Heat Exchanger
Simple Model |
Counter-Current |
Co-Current |
Heat exchangers enable a transfer of thermal energy from a high-energy working fluid to a low-energy fluid. In the counter-current heat exchanger, the hot and cold fluids flow in opposite directions, which minimizes the temperature differential between the fluids at any given point and thus the resulting irreversibility. In the co-current heat exchanger, the fluids flow in the same direction. You can use the co-current heat exchanger to investigate the gain in efficiency achieved via the counter-current design, but you need not choose one or the other; the simple heat-exchanger model will calculate the exchange of energy via First Law constraints.
Possible assumptions: Co-current, counter-current, isobaric hot-side, isobaric cold-side
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