Engineer, Politecnico di Bari
Born in Mesagne (Italy), in 1980. He is a Mechanical Engineer, he has been working at Politecnico di Bari since 2009; PhD thesis entitled "Fluid dynamic design optimization of mechanical and energy systems"; he is currently working as research associate. Research dealing with gas to gas heat exchangers, hydraulics and pneumatics, fluid machinery, proportional valves, alternative energy, aerospace propulsion, control systems, data acquisition, fluid-dynamic optimization with genetic algorithms coupled to CFD.
Speeches
Enrico Nobile will chair the Academic Roundtable that will see professors from distinguished universities around the world discussing forefront optimization-related research projects and applications. Participants can contribute with their views on the challenges of these research activities and cast a light on the skills and knowledge that future designers must-have.
Authors: Amirante Riccardo, Tamburrano Paolo
This paper aims to perform the fluid dynamic design optimization of an innovative high temperature gas to gas heat exchanger. The immersed particle heat exchanger employs ceramic particles as an intermediate solid medium with high thermal capacity: the particles fall in a column where a hot gas flows from the bottom to the top; the warmed up particles are then collected at the bottom of the column and inserted at the top of a second column where they transfer the accumulated heat to a counterflowing cold gas. This innovative heat exchanger is suitable to externally fired gas turbines fed by dirty fuels, such as biomass and coal. The potential of such heat exchange mode was previously demonstrated, both theoretically and experimentally. In this paper, an effective genetic algorithm, MOGAII, is coupled with a 3D computational fluid dynamics (CFD) analysis to perform the geometric optimization of the immersed particle heat exchanger: the goal is the minimization of its size for an assigned efficiency. The environment employed to couple MOGAII with the commercial CFD tools is modeFRONTIER, by ESTECO.
