The effectiveness of a plate heat exchanger with a finite number of plates is affected by the end channels, and the channels between two adjacent passes. These effects become less significant as the number of thermal plates becomes large, N > 40, as shown by Kandlikar and Shah (1989). In the present paper, closed-form equations are derived for plate heat exchangers with N = infinity in terms of temperature effectiveness Psub 1 as a function of the capacity rate ratio Rsub 1 and the number of transfer units NTUsub 1 for the following pass arrangements: 1-1, 2-1, 2-2, 3-1, 3-2, 3-3, 4-1, 4-2, 4-3, and 4-4.
%0 Journal Article
%1 Kandlikar1989
%A Kandlikar, S. G.
%A Shah, R. K.
%D 1989
%J Journal of Heat Transfer
%K 1989 heat-exchanger plate-heat-exchanger
%N 2
%P 314-321
%R 10.1115/1.3250679
%T Asymptotic effectiveness-NTU formulas for multipass plate heat exchangers
%U http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/1.3250679
%V 111
%X The effectiveness of a plate heat exchanger with a finite number of plates is affected by the end channels, and the channels between two adjacent passes. These effects become less significant as the number of thermal plates becomes large, N > 40, as shown by Kandlikar and Shah (1989). In the present paper, closed-form equations are derived for plate heat exchangers with N = infinity in terms of temperature effectiveness Psub 1 as a function of the capacity rate ratio Rsub 1 and the number of transfer units NTUsub 1 for the following pass arrangements: 1-1, 2-1, 2-2, 3-1, 3-2, 3-3, 4-1, 4-2, 4-3, and 4-4.
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abstract = {The effectiveness of a plate heat exchanger with a finite number of plates is affected by the end channels, and the channels between two adjacent passes. These effects become less significant as the number of thermal plates becomes large, N > 40, as shown by Kandlikar and Shah (1989). In the present paper, closed-form equations are derived for plate heat exchangers with N = {infinity} in terms of temperature effectiveness P{sub 1} as a function of the capacity rate ratio R{sub 1} and the number of transfer units NTU{sub 1} for the following pass arrangements: 1-1, 2-1, 2-2, 3-1, 3-2, 3-3, 4-1, 4-2, 4-3, and 4-4.},
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author = {Kandlikar, S. G. and Shah, R. K.},
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journal = {Journal of Heat Transfer},
keywords = {1989 heat-exchanger plate-heat-exchanger},
month = {05},
number = 2,
pages = {314-321},
timestamp = {2014-03-21T12:17:12.000+0100},
title = {Asymptotic effectiveness-NTU formulas for multipass plate heat exchangers},
url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/1.3250679},
volume = 111,
year = 1989
}