Average Boiling and Condensation Heat Transfer Coefficients of the Zeotropic Refrigerant Mixture R22/R142b in a Coaxial Tube-in-Tube Heat Exchanger

1999 ◽  
Vol 122 (1) ◽  
pp. 186-188 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. P. Meyer ◽  
J. M. Bukasa ◽  
S. A. Kebonte

Average boiling and condensation heat transfer coefficients were determined experimentally for a coaxial tube-in-tube heat exchanger used in hot water heat pumps. During manufacturing, the heat exchanger geometry used for the experiments changed from round tubes to elliptical tubes as no spacers were used to keep the inner tube from touching the outer tube. The refrigerant used was two different mixtures of R22 with R142b in mass ratios of 80 percent/20 percent and 60 percent/40 percent. The results were compared to theoretical results for straight tubes. It was concluded that the theoretical modes do not predict the heat transfer coefficients very well in coaxial tube-in-tube heat exchangers where the annulus touches the inside of the outer tube. [S0022-1481(00)01001-X]

2021 ◽  
Vol 1021 ◽  
pp. 160-170
Author(s):  
Amer Hameed Majeed ◽  
Yasmin Hamed Abd

The effect of adding nanomaterial of aluminum oxide (Al2O3), titanium oxide (TiO2) and zirconium oxide (ZrO2) in different concentrations of 0.25, 0.5, 0.75, 1.0, and 1.25 g/L to the cold fluid (water) turbulently flowing with different flow rates of 75, 100, 125, 150, and 175 L/min in tube side countercurrently to hot water flowing with a constant flow rate of 60 L/min in the shell side of shell and tube heat exchanger on the heat transfer rates and overall heat transfer coefficients are experimentally studied. It is found that the addition of nanomaterials gives rise to outlet cold (nano) fluids temperatures causing to enhancement averagely 7.74, 11.25, and 17.38 percent for ZrO2, TiO2, and Al2O3 respectively in heat transfer rate and averagely 12.72, 19.47, and 28.71 percent for ZrO2, TiO2, and Al2O3 respectively in overall heat transfer coefficients. The maximum enhancement values in heat transfer rates and in overall heat transfer coefficients are attained at a flow rate of 150 L/min of cold fluid.


2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (4B) ◽  
Author(s):  
Devanand D. Chillal ◽  
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Uday C. Kapale ◽  
N.R. Banapurmath ◽  
T. M. Yunus Khan ◽  
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The work presented is an effort to realize the changes occurring for convective coefficients of heat transfer in STHX fitted with inclined baffles. Effort has been undertaken using Fluent, a commercially available CFD code ona CAD model of small STHX with inclined baffles with cold liquid flowing into the tubes and hot liquid flowing in the shell. Four sets of CFD analysis have been carried out. The hot liquid flow rate through shell compartments varied from 0.2 kg/sec to 0.8 kg/sec in steps of 0.2 kg/sec, while keeping the cold liquid flow condition in tube at 0.4 kg/sec constant. Heat transfer rates, compartment temperatures, and overall heat transfer coefficients, for cold liquid and hot liquid, were studied. The results given by the software using CFD approach were appreciable and comparatively in agreement with the results available by the experimental work, which was undertaken for the same set of inlet pressure conditions, liquid flow rates, and inlet temperatures of liquid for both hot and cold liquids. The experimental output results were also used to validate the results given by the CFD software. The results from the CFD analysis were further used to conclude the effect of baffle inclination on heat duty. The process thus followed also helped realize the effects of baffle inclination on convective heat transfer coefficient of the liquid flow through the shell in an inclined baffle shell and tube heat exchanger. The temperature plots for both cold and hot liquid were also generated for understanding the compartmental temperature distributions inclusive of the inlet and outlet compartments. The heat duty for a heat exchanger has been found to increase with the increase in baffle inclinations from zero degree to 20 degrees. Likewise, the convective heat transfer coefficients have also been found to increase with the increase in baffle inclinations.


Author(s):  
Sunil Mehendale

In HVACR equipment, internally enhanced round tube (microfin) designs such as axial, cross-grooved, helical, and herringbone are commonly used to enhance the boiling and condensing performance of evaporators, condensers, and heat pumps. Typically, such tubes are mechanically expanded by a mandrel into a fin pack to create an interference fit between the tube outside surface and the fin collar to minimize the thermal contact resistance between tube and fin. However, during this expansion process, the internal enhancements undergo varying amounts of deformation, which degrades the in-tube thermal performance. Extensive data on condensing heat transfer coefficients in microfin tubes have been reported in the open literature. However, researchers have seldom used expanded tubes to acquire and report such data. Hence, it is always questionable to use such pristine tube data for designing heat exchangers and HVACR systems. Furthermore, the HVACR industry has been experiencing steeply rising copper costs, and this trend is expected to continue in coming years. So, many equipment manufacturers and suppliers are actively converting tubes from copper to aluminum. However, because of appreciable differences between the material properties of aluminum and copper, as well as other manufacturing variables, such as mandrel dimensions, lubricant used, etc., tube expansion typically deforms aluminum fins more than copper fins. Based on an analysis of the surface area changes arising from tube expansion, and an assessment of the best extant in-tube condensation heat transfer correlations, this work proposes a method of estimating the impact of tube expansion on in-tube condensation heat transfer. The analysis leads to certain interesting and useful findings correlating fin geometry and in-tube condensation thermal resistance. This method can then be applied to more realistically design HVACR heat exchangers and systems.


2014 ◽  
Vol 925 ◽  
pp. 625-629 ◽  
Author(s):  
C.S. Oon ◽  
A. Badarudin ◽  
S.N. Kazi ◽  
M. Fadhli

The heat transfer in annular heat exchanger with titanium oxide of 1.0 volume % concentration as the medium of heat exchanger is considered in this study. The heat transfer simulation of the flow is performed by using Computational Fluid Dynamics package, Ansys Fluent. The heat transfer coefficients of water to titanium oxide nanofluid flowing in a horizontal counter-flow heat exchanger under turbulent flow conditions are investigated. The results show that the convective heat transfer coefficient of the nanofluid is slightly higher than that of the base fluid by several percents. The heat transfer coefficient increases with the increase of the mass flow rate of hot water and also the nanofluid.


1984 ◽  
Vol 106 (4) ◽  
pp. 735-742 ◽  
Author(s):  
Y. Yamada ◽  
M. Akai ◽  
Y. Mori

The heat transfer performance of a crossflow shell-and-tube heat exchanger for high-temperature use in which heat transfer is augmented by the use of wall radiation in both shell and tube sides, is studied. Radiation plates are inserted in the shell side, and twisted cross-tapes in the tube side. Overall heat transfer coefficients are measured to be about a maximum 80 percent larger than those without radiation, where the inlet temperatures of the hot gas range up to 800 °C, while those of the cold gas are about room temperature. Analytical results agree well with experimental results, and an approximate calculation procedure is found to be simple and accurate enough for practical use.


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