Heat and Mass Transfer - Advances in Science and Technology Applications

the heat exchanger to avoid either evaporation of the cold fluid or condensation on the gas side. The approach followed to achieve the objective was composed of a set of tools such as design of experiments, computational fluid dynamics, artificial neural networks, exergy analysis, and process simulation. All these tools were required at some point of the design methodology. Although the overall approach seems to be rather complex and elaborated, it guided the results to the established objective.Two different types of heat exchanger technology were analyzed, resulting that for the objective of the design, the helical-tube heat exchanger, apart from fulfilling all the restrictions cited above, it also provides the larger power generation.

In terms of the results, additional conclusions can be drawn:

