Seminar 23 -- Additive Manufacturing of Heat Exchangers: Performance, Challenges and Opportunities PDF

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Manufacturing of heat exchangers for the HVAC&R industry, although well established, is capital and labor intensive. Additively manufactured heat exchangers are emerging as an alternative technology to traditional manufacturing. In this seminar, we present some ongoing research highlighting recent developments improving heat exchanger performance and producing more compact designs. The current high cost of 3D printing is addressed by exploring intermediate enhanced conventional manufacturing strategies. Process techniques are also presented that improve the performance of additively manufactured heat exchangers.

1. Performance Evaluation of Shape Optimized Air-to-Refrigerant Heat Exchangers Fabricated Using Additive and Conventional Manufacturing Techniques< /br> Vikrant Aute, Ph.D., Member, University of Maryland, College Park, MD
2. Opportunities and Challenges for Additively Manufactured Heat Exchangers for Air Heating and Cooling Applications< /br> Kashif Nawaz, Ph.D., Member, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN
3. Enhancement of Additively Manufactured HXs By Roughness and Topology Modification< /br>