Heat Transfer Characteristics of Rotating Ceramic Regenerators: Numerical Solution Using a Hybrid Finite Difference/Laplace Transform Scheme

Abstract

A hybrid numerical method, combining finite differences with respect to space and a Laplace transform with respect to time, is proposed to determine the heat transfer in a rotary heat exchanger used as a rotating ceramic regenerator for automotive gas turbines. The temperature distributions of the core and of the working fluids are solved for given boundary and initial conditions of a rotary regenerator using this method. An advantage of the present method is that it can be applied when the core and the working fluids have dissimilar temperature distributions. The temperature change in the ceramic honeycomb core was determined from start up to periodic steady state operation. The heat exchanger effectiveness was obtained for an extruded ceramic core used in automotive gas turbine applications.

A methodology for the performance evaluation of an experimental desiccant cooling system

“…The available literature on the manner is composed of the experimental and theoretical studies concentrating on either the overall analysis of operation or the processes and designs of separate components of DCS [5][6][7][8]. Thermodynamic analysis through analytical and numerical approaches [9][10][11][12][13] is the common feature of the theoretical studies. Furthermore there exists a great number of studies directing towards the utilization of different kinds of low-grade input energy as solar energy [14][15][16][17][18], natural gas [19], and also utilized desiccants [20][21][22].…”