Plate Heat Exchanger Enhancement Techniques

Suresh Sundaramurthy is the Head of the Department of Chemical Engineering at Maulana Azad National Institute of Technology, Bhopal, India. He earned his Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee and has held postdoctoral, visiting faculty, and research positions at institutions including CUNY (USA), AIT Thailand, JNCASR Bengaluru, IIT Kanpur, and Pondicherry University. His research interests span catalysts, reactor design, environmental biotechnology, waste‑to‑energy, nanoengineered materials, critical minerals, decarbonation, and biofuels, green hydrogen.Mohammad Reza Sarmasti Emami is a PhD student at Sistan and Baluchestan University of Zahedan, Iran, where received his master’s degree and licentiate degree. He is currently working on two-phase close thermosyphons and their optimization. He has authored more than 50 peer-reviewed journal publications, 20 international conference proceedings, three Malaysian patents, and four book. He currently serves as a reviewer for five international high impact journals in the field of engineering and sciences.

• 1. Basic and Fundamental Principles of Plate Heat Exchangers (PHEs): Thermal Storage and Sustainable Development2. Recent Progress in PHEs3. Basic Equations for Design and Predicting Performance of PHEs4. Heat Transfer Enhancement Techniques in PHEs (Types of Inserts and tubes)5. Numerical Study of Heat Transfer Enhancement in PHEs6. Finite Time Thermodynamics Analysis and Research in PHEs7. Methods of Process Parameters Optimization in Performance of PHEs8. Fouling and Corrosion Problems and Prevention of PHEs9. Industrial PHEs: Operation and Maintenance Towards Energy Perspectives10. Scale Up and Commercialization of PHEs—State of the Art Initiatives and Issues11. Consecutive Charging and Discharging of PCM-based PHE12. Time-dependent Simulation Model for the PCM Phase Transition in PHEs13. Nanofluids with Nano-and Microstructure Surface in PHEs14. Process Intensification of PHEs in the Industry Sector15. Thermal Performance of Prototype PHE with Minichannels16. Heat transfer augmentation techniques in PHEs17. Micro-and Nanoscale Heat Transfer and Fluid Flow in PHEs18. PHEs in Power Generation and Energy Storage19. Usage of Radiation Shielding Materials and Heat Transfers in PHEs20. Recent Advances in Different Machine Learning Techniques in PHEs21. Applications of Neural Networks and Fuzzy-based Algorithms for Nanofluid-based Heat Transfer Studies in PHEs22. Bottlenecks Approach for Achieving Circular Economy and the Energy Transition23. Exergoeconomic Analysis of PHEs based on Joule/Brayton Cycle and Rankine Cycle24. Integration of Industrial Waste Heat Recover Through PHE Based Systems, Circular Economy and Efficiency Measures