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ENCIT 2020
18th Brazilian Congress of Thermal Sciences and Engineering
THERMAL DESIGN OF FIN-AND-TUBE HEAT EXCHANGERS USING PARTICLE SWARM OPTIMIZATION
Submission Author:
Bruno Almeida , SP
Co-Authors:
Bruno Almeida, Bruno Rodrigues Costa
Presenter: Bruno Almeida
doi://10.26678/ABCM.ENCIT2020.CIT20-0529
Abstract
Fin-and-tube heat exchangers (FTHEs) are widely used in power engineering and chemical engineering applications mainly because of their high compactness. The traditional design approach for Fin-and-tube heat exchangers involves rating a large number of different exchanger geometries to identify those that satisfy a given heat duty and a set of geometric and operational constraints. However, this approach is time-consuming and does not assure an optimal solution. This paper applies a particle swarm optimization (PSO) technique for design optimization of FTHEs by considering both the total annual cost and the total weight as the objective function. The design parameters considered are the geometric properties of the heat exchanger in a total of 7 variables. In order to evaluate the PSO algorithm, five PSO methods were used varying the size of the population (particles) for comparison purposes and the results were also compared with the genetic algorithm (GA).
Keywords
Optimization, Fin-and-tube heat exchanger, Particle Swarm Optimization
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