The basic design of regenerative heat exchanger

Regenerative heat exchangers are established as a means of heat recovery in many industrial applications. The fixed-bed regenerators are mostly used to transfer heat from hot flue gas to cold air. In this work, several mathematical models of regenerators and several calculation methods were compared, while the preferred method is Willmott’s open method from 1964. Analysis of the influence of geometrical and operational parameters was carried out for the linear regenerator model