Additive manufacturing (AM) allows engineers to re-think designs and offers high levels of design freedom. This makes the technology highly interdisciplinary as specialist knowledge is required to create design solutions. As part of a interdisciplinary master course, students were tasked to develop heat exchanger designs for AM.
The designs "HeatADD" and "HexHEX" highlight how unique the design solutions are. HeadADD was designed for a specific application idea which would pre-heat water before entering a laundry system and thus improving sustainability. HexHEX allows modular installation through the design inspiration of beehives which allows stacking and adding these modules to increase the capacity of the heat exchanging system.
Researchers
Fiona Schulz (Chalmers)
Students
Dominika Hamulczuk (HeatADD), Shanjith Raja (HeatADD), Simon Dybeck (HeatADD), Amir Makhamov (HexHEX), Christian Lunberg (HexHEX), Julia Tenuta Martins (HexHEX), Sena Otlu (HexHEX)
Course
TRA105: Tracks advanced - Product Development by Additive Manufacturing (2020)
Parts
Heat exchanger systems
Additive process used
Printing in EOS M290 machine at Chalmers