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Improvement of a chemical heat pump by computer‐aided design
Author(s) -
Forges P.,
Forestier A.,
Amouroux M.
Publication year - 1999
Publication title -
international journal of energy research
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.808
H-Index - 95
eISSN - 1099-114X
pISSN - 0363-907X
DOI - 10.1002/(sici)1099-114x(19991010)23:12<1051::aid-er441>3.0.co;2-y
Subject(s) - thermal conduction , heat pump , chemical reactor , process engineering , thermal , working fluid , mechanical engineering , chemical industry , heat exchanger , mechanics , computer science , engineering , nuclear engineering , thermodynamics , chemical engineering , environmental engineering , physics
This paper deals with an optimization problem about thermal exchanges between a reactive porous environment and two networks of heat pipes together enclosed in a chemical heat pump reactor. Because all physico‐chemical features of the reactive matter are fixed (actually the reactor contains a patented chemical mixture), the only way to optimise the quality of these exchanges, is to find an optimal location within the reactor for the heat pipes using ozone friendly fluid as the working fluid. Two numerical approaches, the first quantitative by the finite element method and the second based on the heat conduction hyperbolic theory, enabled us to obtain the same optimization results. Copyright © 1999 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.