The Study and Modeling of Adsorbed Regenerator

Plate Material

Kelsey McCusker

Regenerator

Objectives

• Successfully model the steady state process of the regenerator to determine the efficiency of the new design and material

• Investigate the complicated heat transfer between fluid and material to produce an effective resistance on a per plate basis

Methodology

• Develop a 2-D transient MATLAB model to predict the heat transfer flow path through the plate.• Use this specific model to generalize each plate and fold the results

into a larger transient model following the fluid and regenerator temperature nodes through each blow process over time.