Experimental and Analytical Research of the Heat Transfer Process in the Package of Perforated Plates

The need for compact heat exchangers has led to the development of many types of surfaces that enhance the rate of heat transfer, among them the perforated plate heat exchangers, also known as matrix heat exchangers. The perforated plate heat exchangers consist of a series of perforated plates that are separated by a series of spacers. The present study investigates the heat transfer characteristics of the package of perforated plates. Perforated plates were 2 mm thick, with holes with 2 mm in diameter and porosity of 25.6%. The package of one, two, and three perforated plates was set in the channel of the experimental chamber at which entrance was a thrust fan with the ability to control the flow rate. The fluid flow rates, the temperatures of the fluids at the inlet and outlet of the chamber and the temperature of the air between the plates, were measured at the pre-defined locations in the package and the experimental chamber. Based on the measurements, heat transfer coefficients for the individual plates, as well as for the packages of perforated plates were determined. In further research, an iterative analytical procedure for investigation of the heat transfer process and the overall heat transfer coefficient for the package of perforated plates were developed. Based on these analytical and experimental results, conclusions were drawn about the heat transfer in a package of perforated plates.17th Symposium of the Society-of-Thermal-Engineers-of-Serbia (SIMTERM), Oct 20-23, 2015, Sokobanja, Serbi

Perforated plate convective heat transfer analysis

The need for high performance heat exchangers has led to the development of many types of surfaces that enhance the rate of heat transfer. One of the heat exchanger types are the matrix heat exchangers. Matrix heat exchangers consist of a series of perforated plates, separated by a series of spacers. The present study experimentally investigates the overall heat transfer characteristics of flow through a perforated plate with 2 mm in diameter, the hole length to diameter ratio of 1 and 25.6% porosity. Numerical simulations were performed to determine the overall heat transfer in the function of geometric parameters. Reynolds numbers based on the perforated plate pitch were set in the range from 50 to 500. The results of the average Nusselt number prediction were compared with the related experimental correlations. The experimental data agreed on qualitatively with the results obtained using a CFD. Using these data, a Nusselt criterial equation was obtained