Bath University Research
Cal Gavin works closely with a range of education boards to help create new links with students as well as carrying out various research tasks which might be required for one student to gain the qualification they need to pass university. In recent years Cal Gavin has worked with universities around the world including Manchester University.
Cal Gavin recently carried out various research activities with Bath University. The research was carried out along side Professor Barry Crittenden and other professors within the University. It was based about hiTRAN and the science of fouling within heat exchangers and how to reduce the fouling which might occur. The research was carried out using a continuous flow loop and batch apparatus.
Bath University can generate crude oil fouling and change the rate of fouling accordingly via changes in the experiment temperature and the speed at which the experiment is run. The results which have been gained by the research at Bath University will be used to gain a correlation between two variables which will show the rate of fouling and how it is been produced.
The second phase of the research carried out focused on the modifications made to the apparatus to mimic how hiTRAN would work and the results it could produce. Again, the results for this have also been collected and the reductions in the rate of fouling have been concluded. The CFD simulation has also been used to help calculate the shear stresses within a bare tube as well as been calculated with hiTRAN.
Research into velocities, pressure drops and heat transfer have also been simulated for the system with and without hiTRAN, again to give accurate readings on the enhancements which can be made with hiTRAN to help reduce fouling within heat exchangers.
