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One piece ceramic heat exchanger for concentrating solar power electric plants

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  • Singh, Dileep
  • Yu, Wenhua
  • France, David M.
  • Allred, Taylor P.
  • Liu, I-Han
  • Du, Wenchao
  • Barua, Bipul
  • Messner, Mark C.

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Using additive manufacturing techniques, a ceramic heat exchanger was optimized for a concentrating solar power (CSP) electric power plant with a corrosive molten salt at atmospheric pressure as the solar field heat transfer fluid and supercritical carbon dioxide at 200 bar as the power block fluid. Temperatures ranged from 750 °C to 540 °C. The plant heat exchanger was optimized for heat transfer and stress using 1 m3 modules arranged in parallel. Heat transfer was optimized using COMSOL Multiphysics software resulting in a unique semi-elliptical cross section for the fluid flow channels in a counter-flow configuration. Counter-flow was made possible through additive manufacturing of the fluid headers as part of each modular heat exchanger thus producing the entire module as a single piece and minimizing cost. Using reasonable parametric values, a heat exchanger module was optimized to 0.5 MW/m3, and a section of it was manufactured including the fluid headers. Parametric studies showed the potential for a module to reach 3.5 MW/m3.

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  • Singh, Dileep & Yu, Wenhua & France, David M. & Allred, Taylor P. & Liu, I-Han & Du, Wenchao & Barua, Bipul & Messner, Mark C., 2020. "One piece ceramic heat exchanger for concentrating solar power electric plants," Renewable Energy, Elsevier, vol. 160(C), pages 1308-1315.
    • Handle: RePEc:eee:renene:v:160:y:2020:i:c:p:1308-1315
    DOI: 10.1016/j.renene.2020.07.070
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