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Numerical Study on Flow and Heat Transfer Characteristics of Supercritical CO 2 in Zigzag Microchannels

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  • Yi Tu

    (School of Mechanical Engineering, Hunan University of Arts and Science, Changde 415000, China)

  • Yu Zeng

    (School of Aeronautic Science and Engineering, Beihang University, Beijing 100191, China)

Abstract

The zigzag channel is the uppermost channel type of an industrial printed circuit heat exchanger (PCHE). The effect of geometric properties on the flow and heat transfer performance of the channel is significant to the PCHE design and optimization. Numerical investigations were conducted on the flow and heat transfer characteristics of supercritical CO 2 (sCO 2 ) in semicircular zigzag channels by computational fluid dynamics method. The shear stress transfer (SST) k–ω model was used as turbulence model and the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) real gas model with REFPROP database was used to evaluate the thermophysical parameters of sCO 2 in this numerical method. The effectiveness of the simulation method is verified by experimental data. Thermal hydraulic performance for zigzag channels with different pitch lengths, bending angles, and hydraulic diameters are studied comparatively based on this numerical method, with the boundary conditions which cover the pseudocritical point. The comparison results show that reducing the bending angle and pitch length will strengthen the effect of boundary layer separation on the leeward side of the wall and enhance the heat transfer performance, but the pressure drop of the channel will also increase, and the decrease of channel hydraulic diameter is beneficial to the heat transfer enhancement, but it is not as significant as that of the straight channel.

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  • Yi Tu & Yu Zeng, 2022. "Numerical Study on Flow and Heat Transfer Characteristics of Supercritical CO 2 in Zigzag Microchannels," Energies, MDPI, vol. 15(6), pages 1-16, March.
    • Handle: RePEc:gam:jeners:v:15:y:2022:i:6:p:2099-:d:770285
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    1. George Stamatellos & Tassos Stamatelos, 2022. "Effect of Actual Recuperators’ Effectiveness on the Attainable Efficiency of Supercritical CO 2 Brayton Cycles for Solar Thermal Power Plants," Energies, MDPI, vol. 15(20), pages 1-20, October.

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