Abstract
This paper presents the design of air-heaters made of bimetallic thermosyphons to recover the energy contained in the flue gases of industrial boilers. A computer program written in Visual Basic that performs the thermal calculation of different compact air-heaters was used. With the program it was possible to obtain several configurations of air-heaters that satisfy the operating conditions of a Cleaver-Brooks CB 250 boiler. A compact air-heater was designed with dimensions of only the fifth part of the boiler dimension. With this design efficiency increase of 5% was obtained.
| Translated title of the contribution | Development of heat pipes for boilers based on two phase elements |
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| Original language | Spanish |
| Pages (from-to) | 83-90 |
| Number of pages | 8 |
| Journal | Informacion Tecnologica |
| Volume | 22 |
| Issue number | 5 |
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| State | Published - 2011 |