Blowerless heat exchanger based on micro-jet entrainment
AssigneeHoneywell International Inc.
InventorsWei Yang, Chunbo Zhang, Steven J. Eickhoff, Alex Gu
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AssigneeHoneywell International Inc.
InventorsWei Yang, Chunbo Zhang, Steven J. Eickhoff, Alex Gu
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A blowerless heat exchanger apparatus based on micro-jet entrainment is disclosed. The heat exchanger apparatus incorporates a number of fins regularly spaced apart from each other and parallel to each other, thus letting air currents flow in the space defined between them. A dense array of micro-jet nozzles can be fabricated on the fins surface pointing to the flow direction of the air movement in order to induce increase airflow. The air from an air compressor delivers sufficient airflow on the fins surface utilizing micro-jets entrainment. The micro-jet entrainment confirms strong turbulent around the micro-jets and suggests significant heat transfer enhancement. The turbulence from the micro-jets enhance the heat transfer coefficient, potentially by an order of magnitude, therefore allowing much larger fin spacing and leads to huge reduction of flow resistance and overall power consumption.
An improved blowerless heat exchanger apparatus, comprising:
8 The apparatus of claim 1 wherein the mass flow rate from said air compressor is substantially smaller than the mass flow rate of said entrainment flow.
A method for configuring an improved blowerless heat exchanger apparatus, comprising:
A method for configuring an improved blowerless heat exchanger apparatus, comprising:
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