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effectiveness.
I. INTRODUCTION
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(2)
C min
C max
(3)
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(4)
<
<
H in H out q 2
(5)
<
Where q 2 is the heat flux per unit length. H is the fluid
enthalpy.
<
q2
UW ' x ( T2 T1 )
(6)
(7)
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TABLE II
UNITS FOR MAGNETIC PROPERTIES
Operating conditions
Hot side
Mass flow rate [kg/h]
540
Inlet temperature [K]
453
Specific heat, Cp [J/kg K]
4315
Exchanger data
Plate length [m]
1
Plate width [m]
0.15
700
Global heat transfer
coefficient [w/m2K]
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V. NUMERICAL METHODS
We have to integrate a set of 10 coupled first-order ordinary
differential equations which are required to satisfy boundary
conditions at both boundaries of the system (x=0 and x=L).
The shooting method is the numerical method used to solve
this boundary value problem by reducing it to the solution of
an initial value problem . It uses the quality controlled RungeKutta method to integrate the ODEs and invokes the
multidimensional, globally convergent Newton-Raphson to
zero n functions of n variables (n is the number of boundary
conditions at x=L). The functions are obtained by integrating
the 10 differential equations from x=0 to x=L [8].
The first step consists in loading geometric data and
operational parameters for the plate heat exchanger. The
computational procedure requires a data file containing the
necessary information about the plate dimension, the inlet
temperature, the mass flow rate and the specific heats of both
fluids and the global heat transfer coefficient table (1). For the
numerical illustration, water is used as the cold and hot fluid.
TABLE I
DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS AND BOUNDARY CONDITIONS
Channel
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
Equation
dT1
dx
dT2
c2
dx
dT3
c3
dx
dT4
c4
dx
c1
dT5
dx
dT6
c6
dx
dT7
c7
dx
dT8
c8
dx
dT9
c9
dx
dT10
c10
dx
c5
VI.
0.86 and 1.46. These data injected into the simulation program
leads to a heat duty of the HX equal to 45.84 kW.
We verified that calculating the heat duty using the hot liquid
outlet data or the cold liquid outlet data leads to the same
value which is a first illustration of the reliability and the
accuracy of the obtained results.
Fig. 3 shows the temperature evolution of both streams. The
temperature of the hot liquid initially at 180C decreases until
109C while the temperature of the cold one increases from
40C to 101C. Channels are numbered along the flow path.
The hot liquid flow through the odd-numbered channels while
le cold one flow through the even-numbered ones.
Boundary condition
UW (T2 T1 )
T1(x=0)=Th,in
UW (T1 T3 2T2 )
T2(x=0)=Tc,in
T3(x=L) = T1(x=L)
T4(x=L) = T2(x=L)
UW (T4 T6 2T5 )
T5(x=0) = T3(x=0)
UW (T5 T7 2T6 )
T6(x=0) = T4(x=0)
T7(x=L) = T5(x=L)
T8(x=L) = T6(x=L)
T9(x=0) = T7(x=0)
UW (T9 T10 )
Cold side
650
313
4180
Fig. 3 Temperature profile of the two operating fluid along the PHE
channels.
T10(x=0) = T8(x=0)
The temperature length curves for the hot and the cold
liquid are shown in Fig. 4. This figure illustrates the heat
transfer driving force, the temperatures gradient between the
hot and the cold liquid, decreases appreciably between the two
extremities of the plate heat exchanger. The decrease of
temperatures gradient induces, as inspection of Fig. 5 shows, a
decrease in the thermal fluxes transferred through each active
plate. The heat transfer flux has its maximum value through
the first plate and attains its minimum value at the last plate.
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CONCLUSION
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