Review demonstrates performance enhancements across corrugated plate heat exchangers, highlighting trade-offs in geometry, nanofluids, and data-driven modeling.
Key Points
Synthesize recent advances in corrugated plate heat exchanger performance enhancements, focusing on geometric design, advanced working fluids, sustainability, and data-driven modeling.
Systematically evaluated geometric parameters including chevron angle, corrugation pitch, depth, and plate spacing for their thermo-hydraulic impacts.
Assessed surface coatings for fouling mitigation alongside nanofluid thermophysical behavior, renewable integration, and artificial intelligence-assisted modeling techniques.
Optimizing plate surface geometry and anti-fouling coatings improves heat transfer and curbs pressure drop, though coating durability, environmental safety, and material costs remain challenging.
Nanofluids augment thermal conductivity but consistently incur trade-offs by elevating fluid viscosity, raising pumping power demands, and posing uncertain long-term risks to plate integrity.
Data-driven artificial intelligence and deep learning methods efficiently augment computational fluid dynamics to accelerate performance modeling, while unsteady and oscillatory flows remain critically understudied.