ABSTRACT
In solar energy, air-conditioning, refrigeration, automotive, computer, desalination, pharmaceutical and food industries, and energy recovery applications, various types of polymer heat exchangers are used. Mechanical and thermal designs have equal importance in designing of a heat exchanger. Polymer matrix composites (PMCs) that are to be used in heat exchangers should have a high thermal conductivity; for this, aluminum, copper, silver, and other materials that have high thermal conductivity are added for reinforcement. In exfoliated nanocomposites physical properties can be achieved fully because the layers are connected by the polymer. But in reality, nanocomposites with low volume ratios have poorer mechanical properties than classical PMCs with high volume ratios and reach the mechanical properties of Nylon-6 with 48% glass fibers. D. Zakardas et al. came up with a novel design of polymer heat exchangers for liquid-to-liquid or condensing fluid-to-liquid heat exchanger.
