Next-Generation Air-Cooled Heat Exchangers

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Program:
IDEAS
Award:
$495,000
Location:
College Park, Maryland
Status:
ALUMNI
Project Term:
07/25/2014 - 10/24/2015
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Technology Description:

The University of Maryland (UMD) will leverage recent advances in additive manufacturing to develop a next-generation air-cooled heat exchanger. The UMD team will assess the performance and cost of current state-of-the-art technology, including innovative manufacturing processes. The team will then utilize computer models to simulate a wide-range of novel heat exchanger designs that can radically enhance air-side heat transfer performance. The team will then physically build and test two 1 kilowatt (kW) prototype devices. If successful, these heat exchangers would enable new, highly-efficient dry cooling of steam condensers that could eliminate evaporative water losses from power plant cooling. Advances in efficient air-side cooling could also have significant spillover benefits in aerospace, automobile, air-conditioning and refrigeration, electronics cooling, and chemical processing.

Contact

ARPA-E Program Director:
Dr. Addison Stark
Project Contact:
Prof. Michael Ohadi
Press and General Inquiries Email:
ARPA-E-Comms@hq.doe.gov
Project Contact Email:
ohadi@umd.edu

Partners

The Boeing Company

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