Performance of open-cell foam heat exchanger under various operating condition

Maidan Al Hadri, Muhammad Albaihaqqi (2023) Performance of open-cell foam heat exchanger under various operating condition. Project Report. Universiti Teknikal Malaysia Melaka, Melaka, Malaysia. (Submitted)

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Abstract

Metal foam is utilised extensively in the automotive, furniture, and construction industries. In this study, a hybrid radiator with porous foam is studied as an alternative to a present radiator. Radiators are heat exchangers that transmit thermal energy from one medium to the other for cooling and heating. Due to their great heat conductivity, radiators are typically built of aluminium and cooper. Radiators have two type, first downflow type and second is crossflow type. This project objective are design the conventional radiator and hybrid radiator. Another project objective are to simulate temperature characteristics across the open-cell foam radiator and verify the numerical result with experimental data. The radiator design will be exported to CFD software investigate temperature characteristics across opencell foam heat exchanger (radiator). The temperature of the flow is limited to 313.15 K, 333.15 K and 353.15 K and the porosity, ε of porous foam is 0.90 used for hybrid radiator in the study. The flow rates are in between 1L/min, 1.6 L/min and 2.2 L/min. The design of open-cell foam radiator was done by using Autodesk Inventor software. The design of radiator was follow approximately the dimension of Perodua Kancil 850cc radiator. This study simulates temperature characteristics across the open-cell foam radiator by using ANSYS Fluent software. From this simulation, the results that are obtained the behaviour of temperature characteristics across the open-cell foam radiator. The temperature behavior was discussed in detail by observing the contours color of the simulation data figure. The graph shown the comparison of the outlet temperature and heat transfer rate of experimental and simulation.

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