The invention relates to a method for determining the state of a heat exchanger device (10) that comprises means for transferring heat with the aid of at least one process stream. A thermohydraulic simulation of the at least one process stream through at least one passage (14) in the heat exchanger device (10) is carried out in order to determine temperature and/or heat transfer coefficient profiles of the means for transferring heat.

A heat exchanger monitoring system includes a heat exchanger 11 capable of receiving a flow F of a working fluid therethrough. A first sensor 12 is disposed upstream of the heat exchanger 11 for measuring at least one property of fluid relating to an amount of contaminant material carried by a first flow entering the heat exchanger 11 and configured to output a first sensor signal indicative of the measured property of the fluid. A second sensor 14 is disposed downstream of the heat exchanger 11 for measuring the same property of the fluid relating to an amount of contaminant material carried by a second flow exiting the heat exchanger 11 and configured to output a second sensor signal indicative of the measured property of the fluid.

A cooling tower simulation system may receive a measurement from a cooling tower sensor and generate a predicted output of a cooling tower system based on a model of the cooling tower system. The simulation system may generate an estimated output using an extended Kalman filter with the measurement and the predicted output as inputs, wherein the estimated output represents a characteristic of the cooling tower system.

A chiller coil system for an air intake system of a combustion gas turbine system includes an array of chiller cooler modules. The chiller coil system includes at least one first chiller coil and at least one second chiller coil. The first chiller coil has a first overall thermal conductance. The second chiller coil has a second overall thermal conductance greater than the first overall thermal conductance.

A multi-split air-conditioning system, and a method for calculating a heat exchange capacity thereof. The method includes: acquiring a total heat exchange capacity of a multi-split air-conditioning system; acquiring a pressure difference between two pressure measurement points on each air pipe; acquiring the distance between the two pressure measurement points on each air pipe; acquiring the pipe diameter of each air pipe; acquiring the friction factor of each air pipe; acquiring the density of a heat exchange medium in each air pipe; and according to the total heat exchange capacity of the multi-split air-conditioning system, the pressure difference and distance between the two pressure measurement points on each air pipe, the pipe diameter and friction factor of each air pipe, and the density of the heat exchange medium in each air pipe, calculating a heat exchange capacity of each indoor unit.

A controller configured to: acquire a temperature of a first component and a temperature of a second component; and adjust a thermal resistance of a medium between the first component and the second component based on the acquired temperature of the first component, the acquired temperature of the second component, a first temperature limit of the first component, and a second temperature limit of the second component.

The above mentioned invention describes a process for cooling a gas mixture of SO.sub.2 and/or SO.sub.3 and water, wherein the gas mixture is cooled by means of a first heat exchanger carrying a coolant. The temperature of the coolant lies above the dew point of the gas or gas mixture.

A method for testing a two-phase cooling device is provided. The cooling device has a housing surrounding a cavity and a cooling medium within the cavity. The method includes controlling a temperature of ambient air of the cooling device such that the cooling medium within the cavity transitions from its liquid state to its solid state and/or from its solid state to its liquid state, while monitoring a first temperature of the cooling device, determining whether the monitored first temperature fulfills a predetermined criterion, and determining that the cooling device is overfilled with the cooling medium if the predetermined criterion is fulfilled.

A computer-implemented method for the numerical simulation of a heat exchanger with a numerical model comprising a plurality of elemental volumes such that they all correspond to the same configuration such that the joint of all the elemental volumes reproduces the volume in which heat transfer occurs between a hot fluid and a cold fluid. The simulation method establishes an iterative method on the set of elemental volumes in such a way that the relevant variables of each volume are updated using the data provided by the interpolation module without the need to run a classical simulation on the flow. The result is the assessment of the variables of interest in the entire volume of the heat exchanger for predetermined operating conditions.

The present disclosure describes a method for predicting flow and heat transfer performance of all flow patterns in a crude oil heat exchanger, including: constructing an all-flow-pattern oil-water two-phase flow prediction model; inputting parameters of a to-be-tested fluid to the all-flow-pattern oil-water two-phase flow prediction model, and determining a dispersed phase of the to-be-tested fluid with an oil-water phase inversion model, according to the dispersed phase of the to-be-tested fluid is a water phase or an oil phase, solving a water drop or an oil drop distribution based fully coupled population balance model (PBM) until convergence to obtain a first result or a second result, determine a flow pattern of the to-be-tested fluid, and flow and heat transfer associated parameters according to the first result or the second result; determining an overall heat transfer coefficient of a heat exchanger.