Initial situation:

• Poor convective heat transfer in through-passages of ceramic honeycomb bodies.
• Size heat transfer area.
• Size of the regenerators too high, space requirement at the furnace too large.

Working topics:

• Characterization of the heat transfer behavior of ceramic honeycomb bodies flowed through.
• Development and testing of new honeycomb body arrangements and geometries.

Results:

• Improvement of the heat transfer behavior of ceramic honeycomb bodies.
• Compact design of regenerators.
• Development of a design program for regenerators with ceramic honeycomb bodies.