What is a regenerative heat exchanger? How does a static type of regenerative heat exchanger differ from a dynamic type?

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What will be an ideal response?

Answer 1

Regenerative heat exchanger involves the alternate passage of the hot and cold fluid streams through the same flow area. The static type regenerative heat exchanger is basically a porous mass which has a large heat storage capacity, such as a ceramic wire mash. Hot and cold fluids flow through this porous mass alternately. Heat is transferred from the hot fluid to the matrix of the regenerator during the flow of the hot fluid and from the matrix to the cold fluid. Thus the matrix serves as a temporary heat storage medium. The dynamic type regenerator involves a rotating drum and continuous flow of the hot and cold fluid through different portions of the drum so that any portion of the drum passes periodically through the hot stream, storing heat and then through the cold stream, rejecting this stored heat. Again the drum serves as the medium to transport the heat from the hot to the cold fluid stream.