Study on hydro-thermal coupling heat transfer performance of flue gas-water heat exchanger

Abstract The finned tube heat exchanger is the core component of the flue gas waste heat utilization system. In order to optimize and control the heat transfer efficiency of the heat exchanger in real time under smart heating conditions, we use the entransy dissipation thermal resistance as a kernel index to assess its heat exchange performance, and Trnsys simulation software is employed to figure out the influence of heat exchanger operating parameters (flue gas inlet velocity) and fin structure parameters (fin height, fin pitch) on heat exchanger heat transfer characteristics. The results show that in a reasonable range, increasing the flue gas inlet velocity can decrease the irreversible loss of heat transfer, obviously improving the heat transfer effect. The pitch and height of the fin also have a large impact on the performance of heat transfer. To significantly promote the performance of the heat exchanger, it is useful to reduce the pitch of the fin and increase the fin height within a reasonable range.