High Temperature Ceramic Heat Exchangers

The use of ceramic materials yields higher temperatures and subsequently a higher efficiency.

High temperature ceramic heat exchangers.

Promising applications for high temperature heat exchangers hthe based on ceramics include externally fired gas turbines efgt using concentrated solar power or biomass as a thermal power source. Heat recovery at a high temperature level is essential in industrial thermal processing. In glass ceramics or metal production. Hieta have developed and deployed core ip in two key areas that allow us to produce high temperature up to 800 c heat exchangers that are a step change improvement on the current industry standards.

Or waste heat recovery in industrial processes at temperatures above 900 c e g. A proposal for the use of a very high temperature ceramic heat exchanger in gas turbine power production. The present project aims to develop a new generation of ceramic heat exchangers for high temperature heat recovery with the target of significantly reducing the size and weight as well as also the price of such components by simplifying the manufacturing process and allowing a higher flexibility in the heat. Seto csp program summit 2019 background 2 higher temperatures 700 c and pressures require components.

A highly efficient gas turbine plant is considered which uses ceramic heat exchanger components to take advantage of the very high turbine inlet temperatures available today. Resulting in the industry s most corrosion resistant heat exchanger. The materials used in the heat exchangers may have temperatures in excess of 1000 spl deg c. Scientist and group leader thermal and structural materials march 19 2019 oakland ca.

Umax shell and tube heat exchangers utilize umax advanced ceramic tubing coupled with ptfe tube sheets and corrosion resistant o rings.