Performance of a serpentine heat exchanger: Part II - Second-law efficiency

Applied Thermal Engineering

Volumn 29, Issue 14-15, 2009, Pages 3088-3093

  San, Jung Yang ^a   Pai, Kai Li ^a  

^a NATIONAL CHUNG HSING UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Exergy; Second law efficiency; Serpentine heat exchanger; Waste heat recovery

Indexed keywords

CROSS FLOWS; HEAT CAPACITIES; IDEAL GAS; INLET TEMPERATURE; NUMBER OF TRANSFER UNITS; RECTANGULAR TUBES; SECOND LAW ANALYSIS; SECOND-LAW; SECOND-LAW EFFICIENCY; TUBE FLOW; WASTE HEAT RECOVERY;

CHANNEL FLOW; DROPS; EXERGY; HEAT EXCHANGERS; INCOMPRESSIBLE FLOW; PIPE FLOW; SERPENTINE; SILICATE MINERALS; TUBES (COMPONENTS); WALL FLOW; WASTE HEAT;

WASTE HEAT UTILIZATION;

EID: 67651092179     PISSN: 13594311     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.applthermaleng.2009.04.004     Document Type: Article

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