Investigation of heat exchanger inclination in forced-draught air-cooled heat exchangers

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Kennedy, I.J.
Spence, S.W.T.
Spratt, G.R.

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International Conference on Heat Transfer, Fluid Mechanics and Thermodynamics

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Paper presented at the 9th International Conference on Heat Transfer, Fluid Mechanics and Thermodynamics, Malta, 16-18 July, 2012.
The purpose of this study is to determine the influence of inclining the heat exchanger relative to the fan in a forced- draught air-cooled heat exchanger. Since inclination increases plenum depth, the effect of inclination is also compared with increasing plenum depth without inclination. The experimental study shows that inclination improves thermal performance by only 0.5%, when compared with a baseline non-inclined case with a shallow plenum. Similarly, increasing plenum depth without inclination has a thermal performance benefit of approximately 1%. The numerical study shows that, as the heat exchanger is inclined, the low velocity core at the centre of the heat exchanger moves to one side.

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Inclining the heat exchanger relative to the fan, Plenum depth, Forced- draught air-cooled heat exchangers

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Kennedy, IJ, Spence, SWT & Spratt, GR 2012, Investigation of heat exchanger inclination in forced-draught air-cooled heat exchangers, Paper presented to the 9th International Conference on Heat Transfer, Fluid Mechanics and Thermodynamics, Malta, 16-18 July, 2012.