Thermomechanical Behavior of Polymer Composite Heat Exchangers

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dc.contributor.advisorBar-Cohen, Avramen_US
dc.contributor.advisorBruck, Hugh Aen_US
dc.contributor.authorRobinson, Franklin Leeen_US
dc.contributor.departmentMechanical Engineeringen_US
dc.contributor.publisherDigital Repository at the University of Marylanden_US
dc.contributor.publisherUniversity of Maryland (College Park, Md.)en_US
dc.date.accessioned2012-02-17T06:36:15Z
dc.date.available2012-02-17T06:36:15Z
dc.date.issued2011en_US
dc.description.abstractIndustrial cooling with seawater, particularly at elevated temperature and salinity, shortens the useful lives of conventional metallic heat exchangers. Cost effective, corrosion-resistant heat exchangers are required to fully utilize available saline water resources. Polymer composites, which use carbon fibers for thermal and mechanical reinforcement, are a promising material for such heat exchangers. The present thesis provides a characterization and thermomechanical analysis of heat exchangers fabricated using thermally conductive polymers. The change in mechanical properties resulting from exposure to saltwater at elevated temperature is characterized for raw and reinforced polymers. Then, thermal performance of such heat exchangers is compared to that of heat exchangers fabricated from conventional corrosion-resistant materials. Finally, the mechanical and combined thermomechanical response of such heat exchangers to conditions typical of LNG operations is studied and compared to that of heat exchangers fabricated from conventional corrosion-resistant materials.en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1903/12216
dc.subject.pqcontrolledMechanical engineeringen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledcarbon fiberen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledcompositeen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledheat exchangeren_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledhygrothermalen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledpolymeren_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledthermomechanicalen_US
dc.titleThermomechanical Behavior of Polymer Composite Heat Exchangersen_US
dc.typeThesisen_US

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