Affiliation:
1. Faculty of Engineering, University of Iceland, Reykjavik, Iceland
Abstract
This paper describes the performance of plate heat exchangers in residential water radiator heating systems receiving their heat from geothermal resources. Radiator theory is reviewed and determination of annual hot water requirements for space heating is discussed. Performance evaluation is made of plate heat exchangers and results obtained by means of two equations commonly used for this purpose, the Sieder–Tate and the Dittus–Boelter equations, compared to results obtained with a simplified equation where heat transfer in the heat exchanger is assumed to depend only on the fluid mass flow on both sides. It is found that for prevailing temperature ranges in Icelandic geothermal systems the mass flow approximation gives results very close to those determined by the more complicated conventional equations.
Subject
Mechanical Engineering,Energy Engineering and Power Technology
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