Experimental Characterization of an Additively Manufactured Inconel 718 Heat Exchanger for High-Temperature Applications

Battaglia, Fabio; Arie, Martinus; Zhang, Xiang; Ohadi, Michael; Shooshtari, Amir

doi:10.3390/en16104156

Title: Experimental Characterization of an Additively Manufactured Inconel 718 Heat Exchanger for High-Temperature Applications

Journal Article · 17 May 2023 · Energies

DOI: https://doi.org/10.3390/en16104156 · OSTI ID:1974268

Battaglia, Fabio ^[1]; Arie, Martinus ^[1];

^[1]; Ohadi, Michael ^[1];

^[1]

Univ. of Maryland, College Park, MD (United States)

This work presents the experimental results of a novel, air-to-air, additively manufactured manifold-microchannel heat exchanger with straight fins on both sides. The heat exchanger was made of Inconel 718 using a direct metal laser sintering technique. The overall core size of the heat exchanger was 94 mm × 87.6 mm × 94.4 mm, with a fin thickness of 0.220 mm on both the hot and cold sides. The heat exchanger was tested with pressurized nitrogen gas at 300 °C and 340 kPa for the hot side, while air at an ambient condition was used for the cold side. An overall heat transfer of 276 W/m²K was obtained for Reynolds number values of 132 and 79 for the cold and hot sides, respectively. A gravimetric heat transfer density (Q/mΔT) of 4.7–6.7 W/kgK and a volumetric heat transfer density (Q/VΔT) of 6.9–9.8 kW/m³K were recorded for this heat exchanger with a coefficient of performance value that varied from 42 to 52 over the operating conditions studied here. The experimental pressure drop results were within 10% of the numerical values, while the corresponding heat transfer results were within 17% of the numerical results, mainly due to imperfections in the fabrication process. Despite this penalty, the performance of the tested heat exchanger was superior to the conventional plate-fin heat exchangers: more than 60% of improvements in both gravimetric and volumetric heat transfer densities were recorded for the entire range of experimental data.

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Research Organization:: Boeing Company, Seattle, WA (United States)

Sponsoring Organization:: USDOE Advanced Research Projects Agency - Energy (ARPA-E)

Grant/Contract Number:: AR0000692

OSTI ID:: 1974268

Alternate ID(s):: OSTI ID: 2418394

Journal Information:: Energies, Vol. 16, Issue 10; ISSN 1996-1073

Publisher:: MDPICopyright Statement

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

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