[en] Radiation recuperator is a class of indirect contact heat exchanger widely used for waste heat recovery in high temperature industrial applications. At higher temperatures heat loss is higher and as the cost of energy continues to rise, it becomes imperative to save energy and improve overall energy efficiency. In this light, a radiation recuperator becomes a key component in an energy recovery system with great potential for energy saving. Improving recuperator performance, durability, and its design and material considerations has been an ongoing concern. Recent progress in furnace design and micro turbine applications together with use of recuperators has resulted in reduced fuel consumption, increased cost effectiveness and short pay-back time periods. Due to its high commercial value and confidential nature of the industry, little information is available in the open literature as compared to convection recuperators where results are well documented. This review paper intends to bridge the gap in literature and provides valuable information on experimental and theoretical investigations in radiation recuperator development along with identification of some unresolved issues.

[en] The economic reasoning of engineers has to include the external costs resulting from the effects of engineering processes. Ways of dealing with these costs have to be found within the framework of the development of market economy systems. In their contribution, the authors present approaches for the specific subject of energy use and provide theories about the engineers' way of thinking and working, in line with the current knowledge about the problems related to the effects of engineering processes. (orig.)

[en] The main objective of the project was to develop a methodology to assess energy savings in the industry. The project has been carried out in collaboration between Risoe National Laboratory and Danish Energy Analysis. The developed methodology, can be used to assess the effects of the introduction of a new energy saving technology in the industry with regard to energy, environment, work environment and economy. The methodology has been developed as a difference model. In this method the differences in energy consumption etc., are estimated for the reference technology and the energy saving technology. The methodology which has been developed during the project has been tested by a firm, who had to decide between two available technological solutions. (EG) 96 tabs., 9 ills., 52 refs

[en] As a part of the project 'development of hydrogen production technologies by high temperature electrolysis using very high temperature reactor', we have developed an electrolyzer model for high temperature steam electrolysis (HTSE) system and carried out some preliminary estimations on the effects of heat recovery on the HTSE hydrogen production system. To produce massive hydrogen by using nuclear energy, the HTSE process is one of the promising technologies with sulfur-iodine and hybrid sulfur process. The HTSE produces hydrogen through electrochemical reaction within the solid oxide electrolysis cell (SOEC), which is a reverse reaction of solid oxide fuel cell (SOFC). The HTSE system generally operates in the temperature range of 700∼900 .deg. C. Advantages of HTSE hydrogen production are (a) clean hydrogen production from water without carbon oxide emission, (b) synergy effect due to using the current SOFC technology and (c) higher thermal efficiency of system when it is coupled nuclear reactor. Since the HTSE system operates over 700 .deg. C, the use of heat recovery is an important consideration for higher efficiency. In this paper, four different heat recovery configurations for the HTSE system have been investigated and estimated

[en] Highlights: • Triplex loop heat pump system for ventilation heat recover is proposed. • Mass flow rate in heat pump system can be improved by triplex loop system. • COP of triplex loop is increase with the decrease of outdoor temperature. • The performance of triplex system is higher than traditional system in most cases. - Abstract: Ventilation heat recovery is an important means of effectively reducing the energy consumption of buildings. To improve the performance of a heat pump heat recovery system under large temperature difference conditions in winter, a triplex loop heat pump system, which contains three independent heat pump cycles, is proposed in place of its single loop counterpart. Operating characteristics and system performance were analyzed while indoor temperature was constant at 20 °C and as outdoor temperature dropped from 15 °C to −20 °C. Results showed that with the decrease of the outdoor temperature, the mass flow rate and temperature effectiveness of the triplex loop heat recovery system decreased whereas the heating capacity and the coefficient of performance (COP) increased. Under the experimental conditions, the COP of the triplex loop system had an advantage over the traditional heat pump system when the outdoor temperature was below 2.5 °C. When the outdoor temperature was −20 °C, the COP of the triplex system could reach 9.33, which was 23.1% higher than that of the traditional system.

[en] The potential for greenhouse gas (GHG) reduction in industry through process integration measures depends to a great extent on prevailing technical and economic conditions. A step-wise methodology developed at the author's department based on pinch technology was used to analyse how various parameters influence the cost-optimal configuration for the plant's energy system, and the opportunities for cost-effective GHG emissions reduction compared to this solution. The potential for reduction of GHG emissions from a given plant depends primarily on the design of the industrial process and its energy system (internal factors) and on the electricity-to-fuel price ratio and the specific GHG emissions from the national power generation system (external factors)

[en] In this study, mean streamline and Computational fluid dynamics (CFD) analyses were performed to investigate the performance of a small centrifugal steam compressor using a latent heat recovery technology. The results from both analysis methods showed good agreement. The compression ratio and efficiency of steam were found to be related with those of air by comparing the compression performances of both gases. Thus, the compression performance of steam could be predicted by the compression performance of air using the developed dimensionless parameters

[en] In this report a graphical method to analyze the direct suspension-cyclon heat exchangers, in multi-stage configuration is presented. Each tube-cyclon stage is regarded as an equilibrium unit. The modification of the graphical method is considered in the case of solid entrained by the current of gas leaving the cyclon, and of gas by-passed in solid feed. The graphical method of analysis is useful to evaluate the operating conditions of the heat exchanger. (Author) 6 ref

[en] Heat transfer is a living science and technical advances are constantly being made. However, in many cases, progress is limited by the equipment that is available on the market, rather than by knowledge of the heat transfer process. A case in point is the design of economizers: in such equipment a small quantity of water (with a relatively good heat transfer coefficient) is heated by a large quantity of low-pressure gas (with an inherently low heat transfer coefficient). As a first step in design finned tubing is used to lessen the discrepancy in coefficients. From this point, it becomes apparent that the equipment consists of a small number of tubes (to maintain good velocity on the water side) of considerable length (to provide sufficient area). In the process industries the base pressure, though low, may be in the region of 0.5 bar, and there is no convenient flue in which to place the heat recovery coil. It is therefore contained in a flat-sided enclosure, which is ill-fitted to pressure containment and is therefore reinforced with a plethora of structural sections. Such inelegant construction is quite common in North America; in Europe, cylindrical containments of vast size have been supplied for the same purposes. The real shortcoming is a successful marriage of different disciplines to produce reliable and efficient heat transfer equipment suitably contained

[en] Evaporative cooling is a very effective way for exhaust heat recovery that uses both latent heat and sensible heat. This study investigated the performance of a heat recovery system using evaporative cooling. The experimental apparatus comprised a plastic heat exchanger, a water spray nozzle, an air blowing fan, a water circulation pump, and measuring sensors for the temperature, humidity, and flow rate. The effectiveness of the sensible heat recovery without evaporation was measured and compared with that of the total heat recovery with evaporation. The effectiveness of the sensible and total heat recoveries decreased as the air flow rate increased, and a much higher effectiveness was obtained with the counterflow arrangement in both cases. For total heat recovery, the effectiveness increased with the water flow rate, and the parallel flow arrangement was found to be more sensitive to the water flow rate than the counterflow arrangement