Inner Tube Of Heat Exchanger Research Articles

Parametric optimization and analysis of thermodynamic venting system in liquid hydrogen tank under microgravity

This paper used the lumped vapor model to simulate the self-pressurization and thermodynamic venting process in the cryogenic liquid hydrogen tank with 90% filling rate under microgravity. Based on the orthogonal experiment, twenty-five cases with different parameters were designed. Daily evaporation rate and cooling capacity utilization efficiency were proposed to evaluate the exhaust loss during the jet process and depressurization efficiency during depressurization process. The four parameters of spray bar including exhaust rate, diameter of inner tube of heat exchanger, nozzle length and number of nozzles were optimized and the weight of influence on the daily evaporation rate and cooling capacity utilization efficiency was analyzed. Results showed that nozzle length and number of nozzles played a key role in the daily evaporation rate and cooling capacity utilization efficiency, while diameter of inner tube of heat exchanger had little effect. Under the same mass flow, smaller nozzle length, lower exhaust rate and fewer nozzles could increase the inlet velocity, thereby reducing the daily evaporation rate and improving the cooling capacity utilization efficiency. The thermal stratification could be eliminated well. In addition, arranging two nozzles up and down was more advantageous than arranging a single nozzle in the middle. The research results were useful for improving the efficiency of the thermodynamic venting system (TVS) and extending the propellant storage time in orbit.

Modelling and Parametric Analysis of Wire Finned Coiled Tube Heat Exchanger in a Small J-T Refrigerator

In the present study, numerical analysis of coiled tube heat exchanger used in J-T refrigerator is carried out. A computer code is developed to estimate the length of the heat exchanger by giving mass flow rate, diameter of tube and shell as input parameters. This code is verified against experimental data. Two different configurations are considered in this study viz., heat exchanger with wire fin wound around the inner tube of heat exchanger and without wirefin. Three different refrigerant mixtures are used to evaluate the performance of heat exchangers. The variations of temperature and heat transfer coefficient are brought out as result. Significant reduction in the length of heat exchanger is observed in all the cases. Mixture-1 causes 33% reduction in length of heat exchanger with wirefin. Similarly, for mixture-2 and mixture-3 the length is reduced by 15% and 30%. Additionally, heat transfer coefficient (HTC) values are also estimated for heat exchanger with wirefin and without wirefin. Considerable increase in HTC values is observed in the heat exchanger with wirefin.

Second law efficiency analysis of air injection into inner tube of double tube heat exchanger

At present study, thermal performance of a double tube heat exchanger due to stream of air/water two phase flow through inner tube is experimentally studied. Air and hot water were mixed in a T-junction outside heat exchanger and then were followed into inner tube of heat exchanger. Told water flow rate was kept constant and was equal to 2 lit/min. For hot water flow rate, four different flow rates of 3, 4, 5 and 6 lit/min was considered. Also inlet temperature of cold and hot water streams were almost constant and were within range of 17–19 °C and 48–50 °C. Also, for air flow rate five different flow rates of 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5 lit/min were considered. Volume fraction was within the range of 0.14 and 0.62. Obtained results were analyzed based on several energetic and exergitic parameters including pressure drop, effectiveness, Number of Transfer Units, heat transfer coefficient, dimensionless exergy loss and Witte-Shamsundar efficiency factor. Results presented an increment of 33% and 38% in heat transfer coefficient and Number of Transfer Units, respectively. Maximum value of Witte-Shamsundar efficiency factor was found to be 0.973 and was related to Volume fraction of 0.57 and has occurred at counter flow.

THERMAL CHARACTERISTICS OF PHASE CHANGE MATERIAL USED AS THERMAL STORAGE SYSTEM BY USING SOLAR ENERGY

In this paper, the melting processes of phase change material in a shell and tube heat exchanger by using solar thermal energy have been investigated numerically and experimentally. All experimental were outdoor tested at AL-Mussaib city-Babylon-Iraq (Lat 32.5 º North, and long 44.3 º East) with N-S collector direction at tilt angle of 32.5 º with the horizontal. The phase change material used in this work is black color Iraqi origin pure Paraffin with amount of 12 kg. In the experimental setup evacuted tube solar collector is employed for melting phase change material in shell regime. Different volume flow rates for the water flow inside the inner tube of heat exchanger namely (200, 300, and 500 LPH) for Reynolds number namely (15000, 23000, 38000) respectively were used for each season from August 2016 to January 2017. The numerical investigation involves a three dimension numerical solution of model by a commercial package ANSYS FLUENT 15.0. The boundary conditions of the model that solved by the numerical solution have been taken from the experimental tests. The experimental results indicated that the inner tube inlet and ambient temperatures has a significant effects on the melting process compared with the volume flow rates. Studying phase change material temperature distribution, it is exposed that a melting temperature of the phase change material in summer season needed time of (3-4) hours only, while it needed more time; (14-16) hours in winter season. Increasing solar radiation and ambient temperature reduces the melting time of phase change material. Increasing water temperature difference of inner tube increased the heat gained for phase change material. The results obtained from numerical solution presented the static temperature contours and showed that the temperature distribution of phase change material give good validations with experimental results with percentage deviation of 2.7%. The present experimental results have been compared with the previous studies and give a good agreement with increasing for present work of 25.9 %.

Heat transfer, friction factor and effectiveness analysis of Fe3O4/water nanofluid flow in a double pipe heat exchanger with return bend

The convective heat transfer, friction factor and effectiveness of different volume concentrations of Fe3O4 nanofluid flow in an inner tube of double pipe heat exchanger with return bend has been estimated experimentally and turbulent flow conditions. The test section used in this study is of double pipe type in which the inner tube diameter is 0.019m, the annulus tube diameter is 0.05m and the total length of inner tube is 5m. At a distance of 2.2m from the inlet of the inner tube the return bend is provided. The hot Fe3O4 nanofluid flows through an inner tube, where as the cold water flows through an annulus tube. The volume concentrations of the nanoparticles used in this study are 0.005%, 0.01%, 0.03% and 0.06% with Reynolds number range from 15,000 to 30,000. Based on the results, the Nusselt number enhancement is 14.7% for 0.06% volume concentration of nanofluid flow in an inner tube of heat exchanger at a Reynolds number of 30,000 when compared to base fluid data; the pumping penalty of nanofluid is <10%. The effectiveness of heat exchanger for water and nanofluid flow is explained in terms of number of transfer units (NTU) in order to estimate the overall performance of the double pipe heat exchanger. New correlations for Nusselt number and friction factor have been developed based on the experimental data.

Effectiveness-NTU analyses in a double tube heat exchanger equipped with wavy strip considering various angles

In the present study, effectiveness-NTU analyses in a double tube heat exchanger equipped with wavy strip considering various angles were experimentally studied. Moreover, variation of the effectiveness with hot water Reynolds numbers for different cold water flow rates were presented. These turbulators with different angles of 45°, 60°, 90°, 120° and 150° were made of galvanized plates with thickness of 1mm and were installed in the inner tube of heat exchanger. The experiments were carried out at Reynolds numbers of 3000–13,500 at turbulent flow regime. Throughout the experiments, hot and cold water flowed through the inner pipe and the space between the pipes (annulus), respectively. It was tried to keep the inlet hot and cold water temperatures at constant values. Effectiveness-NTU analyses were made for the conditions with and without wavy strips including their different angles and compared to each other. Results showed the considerable effect of turbulators on effectiveness (ε) and number of heat transfer units (NTU) of double tube heat exchanger. In addition, some empirical correlations expressing the results were also developed based on curve fitting.

Experimental Analysis on Heat Transfer Enhancement of Double Pipe Heat Exchanger Using Alumina/Water Nanofluid and Baffled Twisted Tape Inserts

Heat transfer augmentation techniques ultimately results in the reduction of thermal resistance in a conventional heat exchanger by generating higher convective heat transfer coefficient. Present study with the use of Alumina (Al2O3)/water nanofluid and baffled twisted tape inserts in double pipe heat exchanger as compound augmentation technique. Experiments were conducted to evaluate the heat transfer coefficient and friction factor for the flow through the inner tube of heat exchanger in turbulent flow range (8000&lt;Re&lt;60000). The effect of rectangular, circular, triangular baffled twisted tape having twist ratio (y/w) 4.2 and twisted tapes without baffles of twist ratio (y/w) 4.2 and 5.2 were studied. Experiments were conducted for both water and 0.1% volume concentration Alumina/water nanofluid. It is found that the enhancement of heat transfer coefficient by using rectangular baffled twisted tape and nanofluid is about 20%. Performance evaluation criteria were found for water and nanofluid and it was observed that rectangular baffled twisted tape performs better than other twisted tapes.