Review on the characteristics of flow and heat transfer in printed circuit heat exchangers

Changye Huang; Weihua Cai; Yue Wang; Yao Liu; Qian Li; Biao Li

doi:10.1016/j.applthermaleng.2019.02.131

Review on the characteristics of flow and heat transfer in printed circuit heat exchangers

Changye Huang
, Weihua Cai^*
, Yue Wang
, Yao Liu
, Qian Li
, Biao Li

^*Corresponding author for this work

School of Energy Science and Engineering, Harbin Institute of Technology

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Abstract

Printed circuit heat exchanger (PCHE) is a compact heat exchanger with a series of advantages, such as, high ability of heat transfer, bearing high pressure and low temperature, etc., and it presents potential application in the field of new generation of nuclear power, solar thermal power generation, and hydrogen energy in recent years. In such a development situation, this review categorizes and summarizes the recent development related to the characteristics of flow and heat transfer in PCHEs based on results from experiments and numerical simulations. It is shown that present studies are limited to single-phase flow with supercritical carbon dioxide or helium as the working fluid. So, some problems still exist to be investigated, such as, the actual evolution of flow and temperature field, multi-phase flow, high Reynolds-number flow, etc. Finally, it points out some research topics for PCHEs in the future.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	190-205
Number of pages	16
Journal	Applied Thermal Engineering
Volume	153
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.applthermaleng.2019.02.131
State	Published - 5 May 2019
Externally published	Yes

Keywords

Heat transfer
Pressure drop
Printed circuit heat exchanger
Single-phase flow

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