Thermal Analysis of the Contra-Flow Regenerative Heat Exchanger
Thermal Analysis of the Contra-Flow Regenerative Heat Exchanger
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DOI:
10.1243/pime_proc_1948_159_029_02
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1948-06
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C. Iliffe
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C. Iliffe
The regenerative heat exchanger was first proposed and constructed by Dr. Robert Stirling in 1816, in connexion with a regenerative hot-air engine. Since then its use has been mainly confined to furnace air preheaters. With the advent of the gas turbine, however, the need has arisen for a compact heat exchanger of high thermal ratio and low pressure loss. This, of “necessity, tends to the use of gas passages of small hydraulic diameter. In the recuperator, a limit to the size of the gas passages is imposed by the difficulties of producing and supporting in position long thin passages which must perform the dual function of transferring heat from one gas to another and of keeping separate the two gases at different pressures. Small gas passages in a recuperator also tend to become blocked with the deposits from the hot gases of a gas-turbine unit.The renewed interest recently taken in the regenerative heat exchanger is due to the promise which it shows of meeting these objections. The requirement that the ...