HEAT EXCHANGER ACTION
GROUP (HEXAG)
David Reay & Associates,
PO Box 25,WhitleyBay,
Tyne & Wear NE26 1QT, UK
Phone +44 (0)191 251 2985
Fax +44 (0)131 451 3129 (Heriot-Watt)
Email: Web address:
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September 2007.
Dear HEXAG Member
26THHEXAG MEETING, QUEEN MARY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON,
TUESDAY 23 OCTOBER 2007.
Please find below a provisional agenda and reply form for the next HEXAG meeting, to be held on Tuesday 23 October in Room 602, 6th Floor, Physics building, QMUL. Registration & Coffee will be from 09.30-10.15 am..
The campus is between Mile End station (Central line) and Stepney Green (District & Hammersmith and City lines), on the Mile End Road – 5-6 minutes walk from the stations. For maps etc. see the attached Mile End Campus map.
London has plenty of hotels, but locally the City Hotel, 12 Osborn Street (tel: 0207 247 3313) and the Ibis Hotel at Stratford (one tube stop away – are suggested by our hosts. I have chosen the Ibis.
The meeting will be hosted by Professor John Rose, School of Engineering & Materials Sciences. There will be an opportunity to view research in the Laboratories in the afternoon.
There will be a registration fee of £30.00 incl. VAT, payable on the day, to cover the buffet lunch, tea & coffee and expenses. Postgraduate students/retired members may attend for £10.00 incl. VAT (i.e. at cost). Please make cheques payable to David Reay & Associates. These (or cash) will be collected at the door, and receipts given.
If you require paper copies of maps, and/or wish to give an impromptu presentation in the afternoon, please see Reply Form.
Kind regards,
David Reay,
HEXAG Co-ordinator.
26TH HEXAG MEETING
QMUL, 23 OCTOBER 2007.
PROVISIONAL AGENDA
09.30 - 10.15 Registration & Coffee (Room 602, PhysicsBuilding)
10.20 - 10.25 Welcome to the University by Prof. John Rose
10.25 - 10.30 Update on HEXAG activities and arrangements for the day – David Reay, HEXAG Co-ordinator.
Technical Presentations
10.30 – 11.00 Understanding Heat Exchanger Design Margins. Hans Zettler, HTRI
11.00 – 11.30 CFD Modelling of Natural Ventilation with Buoyancy and Wind Effect. Weizhong Xiang, Hoare Lea Consulting Engineers.
11.30 – 12.00 Thermal Nanofluids for Heat Transfer Intensification Applications. Dongsheng Wen, QMUL.
12.00 – 12.10 Short Break
12.10 – 12.40 Recent work on Ice Slurries, Ice Pigging and De-fouling of Heat Exchangers & Pipes. Joe Quarini, BristolUniversity.
12.40 – 13.10 The Development & Modelling of Low Adhesive and Hydrophobic Surfaces – Is there any Use in Heat Exchanger Design? Yuying Yan, University of Nottingham.
13.10 - 14.10 Buffet Lunch
Technical Presentations (cont.)
14.15 – 14.35 Where should we concentrate Process Heat Recovery Resources? – An Opportunity for Industrial Heat Pump Manufacturers. David Reay, David Reay & Associates.
15.00 – 15.30 Impromptu Presentations (See Reply Form)
15.30 Formal close of meeting.
15.35 – 16.30 Laboratory Tour
15.35 onwards: Tea available.
Reply Form on next page
26THHEXAG MEETING
QUEEN MARY, UNIVERSITY OF LONDON
Tuesday 23 October, 2007.
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Please post or email me maps showing Campus/Meeting location………………………..YES/NO
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Please return this form by 15 October to:
David Reay, David Reay & Associates, PO Box 25, Whitley Bay, Tyne & Wear NE26 1QT, UK.
Or (preferably) E-mail your responses to
You may fax to 0131 451 3129 instead (Heriot-Watt fax – please mark for attention of Dr. Peter Kew).
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