Peterson, Per F. and Zhao, Haihua and Niu, Fenglei and Huang, Wensheng and Schmidt, Jens and Schulte-Fischedick, Jan (2006) Development of C-SiC ceramic compact plate heat exchangers for high temperature heat transfer applications. In: Annual Meeting of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers, San Francisco, 12.-17.11.2006. Annual Meeting of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers, 2006-11-12 - 2006-11-17, San Francisco.
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Abstract
This paper investigates the use of polymer and liquid silicon infiltrated carbon/silicon-carbide composite (C-SiC) materials for the development of inexpensive compact heat exchangers, as part of efforts for thermochemical hydrogen production. These heat exchangers will be capable of operating in the temperature range of 500 to 1400°C with high-pressure helium, liquid fluoride salts (a potential intermediate heat transfer fluid), or other corrosive gases such as SO3 and HI. C-SiC composites have several potentially attractive features, including ability to maintain nearly full mechanical strength to temperatures approaching 1400°C, inexpensive and commercially available fabrication materials, and the capability for simple forming, machining and joining of carbon-carbon performs, allowing the fabrication of highly complex component geometries. To meet cost goal, candidate materials must have relatively low bulk costs, and fabrication methods must extrapolate to low-cost mass manufacturing. Composite compact offset fin plate heat exchangers concept has been developed to meet the above functional and cost goals, which will serve as the intermediate heat exchanger (IHX) to transfer high temperature heat from a helium-cooled high temperature nuclear reactor to a liquid salt intermediate loop which couples to hydrogen production loops. The IHX uses offset fin structures with fin width and height at 1 mm scale. The detailed local and global thermal mechanical stress analyses show that the designed composite plate heat exchanger can tolerate pressure difference up to 9 MPa and large temperature difference from two fluid sides. Two potential low cost methods to fabricate C-SiC are liquid silicon (melt) infiltration (MI) and Polymer Infiltration and Pyrolization (PIP). Mechanical strength tests on MI coupons show above 200 MPa failure stress. Leak-tight pyrolytic carbon coatings have been successfully applied on MI C-SiC coupons and excellent helium hermeticity were obtained under high pressure and stress after coating. PIP plates with high-quality millimeter-scale fins formed using teflon molds have been successfully demonstrated. The teflon molds were proven to be reusable, so that the process could be extrapolated to inexpensive mass fabrication of compact ceramic heat exchangers. Prototype test heat exchangers are being fabricated basing on both MI and PIP methods.
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Document Type: | Conference or Workshop Item (Speech) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Title: | Development of C-SiC ceramic compact plate heat exchangers for high temperature heat transfer applications | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Date: | 2006 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Journal or Publication Title: | Annual Meeting of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers, San Francisco, 12.-17.11.2006 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Refereed publication: | No | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Open Access: | No | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Gold Open Access: | No | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
In SCOPUS: | No | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
In ISI Web of Science: | No | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Status: | Published | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Keywords: | high temperature heat exchanger, ceramic matrix composites, thermochemical hydrogen production, design, materials development | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Event Title: | Annual Meeting of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Event Location: | San Francisco | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Event Type: | international Conference | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Event Start Date: | 12 November 2006 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Event End Date: | 17 November 2006 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Organizer: | American Institute of Chemical Engineers | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
HGF - Research field: | Energy | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
HGF - Program: | Efficient Energy Conversion (old) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
HGF - Program Themes: | E VG - Combustion and Gas Turbine Technologies (old) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
DLR - Research area: | Energy | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
DLR - Program: | E VG - Combustion and Gas Turbine Technologies | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
DLR - Research theme (Project): | E - Wärmetauscher (old) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Location: | Stuttgart | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Institutes and Institutions: | Institute of Structures and Design > Ceramic Composite Structures Institute of Engineering Thermodynamics > Thermal Process Technology | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Deposited By: | Schulte-Fischedick, Dr.-Ing. Jan | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Deposited On: | 23 Jan 2007 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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