Heat Exchanger Action

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.

I will be attending the above meeting...... YES/NO

I will be accompanied by……………………………………………………………..

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I nominate...... to attend in my place

I would like to give a 5 minute impromptu talk on the following subject………. .

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Please post or email me maps showing Campus/Meeting location………………………..YES/NO

Any Special Requirements (Food/Accessibility)……………………………………

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Name......

Organisation......

Address (for Map)…………………………………………………………………………..

Tel. number......

E-mail:………………………………………

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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