Incorporating Moldability Considerations During the Design of Polymer Heat Exchangers

Journal of Mechanical Design, Transactions Of the ASME - Tập 133 Số 8 - 2011
Juan Cevallos, Satyandra K. Gupta, Avram Bar‐Cohen1
1Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742

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Recently, available formulations of thermally enhanced polymer composites are attractive in heat exchanger applications due to their low cost and improved corrosion resistance compared to the conventional metal options. This paper presents a systematic approach to the design of plate-fin heat exchangers made out of thermally enhanced polymer composites. We have formulated the design problem as the life cycle cost minimization problem. The integrated design model introduced here accounts for heat transfer performance, molding cost, and assembly costs. We have adopted well-known models to develop individual parametric models that describe how heat transfer performance, molding cost, and assembly cost varies as a function of the geometric parameters of the heat exchanger. Thermally enhanced polymer composites behave differently from the conventional polymers during the molding process. The desired thin walled large structures are expected to pose challenges during the filling phase of the molding process. Hence, we have utilized experimentally validated simulations to develop a metamodel to identify difficult and impossible to mold design configurations. This metamodel has been integrated within the overall formulation to address the manufacturability considerations. This paper also presents several case studies that show how the material and labor cost strongly influence the final design.

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Journal of Mechanical Design, Transactions Of the ASME

Tập 133 Số 8

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