What is the Best Solution to Improve Thermal Performance of Storage Tanks With Immersed Heat Exchangers: Baffles or a Divided Tank?

2009 ◽  
Vol 131 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Aaron D. Wade ◽  
Jane H. Davidson ◽  
Julia F. Haltiwanger
Keyword(s):  
Heat Exchanger ◽  
Thermal Performance ◽  
Heat Exchangers ◽  
Thermal Stratification ◽  
Water Storage ◽  
Energy Extraction ◽  
Storage Tanks ◽  
Stored Energy ◽  
Tubular Heat Exchanger ◽  
Potential Methods

Prior studies of indirect water storage tanks that employ an immersed heat exchanger to discharge the stored energy identified two potential methods of improving the rate of energy extraction: (1) an internal baffle to increase the velocity across the heat exchanger and (2) a divided storage compartment to achieve thermal stratification. The relative benefits of the two options are compared and recommendations for implementation are provided based in part on measurements in a 350 l tank with a 10 m long, 0.3 m2 coiled tubular heat exchanger.

What is the Best Solution to Improve Thermal Performance of Storage Tanks With Immersed Heat Exchangers: Baffles or a Divided Tank?

2008 ◽  
Author(s):  
Aaron D. Wade ◽  
Jane H. Davidson ◽  
Julia F. Haltiwanger
Keyword(s):  
Heat Exchanger ◽  
Thermal Performance ◽  
Heat Exchangers ◽  
Thermal Stratification ◽  
Storage Tanks ◽  
Stored Energy ◽  
Tubular Heat Exchanger ◽  
Energy Delivery ◽  
Potential Methods

Prior studies of indirect water storage tanks that employ an immersed heat exchanger to discharge the stored energy have identified two potential methods of improving the rate of energy extraction: 1) an internal baffle to increase the velocity across the heat exchanger, and 2) a divided storage compartment to achieve thermal stratification. Thermal performance of these two options is compared to that of a conventional cylindrical tank during transient discharge. Each tank has a storage volume of 350 liters and a 10 m long, 0.3 m2 coiled tubular heat exchanger. For the specific configurations evaluated, the baffled heat exchanger provides the highest energy delivery rates and heat exchanger outlet temperatures. An analytic model shows the advantage of the divided storage depends on the NTU of the immersed heat exchanger. The heat exchanger employed in the present study is too small to realize the potential benefit of a divided storage. Both options, if used in the appropriate system, can improve thermal performance as measured by the rate and quality of delivered energy. The baffle is most appropriate when storage-side natural convection is the largest thermal resistance of the heat exchanger. The divided tank is useful when the NTU of the heat exchanger exceeds three.

Numerical modeling and optimization of thermal stratification in solar hot water storage tanks for domestic applications: CFD study

Solar Energy ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 157 ◽  
pp. 441-455 ◽  
Author(s):  
T. Bouhal ◽  
S. Fertahi ◽  
Y. Agrouaz ◽  
T. El Rhafiki ◽  
T. Kousksou ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Numerical Modeling ◽  
Thermal Stratification ◽  
Water Storage ◽  
Hot Water ◽  
Storage Tanks ◽  
Modeling And Optimization

scholarly journals Execution of a Smart Prediction Tool to Evaluate Thermal Performance in a heat exchanger by using Single Elliptical Leaf Strips with altered Angle

2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (11) ◽  
pp. 123-131
Keyword(s):  
Heat Transfer ◽  
Heat Exchanger ◽  
Thermal Performance ◽  
Heat Exchangers ◽  
Industrial Applications ◽  
Generalized Regression Neural Network ◽  
Prediction Tool ◽  
Pressure Drops ◽  
Transfer Rates ◽  
Mass Flow Rates

Heat exchangers are prominent industrial applications where engineering science of heat transfer and Mass transfer occurs. It is a contrivance where transfer of energy occurs to get output in the form of energy transfer. This paper aims at finding a solution to improve the thermal performance in a heat exchanger by using passive method techniques. This experimental and numerical analysis deals with finding the temperature outlets of cold and hot fluid for different mass flow rates and also pressure drop in the tube and the annular side by adding an elliptical leaf strip in the pipe at various angles. The single elliptical leaf used in experiment has major to minor axes ratios as 2:1 and distance of 50 mm between two leaves are arranged at different angular orientations from 0 0 to 1800 with 100 intervals. Since it’s not possible to find the heat transfer rates and pressure drops at every orientation of elliptical leaf so a generalized regression neural network (GRNN) prediction tool is used to get outputs with given inputs to avoid experimentation. GRNN is a statistical method of determining the relationship between dependent and independent variables. The values obtained from experimentation and GRNN nearly had precise values to each other. This analysis is a small step in regard with encomiastic approach for enhancement in performance of heat exchangers

scholarly journals Thermal performance in a tubular heat exchanger with deltawinglets

2018 ◽  
Vol 192 ◽  
pp. 02062
Author(s):  
Pattarapan Tongyote ◽  
Pongjet Promvonge ◽  
Nattawoot Depaiwa ◽  
Withada Jedsadaratanachai
Keyword(s):  
Heat Transfer ◽  
Heat Exchanger ◽  
Thermal Performance ◽  
Thermal Characteristics ◽  
Test Tube ◽  
Turbulent Regime ◽  
Airflow Rate ◽  
Tubular Heat Exchanger ◽  
Experimental Heat ◽  
Constant Wall Heat Flux

The paper presents an experimental heat transfer enhancement study in a tubular heat exchanger fitted with delta-winglets. The experimental work was conducted by varying the airflow rate in the test tube having a constant wall heat-flux for turbulent regime, Reynolds number (Re) from 5200 to 23,000. Effects of three pitch ratios (PR=P/D=1.5, 2.0 and 3.0) and two attack angles, α = 45° and 60°, of the winglets at a single blockage ratio (BR=b/D = 0.15) on thermal characteristics are examined. The experimental results show that the winglet-inserted tube yields, respectively, the heat transfer, friction factor and thermal performance in the form of TEF around 1.99–4.08, 4.9–14.3 times higher than the plain tube and 0.85–1.85, depending on the operating condition.

Failure Analysis of Heat Exchangers

2021 ◽  
pp. 3-19
Author(s):  
Dusan P. Sekulic
Keyword(s):  
Heat Transfer ◽  
Heat Exchanger ◽  
Failure Analysis ◽  
Thermal Energy ◽  
Solid Surface ◽  
Heat Exchangers ◽  
Heat Transfer Surface ◽  
Tubular Heat Exchanger ◽  
Erosion Corrosion ◽  
Different Temperatures

Abstract Heat exchangers are devices used to transfer thermal energy between two or more fluids, between a solid surface and a fluid, or between a solid particulate and a fluid at different temperatures. This article first addresses the causes of failures in heat exchangers. It then provides a description of heat-transfer surface area, discussing the design of the tubular heat exchanger. Next, the article discusses the processes involved in the examination of failed parts. Finally, it describes the most important types of corrosion, including uniform, galvanic, pitting, stress, and erosion corrosion.

Design and Analysis of Micro Plastic Heat Exchanger

2012 ◽  
Vol 562-564 ◽  
pp. 1776-1779
Author(s):  
Yue Han ◽  
Heng Zhi Cai ◽  
Ya Jun Zhang ◽  
Da Ming Wu ◽  
Xin Liang Wang
Keyword(s):  
Heat Exchanger ◽  
Thermal Performance ◽  
Heat Exchangers ◽  
Chemical Engineering ◽  
Mechanical Systems ◽  
Experimental Results ◽  
Micro Electro Mechanical Systems ◽  
Micro Heat Exchanger ◽  
Simulation And Experiment ◽  
Energy Engineering

The heat exchanger is widely used in energy engineering, chemical engineering etc. And with development of the MEMS (Micro Electro Mechanical Systems), many researchers are interested in the micro heat exchanger. In this paper, the micro plastic heat exchangers are manufactured by modified PPS. A heat exchanger with polypropylene (PP) is also made for comparison. Simulation and experiment are carried out to determine the thermal performance of the micro plastic heat exchangers. The experimental results are compared with that of simulation. The results show the performance of the micro plastic heat exchanger is very close to that of metal heat exchanger with the same dimension.

Performance Analysis of Multi-Pass Cross-Flow Heat Exchangers

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kiran Lankalapalli ◽  
Ahmed ElSawy ◽  
Stephen Idem
Keyword(s):  
Heat Exchanger ◽  
Performance Analysis ◽  
Thermal Performance ◽  
Heat Exchangers ◽  
Cross Flow ◽  
Threshold Value ◽  
Finned Tube ◽  
Flow Heat ◽  
Rate Ratios ◽  
Side Flow

A steady state sensible performance analysis of multi-pass cross-flow finned-tube heat exchangers is reported. The investigation considers various flow circuiting, such as counter cross-flow, parallel cross-flow, and cross-flow where the tube-side flow is in parallel. A previously developed matrix approach is used to evaluate the heat exchanger performance in each tube pass. The equations required to model the thermal performance of these configurations are presented, and the thermal performance is compared for each type of flow circuiting. Thereafter a parametric study on cross-flow heat exchanger performance is performed by varying physically significant parameters such as number of transfer units (NTU) and capacity rate ratios, and the graphical results for each type of flow circuiting are presented both for both two-pass and three-pass arrangements. A consistent criterion is proposed for each case, wherein increasing the NTU beyond a certain threshold value does not significantly improve heat exchanger thermal performance.

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