Energy Efficient Waste Heat Recovery from an Engine Exhaust System

Abstract

The purpose of this thesis was to design and demonstrate the effectiveness of a new style of heat exchanger for waste heat recovery. The new design sought to optimize heat recovery from a gas turbine engine exhaust as well as assist with flow turning through a bend in the exhaust duct in order to minimize back-pressure increases. The analysis of the design was based around the use of the Allison 250 gas turbine engine. An analysis of the engine was performed to determine baseline operating parameters to be used in ANSYS CFD models.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Dec 01, 2016
Accession Number
AD1031540

Entities

People

  • Aaron R. Vandenberg

Organizations

  • Naval Postgraduate School

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Energy and Power Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Back Pressure
  • Boundary Layer
  • Computational Fluid Dynamics
  • Energy
  • Energy Systems
  • Flow Visualization
  • Fluid Dynamics
  • Fluid Flow
  • Gas Turbines
  • Generators
  • Heat Energy
  • Heat Exchangers
  • Heat Transfer
  • Specific Heat
  • Three Dimensional
  • Turbines
  • Uss Hue City

Fields of Study

  • Engineering

Readers

  • Combustion and Flow Dynamics.
  • Internal Combustion Engine (ICE) Technology.