Resumen

POLUPAN, Georgiy; JARQUIN, Guillermo; CARVAJAL, Ignacio  y  PYSMENNY, Yevgen. Development of Heat Pipes for Boilers Based on Two Phase Elements. Inf. tecnol. [online]. 2011, vol.22, n.5, pp. 83-90. ISSN 0718-0764.  http://dx.doi.org/10.4067/S0718-07642011000500011.

This paper presents the design of air-heaters made of bimetallic thermosyphons to recover the energy contained in the flue gases of industrial boilers. A computer program written in Visual Basic that performs the thermal calculation of different compact air-heaters was used. With the program it was possible to obtain several configurations of air-heaters that satisfy the operating conditions of a Cleaver-Brooks CB 250 boiler. A compact air-heater was designed with dimensions of only the fifth part of the boiler dimension. With this design efficiency increase of 5% was obtained.

Palabras llave : air-heaters; heat pipes; energy saving; energy efficiency.