Possibilities of Heat Transfer Augmentation in Heat Exchangers with Minichannels for Marine Applications

Abstract

In the paper, new trends in the development of microchannel heat exchangers are presented. The exchangers developed in this way can be applied in marine industry. Main attention is focused on heat exchanger design with reduced size of passages, namely based on microchannels. In authors′ opinion, future development of high power heat exchangers will be based on networks of micro heat exchangers.

Keywords

• heat transfer intensification
• heat exchangers
• pumping power