A triple heat exchanger, so called because there are three heat exchange processes taking place in it, was built to simulate the system behaviour of a nuclear reactor power plant or a solar heating plant which is characterized by the two circulating loops of the fluid flow. Experiments were carried out to study the temperature transients under disturbances in secondary fluid inlet temperature and power output from immersion heaters. Numerical results were obtained from the weighted residual formulation of the proposed dynamic model and they were shown to be in general agreement with the two sets of experimental responses.
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