Determination of the sensible heat effectiveness and pressure loss of a rotary regenerative heat exchanger using CFD

Result code in IS VaVaI

<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F68407700%3A21220%2F23%3A00363569" target="_blank" >RIV/68407700:21220/23:00363569 - isvavai.cz</a>

Result on the web

<a href="https://doi.org/10.1007/s12273-022-0983-z" target="_blank" >https://doi.org/10.1007/s12273-022-0983-z</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s12273-022-0983-z" target="_blank" >10.1007/s12273-022-0983-z</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Determination of the sensible heat effectiveness and pressure loss of a rotary regenerative heat exchanger using CFD

Original language description

The paper presents a new method to determine the sensible effectiveness and pressure loss of rotary regenerative heat exchangers using Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD). It is based on CFD simulations of a single thermal wheel microchannel with a small cross-sectional area and thin walls, with cyclic inlet and outlet boundary conditions. Two unique measurement set-ups were designed and built for the experimental measurement of the heat exchanger characteristics. Five different types of thermal wheels were manufactured, measured, and simulated in ANSYS Fluent. All wheels achieve an effectiveness greater than 73 % under certain (air flow) conditions, which is the minimum effectiveness required by Ecodesign (in the EU). For the examined exchangers, the effectiveness ranges from 66.5 to 83.3 %, depending on the boundary conditions and geometric parameters of the rotors. The highest sensible effectiveness is achieved by heat exchangers with the largest heat exchange surface Ac, on the other hand, these wheels have the largest pressure loss. The paper discusses the use of a simplified ε-NTU correlation model for the HVAC systems (typically C* = 1). The correlation model and CFD results were compared and found to be different from each other. The results of the CFD simulation were compared with measurements to prove that the proposed simulation method can predict the behaviour of the real heat exchanger as a whole. It was demonstrated that the sensible effectiveness and pressure loss of the rotary heat exchanger predicted by the CFD simulations correspond well to the measured values within the measurement uncertainty ±1.3 %. The proposed method can be used for the comparison of different rotary regenerative heat exchangers before their manufacturing and for verification that they meet the EU Ecodesign requirements set by the current legislation. It reduces the cost of the initial optimisation and testing of new designs.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

20101 - Civil engineering

Project

<a href="/en/project/TK02020006" target="_blank" >TK02020006: Increasing the Effectiveness of Rotary Regenerative Heat Exchangers</a><br>

Continuities

P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)

Publication year

2023

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Building Simulation

ISSN

1996-3599

e-ISSN

1996-8744

Volume of the periodical

16

Issue of the periodical within the volume

6

Country of publishing house

CN - CHINA

Number of pages

9

Pages from-to

869-877

UT code for WoS article

000934838800001

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85148348384