Heat Transfer Characteristics of a Polymer-Based Roll-to-Roll Microchannel Heat Exchanger
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Abstract
Polymer-based heat exchangers are advantageous for corrosion resistance, light weight, and low costs. Microchannel heat exchangers are promising for material saving and high heat transfer capacity. Curved channels can promote the secondary fluid flow to enhance the effectiveness of heat transfer. Roll to roll technology makes it possible to roll thin-film layers up to form curved channels inside the layers. Combining all the strengths mentioned above, this research comes up with a polymer-based roll-to-roll microchannel heat exchanger with three different designs. Through numerical simulations, this study analyses the heat transfer characteristics of those three heat exchanger designs. Dean numbers and Nusselt numbers are calculated to evaluate the formation of Dean Vortices and the effectiveness of heat transfer. Simulation results demonstrate that the formation of Dean Vortices induced through the roll-to-roll microchannel structure helps to improve the heat transfer compared with equivalent straight-channel heat exchangers. In addition, this study calculates not only the Nusselt numbers but also the Thermal Performance Factors to take into account the high pressure drops in the microchannel. Finally, the efficiencies of heat transfer of the three heat exchanger designs are compared with each other.
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| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
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