Energy Recovery in Poultry Plants by Heat Pipe Heat Exchangers

فاقد چكيده

Conservation of energy by waste heat recovery is important not only for cost reasons, but also for reducing primary energy consumption as well as reducing carbon dioxide production. This paper explains and discusses the simulation, performance, and successful applications of heat pipe heat exchangers (HPHE’s) for recovering waste heat from exhaust air in poultry plants. The advantages of this system are compactness, flexibility of system size, ease of operation, and minimum maintenance requirements. The energy recovered from the exhaust air is absorbed the incoming air to the poultry. The average rate of waste heat recovery and thermal effectiveness obtained from computer simulation are calculated. The payback period was less than two years. The evaluation of the thermal performance of the HPHE was based on the effectiveness-NTU.