Journal
JOURNAL OF THERMAL ANALYSIS AND CALORIMETRY
Volume 135, Issue 3, Pages 1813-1822Publisher
SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1007/s10973-018-7348-y
Keywords
Metal foams; Heat exchangers; Condensers; Tube bank; Tube bundle; Cooling towers; Cross-flow; Geothermal
Funding
- QGECE
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Two sets of aluminum foam cylinders, 5 and 15mm thick, are being tested in two-row and three-row bundles for their thermo-hydraulic performance. The bundles are formed using fixed transversal and longitudinal pitch distances and subject to airflow between 0.5 and 5.0 at 0.5m s(-1) interval under cross-flow. The effects of foam layer thickness and the number of row under staggered configuration are investigated. Thermo-hydraulic results are benchmarking against those of a conventional finned tube bundle of similar dimensions with pre-determined number of fins and assembled using the same pitch distances.
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