A comprehensive review on the current technologies and recent developments in high-temperature heat exchangers

S Mahmoudinezhad, M Sadi, H Ghiasirad… - … and Sustainable Energy …, 2023 - Elsevier
High-temperature heat exchangers are extensively studied today due to their benefits for
industrial processes. In most cases, there is a threshold for the maximum operating …

Generation IV nuclear reactors: Current status and future prospects

G Locatelli, M Mancini, N Todeschini - Energy Policy, 2013 - Elsevier
Generation IV nuclear power plants (GEN IV NPPs) are supposed to become, in many
countries, an important source of base load power in the middle–long term (2030–2050) …

Review on the characteristics of flow and heat transfer in printed circuit heat exchangers

C Huang, W Cai, Y Wang, Y Liu, Q Li, B Li - Applied Thermal Engineering, 2019 - Elsevier
Printed circuit heat exchanger (PCHE) is a compact heat exchanger with a series of
advantages, such as, high ability of heat transfer, bearing high pressure and low …

[HTML][HTML] A review of printed circuit heat exchangers for helium and supercritical CO2 Brayton cycles

L Chai, SA Tassou - Thermal Science and Engineering Progress, 2020 - Elsevier
Printed circuit heat exchangers (PCHEs) are a promising technology for helium and
supercritical CO 2 Brayton cycles due to their highly compact construction, very high heat …

A review on the thermal-hydraulic performance and optimization of printed circuit heat exchangers for supercritical CO2 in advanced nuclear power systems

G Liu, Y Huang, J Wang, R Liu - Renewable and Sustainable Energy …, 2020 - Elsevier
Printed circuit heat exchangers (PCHEs) are a widely considered candidate for heat
exchangers in the supercritical CO 2 Brayton cycle, which have been proposed to be used in …

Experimental investigation on SCO2-water heat transfer characteristics in a printed circuit heat exchanger with straight channels

W Chu, X Li, T Ma, Y Chen, Q Wang - … Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer, 2017 - Elsevier
The supercritical CO 2 Brayton cycle (SCO 2-BC) is proposed to be used as the concept of
fast cooled reactor (FCR), which is a typical application in the 4th generation reactors. The …

Optimization of fin arrangement and channel configuration in an airfoil fin PCHE for supercritical CO2 cycle

X Xu, T Ma, L Li, M Zeng, Y Chen, Y Huang… - Applied Thermal …, 2014 - Elsevier
As a new type of discontinuous fin, airfoil fin (AFF) can bring a better thermal-hydraulic
performance than Zigzag fin and S-shaped fin when applied to PCHE using supercritical CO …

Study on local thermal–hydraulic performance and optimization of zigzag-type printed circuit heat exchanger at high temperature

T Ma, L Li, XY Xu, YT Chen, QW Wang - Energy Conversion and …, 2015 - Elsevier
High temperature heat exchanger is one of the most important components to transfer heat
from the first loop to the second loop in the very high temperature reactor in nuclear energy …

Predicting heat transfer and flow features of supercritical CO2 in printed circuit heat exchangers with novel wavy minichannels

M Khoshvaght-Aliabadi, P Ghodrati, H Mortazavi… - International Journal of …, 2022 - Elsevier
Printed circuit heat exchangers (PCHEs) are unrivaled choices for heat exchange purposes
in power cycles working with natural refrigerants such as carbon dioxide (CO 2) …

[HTML][HTML] Micromanufacturing technologies of compact heat exchangers for hypersonic precooled airbreathing propulsion: A review

M Bao, W Min, Z Rui, Z Zhengping… - Chinese Journal of …, 2021 - Elsevier
Abstract The Hypersonic Precooled Combined Cycle Engine (HPCCE), which introduces
precooler into traditional hypersonic engine, is regarded as the most promising propulsion …