Projects
Projects: Projects for Investigator |
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| Reference Number | FT1525 | |
| Title | AFM 237 Computational design of tubular heat exchanges | |
| Status | Completed | |
| Energy Categories | Energy Efficiency(Industry) 100%; | |
| Research Types | Applied Research and Development 100% | |
| Science and Technology Fields | ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY (Mechanical, Aeronautical and Manufacturing Engineering) 100% | |
| UKERC Cross Cutting Characterisation | Not Cross-cutting 100% | |
| Principal Investigator |
Mr G Tucker No email address given Campden and Chorleywood Food Research Association |
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| Award Type | Standard | |
| Funding Source | DEFRA | |
| Start Date | 01 January 2005 | |
| End Date | 31 December 2005 | |
| Duration | 12 months | |
| Total Grant Value | £58,000 | |
| Industrial Sectors | No relevance to Underpinning Sectors | |
| Region | London | |
| Programme | DEFRA Resource Efficient and Resilient Food Chain | |
| Investigators | Principal Investigator | Mr G Tucker , Campden and Chorleywood Food Research Association (99.993%) |
| Other Investigator | Project Contact , ANSYS Europe Limited (0.001%) Project Contact , Consumer Healthcare, GlaxoSmithKline (0.001%) Project Contact , Centura Foods Ltd (0.001%) Project Contact , H J Heinz Company Ltd (0.001%) Project Contact , Tetra Pak Processing UK (0.001%) Project Contact , Campbell Group Products Ltd (0.001%) Project Contact , University of Plymouth (0.001%) |
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| Objectives | To apply CFD techniques to assist in selecting the most commercially viable design improvements to multi-tube tubular heat exchangers. This is intended to speed up the transition between the design concepts that are discussed as ideas and the much smaller number of prototypes that need to be built to test the ideas. | |
| Abstract | The work proposed herein is intended to build on the findings from the AFM 126 LINK project on innovations in heat recovery systems for tubular heat exchangers. AFM 126 has applied CFD to the prediction of heat transfer and fluid flow within the complex geometries that comprise multi-tube heat exchangers when operating in heat recovery mode only. One of the critical components of this project was validation of the CFD predictions for shell-side flows using experimentally measured pressures, wall shear rates, temperatures and flow visualization. This stage has been completed successfully and the CFD simulations have since been applied to geometries of ever increasing complexity, including some of novel design. Turbulent shell-side, and laminar or turbulent tube-side, flow and heat transfer will be considered. Commercial considerations dictate that any modifications to heat exchanger equipment should ideally result in enhanced performance in both conventional and regenerative modes of operation. | |
| Publications | (none) |
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| Final Report | Tucker. G. (2005). Heat exchanger design hots up. Final report for DEFRA. (PDF 632 KB) |
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| Added to Database | 17/11/11 | |
