Design and Development of a Heat Recovery Wheel for Low Duty Industrial Applications.

This project report proposes a cheap and effective way of designing and fabricating of heat recovery wheel that may be effective to run low duty applications such as motors, compressors. Since the heat recovery wheel has high torque it can be used in nuclear power plants for driving pumps. The design process starts by considering its top level objective and passing these criteria to its sub assembled designs. Finally, the paper proposes outline of theoretical background of heat recovery wheel, working principle, various design parameters, innovative use of fabrication works and industrial implementation ways. The design process involves the design of chambers, selection of liquid, amount of heat addition, heat rejection, and many more. These sub design parameters help in finding out head in which the cycle can be operated. The torque that can be obtained from our model is also calculated. The paper also proposes the failures in the first two designs and explains how we arrived at the final design. The fabricated work involves usage of available materials in and around effectively. As a result, final assembly of the engine meets the objective.