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Plate heat exchangers are widely used for two-phase heat transfer in the industrial applications, and recently more attention has been paid to the plate heat exchangers with enhanced surface due to their better heat transfer performance. In this paper, the local condensation heat transfer coefficients are studied using R134a in a micro-structured plate heat exchanger. In order to obtain a more accurate prediction model, a series of measurements are conducted under various operating conditions. The mass flux of R134a varied from 47 kg/m2s to 77 kg/m2s, the saturation pressure in the condenser ranged from 6.32 bar to 8.95 bar, and the value of the heat flux was between 13 kW/m2 and 22 kW/m2. The local two-phase Nusselt number increases with the increase of the mass flux. As the saturation pressure increases, the local two-phase Nusselt number increase at the beginning of the condensation and decrease at the end of the condensation. However, the effect of heat flux on local heat transfer is irregular, due to the interaction of these parameters in the experiment. Comparing with the unstructured plate heat exchanger, R134a condenses faster at the beginning of the process in the micro-sturctured plate heat exchanger, and the local heat transfer performs better when the vapor quality is lower. Combing with the phenomenon that the overall heat flux in micro-structured plate is larger under the same working conditions, it shows that the overall heat transfer of the micro-structured plate is improved, but the local heat transfer uprades only at lower vapor qualities. A new correlation is developed, it predicts all the experimental data within the root mean square error 10%, and a new correlation for the waterside is suggested as well. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Compact heat exchanger is a kind of advanced heat transfer equipment with small size and high efficiency. It has wide application prospects in industry. However, due to the highly compact structure, it is difficult to measure the wall temperature of heat transfer surface by traditional test methods. For measuring the thermal performance of compact heat transfer surfaces more accurately, a single-blow transient test technique using pulse change inlet condition with optimized pulse width and matching time is developed. By turning on and off the electric air heater, the pulse change in the inlet temperature can be realized and is fitted as the superposition of a positive and a negative exponential function with a time shift. In order to reduce the effect of the uncertainty of temperature measurement, the optimum pulse width and optimum matching time is obtained by numerical calculations. By means of the newly extended test method, the heat transfer performance of a parallel-plate test core is measured and compared with the results from the literature. The analysis shows that the present pulse change technique considering the optimal pulse width and matching time have to be considered for the heat transfer surfaces with NTU > 4.5 to reduce the uncertainty in temperature measurement. The experimental results are in good agreement with those given in the literature. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Geothermal heat pipes are an effective heat source for heat pumps used for space heating. Because the area for the installation of borehole heat exchangers is limited in urban areas (one site per borehole), the maximum heat extractable from one borehole shall rise. In cooperation with the FKW Hannover, the Institute for Thermodynamics of the Leibniz University of Hannover is investigating the thermodynamic behavior of CO driven geothermal heat pipes of higher thermal power. Therefore two different types of geothermal heat pipes with a length of 400 m each have been installed. Furthermore a numerical simulation of the heat and mass transfer within the pipes is under development. The experimental setup and first results of the experiments are presented as well as the current status of the numerical simulation. A comparison of the two different types of heat pipes and a comparison of the experimental data with the numerical simulation is given. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The use of plasmonic nanofluids in photothermal applications, such as solar thermal receivers, is a strong subject in current research. Additionally, other fields show interests in basefluids, of which the optical properties are tuned by adding nanoparticles. Exemplary research activities are plasmonic hyperthermia or nanoparticle-based sunscreen products. However, chosing the appropriate nanoparticle material is of great importance for the efficiency of such systems. The 'classical' approach is to measure the absorption or scattering behavior of known nanofluids, followed by an estimation whether or not this fluid is suitable for the designated application. This paper shows up a different approach: a method is presented to be used as a guided search for a global optimal nanoparticle material for a certain task. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]