scholarly journals EXPERIMENTAL INVESTIGATION OF THE CONVECTIVE HEAT TRANSFER IN A SPIRALLY COILED CORRUGATED TUBE WITH RADIANT HEATING

2017 ◽  
Vol 15 (3) ◽  
pp. 495 ◽  
Author(s):  
Milan Đorđević ◽  
Velimir Stefanović ◽  
Mića Vukić ◽  
Marko Mančić

The Archimedean spiral coil made of a transversely corrugated tube was exposed to radiant heating in order to represent a heat absorber of the parabolic dish solar concentrator. The main advantage of the considered innovative design solution is a coupling effect of the two passive methods for heat transfer enhancement - coiling of the flow channel and changes in surface roughness. The curvature ratio of the spiral coil varies from 0.029 to 0.234, while water and a mixture of propylene glycol and water are used as heat transfer fluids. The unique focus of this study is on specific boundary conditions since the heat flux upon the tube external surfaces varies not only in the circumferential direction, but in the axial direction as well. Instrumentation of the laboratory model of the heat absorber mounted in the radiation field includes measurement of inlet fluid flow rate, pressure drop, inlet and outlet fluid temperature and 35 type K thermocouples welded to the coil surface. A thermal analysis of the experimentally obtained data implies taking into consideration the externally applied radiation field, convective and radiative heat losses, conduction through the tube wall and convection to the internal fluid. The experimental results have shown significant enhancement of the heat transfer rate compared to spirally coiled smooth tubes, up to 240% in the turbulent flow regime.

2016 ◽  
Vol 20 (suppl. 5) ◽  
pp. 1215-1226
Author(s):  
Milan Djordjevic ◽  
Velimir Stefanovic ◽  
Mica Vukic ◽  
Marko Mancic

The objective of this study was to numerically investigate the heat transfer in spiral coil tube in the laminar, transitional, and turbulent flow regimes. The Archimedean spiral coil was exposed to radiant heating and should represent heat absorber of parabolic dish solar concentrator. Specific boundary conditions represent the uniqueness of this study, since the heat flux upon the tube external surfaces varies not only in the circumferential direction, but also in the axial direction. The curvature ratio of spiral coil varies from 0.029 at the flow inlet to 0.234 at the flow outlet, while the heat transfer fluid is water. The 3-D steady-state transport equations were solved using the Reynolds stress turbulence model. Results showed that secondary flows strongly affect the flow and that the heat transfer is strongly asymmetric, with higher values near the outer wall of spiral. Although overall turbulence levels were lower than in a straight pipe, heat transfer rates were larger due to the curvature-induced modifications of the mean flow and temperature fields.


2020 ◽  
Vol 92 (3) ◽  
pp. 30901
Author(s):  
Suvanjan Bhattacharyya ◽  
Debraj Sarkar ◽  
Ulavathi Shettar Mahabaleshwar ◽  
Manoj K. Soni ◽  
M. Mohanraj

The current study experimentally investigates the heat transfer augmentation on the novel axial corrugated heat exchanger tube in which the spring tape is introduced. Air (Pr = 0.707) is used as a working fluid. In order to augment the thermohydraulic performance, a corrugated tube with inserts is offered. The experimental study is further extended by varying the important parameters like spring ratio (y = 1.5, 2.0, 2.5) and Reynolds number (Re = 10 000–52 000). The angular pitch between the two neighboring corrugations and the angle of the corrugation is kept constant through the experiments at β = 1200 and α = 600 respectively, while two different corrugations heights (h) are analyzed. While increasing the corrugation height and decreasing the spring ratio, the impact of the swirling effect improves the thermal performance of the system. The maximum thermal performance is obtained when the corrugation height is h = 0.2 and spring ratio y = 1.5. Eventually, correlations for predicting friction factor (f) and Nusselt number (Nu) are developed.


Author(s):  
Tholudin Mat Lazim ◽  
Zaid Sattar Kareem ◽  
M. N. Mohd Jaafar ◽  
Shahrir Abdullah ◽  
Ammar F. Abdulwahid

1987 ◽  
Vol 109 (3) ◽  
pp. 599-605 ◽  
Author(s):  
An-Shik Yang ◽  
Ching-Chang Chieng

An anisotropic factor is carefully selected from eleven distributions and adopted to the k–ε two-equation model of turbulence to obtain detailed velocity and temperature fields for steady-state, fully developed turbulent flow through infinite triangular/square rod array. The present study covers the ranges of pitch-to-diameter ratio from 1.123 to 1.5, and Reynolds number from 2.4 × 104 to 106. Velocity and wall shear stress are calculated and compared to experimental data. Normalized fluid temperature, friction factor, and heat transfer coefficient are also computed. The correlations of friction factor and heat transfer coefficients for flow inside circular pipe and flow through finite rod arrays are compared with the results for flow through infinite rod arrays.


2019 ◽  
Vol 108 ◽  
pp. 01003
Author(s):  
Jan Taler ◽  
Piotr Dzierwa ◽  
Magdalena Jaremkiewicz ◽  
Dawid Taler ◽  
Karol Kaczmarski ◽  
...  

Thick-wall components of the thermal power unit limit maximum heating and cooling rates during start-up or shut-down of the unit. A method of monitoring the thermal stresses in thick-walled components of thermal power plants is presented. The time variations of the local heat transfer coefficient on the inner surface of the pressure component are determined based on the measurement of the wall temperature at one or six points respectively for one- and three-dimensional unsteady temperature fields in the component. The temperature sensors are located close to the internal surface of the component. A technique for measuring the fastchanging fluid temperature was developed. Thermal stresses in pressure components with complicated shapes can be computed using FEM (Finite Element Method) based on experimentally estimated fluid temperature and heat transfer coefficient


Author(s):  
C. P. Howard

The results are presented from a numerical finite-difference method of calculation for the transient behavior of porous media when subjected to a step change in fluid temperature considering the case where the longitudinal thermal heat conduction cannot be neglected. These results, given in tabular and graphical form, provide a useful means for evaluating the heat-transfer data obtained from the transient testing of compact heat-exchanger surfaces.


2012 ◽  
Vol 204-208 ◽  
pp. 4260-4263 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hai Qian Zhao ◽  
Zhong Hua Wang ◽  
Lan Shuang Zhang

Floor radiant heating system has many advantages, energy and space saving, for example. The radiant floor is the radiator of floor radiant heating system, and its thermal parameters influence surface temperature distribution and comfort. In this paper, mathematical model of heat exchange coil under floor was established, and boundary heat transfer conditions were given. Based on these, surface temperature of different covering layer was calculated. According to the results, using different covering layer, the floor surface temperature has a great difference. Using wooden floor as cover material, the floor surface temperature is more moderate and uniform.


1996 ◽  
Vol 118 (3) ◽  
pp. 592-597 ◽  
Author(s):  
T. S. Zhao ◽  
P. Cheng

An experimental and numerical study has been carried out for laminar forced convection in a long pipe heated by uniform heat flux and subjected to a reciprocating flow of air. Transient fluid temperature variations in the two mixing chambers connected to both ends of the heated section were measured. These measurements were used as the thermal boundary conditions for the numerical simulation of the hydrodynamically and thermally developing reciprocating flow in the heated pipe. The coupled governing equations for time-dependent convective heat transfer in the fluid flow and conduction in the wall of the heated tube were solved numerically. The numerical results for time-resolved centerline fuid temperature, cycle-averaged wall temperature, and the space-cycle averaged Nusselt number are shown to be in good agreement with the experimental data. Based on the experimental data, a correlation equation is obtained for the cycle-space averaged Nusselt number in terms of appropriate dimensionless parameters for a laminar reciprocating flow of air in a long pipe with constant heat flux.


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