Heinemann, 2016.
  5. Hoseinzadeh, Siamak, and P. Stephan Heyns. "Thermo-structural fatigue and lifetime analysis of a heat exchanger as a feedwater heater in power plant." Engineering Failure Analysis 113 (2020): 104548.
  6. Fundamentals of Heat Exchanger Design, Ramesh K. Shah, Dušan P. Sekulić, ISBN:9780471321712, DOI:10.1002/9780470172605
  7. Starace, G., Carluccio, M., & Fiorentino, F. (2020). Development of a Hybrid Method for Compact Cross-Flow Heat Exchangers. Journal of Heat Transfer, 142(4), 1-9. https://doi.org/10.1115/1.4048693
  8. Cavallini, Alberto, et al. "Condensation in horizontal smooth tubes: a new heat transfer model for heat exchanger design." Heat transfer engineering 27.8 (2006): 31-38.
  9. Kakaç, Sadik, Hongtan Liu, and Anchasa Pramuanjaroenkij. Heat exchangers: selection, rating, and thermal design. CRC press, 2002.
  10. Carluccio, M., & Starace, G. (2019). Prediction Functions for Heat Transfer in Plate-Finned Heat Exchangers. Applied Thermal Engineering, 154, 312-324. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.applthermaleng.2019.03.026
  11. NPTEL – Chemical Engineering (2018). Process Design of Heat Exchanger: Types of Heat Exchanger, Process Design of Shell and Tube Heat Exchanger, Condenser, and Reboilers. Joint initiative of IITs and IISc. Retrieved from https://archive.nptel.ac.in
  12. Heat transfer analysis in counter flow shell and tube heat exchanger using of design of experiments, P. Sakthivel, S. Dinesh, S. Rajkumar, T. Nega, R. Kamalakannan, T. Sathish , Thermal Science 2022 Volume 26, Issue 2 Part A, Pages: 843-848 https://doi.org/10.2298/TSCI200531077P
  13. Bergman, A.A., & Incropera, F.P. (2011). Fundamentals of Heat and Mass Transfer. John Wiley & Sons.
  14. Rohsenow, W.M., Hartnett, J.P., & Cho, Y.I. (1998). Handbook of Heat Transfer (3rd ed.). McGraw-Hill.

Article full text

Download PDF