Recuperator, the Glossary
A recuperator is a special purpose counter-flow energy recovery heat exchanger positioned within the supply and exhaust air streams of an air handling system, or in the exhaust gases of an industrial process, in order to recover the waste heat.[1]
Table of Contents
33 relations: Air handler, Aluminium, Atmosphere, Boundary layer, Carbon footprint, Combustion, Copper, Countercurrent exchange, Energy efficiency in transport, Energy recovery, Enthalpy, Exhaust gas, Gas turbine, Heat engine, Heat exchanger, Heat pipe, Heat recovery ventilation, Heat transfer coefficient, Heating, ventilation, and air conditioning, Humidity, Indoor air quality, Latent heat, Microturbine, Plastic, Regenerative heat exchanger, Run-around coil, Sensible heat, Stainless steel, Synthetic fiber, Thermal comfort, Thermal conductance and resistance, Thermal wheel, Waste heat.
- Energy recovery
- Engineering thermodynamics
- Heat exchangers
Air handler
An air handler, or air handling unit (often abbreviated to AHU), is a device used to regulate and circulate air as part of a heating, ventilating, and air-conditioning (HVAC) system. Recuperator and air handler are mechanical engineering.
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Aluminium
Aluminium (Aluminum in North American English) is a chemical element; it has symbol Al and atomic number 13.
Atmosphere
An atmosphere is a layer of gasses that envelop an astronomical object, held in place by the gravity of the object.
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Boundary layer
In physics and fluid mechanics, a boundary layer is the thin layer of fluid in the immediate vicinity of a bounding surface formed by the fluid flowing along the surface. Recuperator and boundary layer are heat transfer.
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A carbon footprint (or greenhouse gas footprint) is a calculated value or index that makes it possible to compare the total amount of greenhouse gases that an activity, product, company or country adds to the atmosphere.
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Combustion
Combustion, or burning, is a high-temperature exothermic redox chemical reaction between a fuel (the reductant) and an oxidant, usually atmospheric oxygen, that produces oxidized, often gaseous products, in a mixture termed as smoke.
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Copper
Copper is a chemical element; it has symbol Cu and atomic number 29.
Countercurrent exchange
Countercurrent exchange is a mechanism occurring in nature and mimicked in industry and engineering, in which there is a crossover of some property, usually heat or some chemical, between two flowing bodies flowing in opposite directions to each other. Recuperator and Countercurrent exchange are heat transfer.
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Energy efficiency in transport
The energy efficiency in transport is the useful travelled distance, of passengers, goods or any type of load; divided by the total energy put into the transport propulsion means. Recuperator and energy efficiency in transport are energy conservation.
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Energy recovery
Energy recovery includes any technique or method of minimizing the input of energy to an overall system by the exchange of energy from one sub-system of the overall system with another.
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Enthalpy
Enthalpy is the sum of a thermodynamic system's internal energy and the product of its pressure and volume.
Exhaust gas
Exhaust gas or flue gas is emitted as a result of the combustion of fuels such as natural gas, gasoline (petrol), diesel fuel, fuel oil, biodiesel blends, or coal.
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Gas turbine
A gas turbine, gas turbine engine, or also known by its old name internal combustion turbine, is a type of continuous flow internal combustion engine.
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Heat engine
A heat engine is a system that converts heat to usable energy, particularly mechanical energy, which can then be used to do mechanical work.
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Heat exchanger
A heat exchanger is a system used to transfer heat between a source and a working fluid. Recuperator and heat exchanger are heat exchangers and heat transfer.
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Heat pipe
A heat pipe is a heat-transfer device that employs phase transition to transfer heat between two solid interfaces. Recuperator and heat pipe are heat transfer.
Heat recovery ventilation
Heat recovery ventilation (HRV), also known as mechanical ventilation heat recovery (MVHR) or energy recovery ventilation (ERV), is a ventilation system that recovers energy by operating between two air sources at different temperatures. Recuperator and heat recovery ventilation are energy conservation, energy recovery, Heating, low-energy building and Sustainable building.
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Heat transfer coefficient
In thermodynamics, the heat transfer coefficient or film coefficient, or film effectiveness, is the proportionality constant between the heat flux and the thermodynamic driving force for the flow of heat (i.e., the temperature difference). It is used in calculating the heat transfer, typically by convection or phase transition between a fluid and a solid. Recuperator and heat transfer coefficient are heat transfer.
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Heating, ventilation, and air conditioning
Heating, ventilation, and air conditioning (HVAC) is the use of various technologies to control the temperature, humidity, and purity of the air in an enclosed space. Recuperator and Heating, ventilation, and air conditioning are mechanical engineering.
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Humidity
Humidity is the concentration of water vapor present in the air.
Indoor air quality
Indoor air quality (IAQ) is the air quality within buildings and structures.
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Latent heat
Latent heat (also known as latent energy or heat of transformation) is energy released or absorbed, by a body or a thermodynamic system, during a constant-temperature process—usually a first-order phase transition, like melting or condensation.
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Microturbine
A microturbine (MT) is a small gas turbine with similar cycles and components to a heavy gas turbine.
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Plastic
Plastics are a wide range of synthetic or semi-synthetic materials that use polymers as a main ingredient.
Regenerative heat exchanger
A regenerative heat exchanger, or more commonly a regenerator, is a type of heat exchanger where heat from the hot fluid is intermittently stored in a thermal storage medium before it is transferred to the cold fluid. Recuperator and regenerative heat exchanger are energy recovery and heat exchangers.
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Run-around coil
air handling units on the roof of an office building A run-around coil is a type of energy recovery heat exchanger most often positioned within the supply and exhaust air streams of an air handling system, or in the exhaust gases of an industrial process, to recover the heat energy. Recuperator and run-around coil are energy conservation, energy recovery, heat transfer, Heating, industrial equipment, low-energy building, mechanical engineering and Sustainable building.
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Sensible heat
Sensible heat is heat exchanged by a body or thermodynamic system in which the exchange of heat changes the temperature of the body or system, and some macroscopic variables of the body or system, but leaves unchanged certain other macroscopic variables of the body or system, such as volume or pressure.
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Stainless steel
Stainless steel, also known as inox, corrosion-resistant steel (CRES), and rustless steel, is an alloy of iron that is resistant to rusting and corrosion.
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Synthetic fiber
Synthetic fibers or synthetic fibres (in British English; see spelling differences) are fibers made by humans through chemical synthesis, as opposed to natural fibers that are directly derived from living organisms, such as plants (like cotton) or fur from animals.
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Thermal comfort
Thermal comfort is the condition of mind that expresses subjective satisfaction with the thermal environment. Recuperator and thermal comfort are heat transfer.
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Thermal conductance and resistance
In heat transfer, thermal engineering, and thermodynamics, thermal conductance and thermal resistance are fundamental concepts that describe the ability of materials or systems to conduct heat and the opposition they offer to the heat current.
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Thermal wheel
A thermal wheel, also known as a rotary heat exchanger, or rotary air-to-air enthalpy wheel, energy recovery wheel, or heat recovery wheel, is a type of energy recovery heat exchanger positioned within the supply and exhaust air streams of air-handling units or rooftop units or in the exhaust gases of an industrial process, in order to recover the heat energy. Recuperator and thermal wheel are energy recovery, heat exchangers and industrial equipment.
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Waste heat
Waste heat is heat that is produced by a machine, or other process that uses energy, as a byproduct of doing work. Recuperator and Waste heat are heat transfer.
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See also
Energy recovery
- Absorption-compression heat pump
- Corner tube boiler
- Economizer
- Energy recovery
- Energy recycling
- Exhaust heat recovery system
- Fluid Equipment Development Company
- Heat pump
- Heat recovery steam generator
- Heat recovery ventilation
- Hydrogen turboexpander-generator
- Kinetic energy recovery system
- Mechanical vapor recompression
- Pinch analysis
- Recuperator
- Regenerative braking
- Regenerative heat exchanger
- Regenerative shock absorber
- Reppie waste-to-energy plant
- Run-around coil
- Seasonal thermal energy storage
- Solar-assisted heat pump
- Thermal wheel
- TurboSwing
- Ventilation air methane thermal oxidizer
- Waste heat recovery unit
Engineering thermodynamics
- Air preheater
- Bimetallic strip
- Clausius–Clapeyron relation
- Cryogenics
- Dühring's rule
- Dalton's law
- Drying
- Dynamic insulation
- Equation of state
- Expander cycle
- Heat of combustion
- Henry's law
- Hidden states of matter
- Hydrocarbon dew point
- Inversion temperature
- Jet engine
- Joule–Thomson effect
- Liquid air
- Liquid droplet radiator
- Ljungström air preheater
- Materials oscilloscope
- Non-random two-liquid model
- PC-SAFT
- Partial pressure
- Phase (matter)
- Piston-cylinder apparatus
- Power plant efficiency
- Psychrometrics
- Raoult's law
- Recuperator
- Redlich–Kwong equation of state
- Reid vapor pressure
- Relative volatility
- Standard temperature and pressure
- State of matter
- Statistical associating fluid theory
- Theorem of corresponding states
- Thermal efficiency
- Thermodynamic modelling
- True vapor pressure
- Vacuum cooling
- Van der Waals equation
- Vapor pressure
- Volatility (chemistry)
- Wong–Sandler mixing rule
Heat exchangers
- Baffle (heat transfer)
- Concentric tube heat exchanger
- Condenser (heat transfer)
- Copper in heat exchangers
- CuproBraze
- Downhole heat exchanger
- Dynamic scraped surface heat exchanger
- Flue-gas condensation
- Grate heater
- Ground-coupled heat exchanger
- Heat exchanger
- Heat sink
- Heater core
- Intercooler
- Internally grooved copper tube
- Jacketed vessel
- Marine heat exchanger
- Micro heat exchanger
- Moving-bed heat exchanger
- Pillow-plate heat exchanger
- Pinch analysis
- Plate heat exchanger
- Plate-fin heat exchanger
- Radiator (engine cooling)
- Radiator (heating)
- Reboiler
- Recuperative multi-tube cooler
- Recuperator
- Regenerative heat exchanger
- Sectional cooler
- Shell-and-tube heat exchanger
- Surface condenser
- Thermal interface material
- Thermal wheel
- Tubular Exchanger Manufacturers Association
- Waste heat recovery unit
- Water block
- Wellman Group