Publications by authors named "David Boullosa-Falces"
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- This research presents an AI model that optimizes energy supply, biocide dosing, and maintenance for heat exchangers, taking into account various environmental and economic factors.
- The study finds that biofilm leads to a significant drop in thermal efficiency (41%) and increases flow resistance (113%), resulting in a 9% rise in pump power consumption.
- The AI model identifies day 44 as the optimal time to start biocide dosing, helping to maintain heat exchanger performance while minimizing environmental impact from industrial operations.*
A novel efficiency reduction model to tubular heat exchanger based on heat transfer losses by biofilm adhesion is proposed, which included a modified equation based on the real data-dependent time, seawater, hydrodynamics and heat transfer resistance using computational fluid dynamics (CFD). The biofilm growth model based on Verhulst model and experimental data has been obtained and simulated in a CFD software tool to analyze the tubular heat exchanger performance prediction cooled by seawater. The biofilm CFD model with appropriate fit, and the correlation coefficient (R2) values are between 0.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFA CUSUM chart method is presented as an alternative tool for continuous monitoring of an electromagnetic field-based (EMF) antifouling (AF) treatment of a heat exchanger cooled by seawater. During an initial experimental phase, biofilm growth was allowed in a heat exchanger formed of four tubes until sufficient growth had been established. In two of the tubes, continuous EMF treatment was then applied.
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