Performance enhancement of rotary air preheater by the use of pin shaped turbulators

• Main Authors: Al-Kayiem, Hussain H., Mahdi, H. A. A.
• Format: Book Section
• Published: WITpress 2010
• Subjects: TJ Mechanical engineering and machinery
• Online Access: http://eprints.utp.edu.my/4238/1/PaperInfo.asp%3FPaperID%3D21298; http://www.witpress.com; http://eprints.utp.edu.my/4238/
• Institution: Universiti Teknologi Petronas

The present paper presents the contribution on the performance enhancement study of a regenerative Ljongstrom type air preheater. The experimental analyses are carried out to study the performance enhancement of the system by regular artificial roughening of the heat transfer elements using pin-shap...