A comparison of the effect of the electrohydrodynamic technique on the condensation heat transfer of HFC-134a inside smooth and micro-fin tubes

The results of the condensation heat transfer enhancement and pressure drop of HFC-134a by using the electrohydrodynamic (EHD) technique are presented. The test section is a horizontal tube-in-tube heat exchanger where the refrigerant flows in the inner tube and water flows in the annulus. The outer tube is a smooth copper tube havign outer diameter of 21.2 mm. Two types of inner tubes, smooth and micro-fin copper tubes, are tested. The outer diameter and length of both inner tubes is 9.52 mm and 2.5 m, respectively. A stainless steel cylindrical electrode of 1.47 mm in diameter is placed in the center of the tube. Experiments are conducted under conditions providing mass flux of 400 kg/m²s, saturated temperature of 40°C, heat flux of 20 kW/m² and applied voltage of 2.5 kV. The experimental results indicate that the EHD enhancements of the smooth tube are higher than those of the micro-fin tube over the range of average quality. The maximum heat transfer enhancements for smooth and micro-fin tubes are 1.1. times and 1.08 times, respectively. For a smooth tube, the pressure drop induced by EHD is considerably small. However, the application of EHD in a micro-fin tube can lead to 10% increase in the pressure drop.     

The effect of low Reynolds number flows on pitot tube measurements

An investigation on the low Reynolds number effect on hemispherical-tipped Pitot tube measurements was performed by measuring the center-line velocity during the laminar flow of a Newtonian fluid in a 25 mm (1 in.) diameter vertical recirculating pipe loop. The primary objective of the study was to reconsider the available low Reynolds number Pitot tube data in the literature with modern instrumentation.Using the results of this experimental study, a correlation that accurately predicts the low Reynolds number Pitot tube behavior has been developed. The correlation accounts for an additional viscous term in the relationship for the pressure coefficient (C_p) which is not accounted for in Bernoulli's Equation. The correlation is semi-empirical and accurately fits experimental data gathered in this study, as well as a significant body of experimental data available in the literature. The correlation, which is based on a Pitot tube Reynolds number calculated using the opening diameter (d), has been shown to be provide more accurate predictions of C_p for a wide range of opening diameter to outer diameter ratios (0.22≤d/D≤0.6) than available correlations based on outer diameter.The transition Pitot tube Reynolds number, below which Bernoulli's Equation is no longer appropriate, was predicted to be approximately 35, compared to a value of 79 obtained from fitting data collected by Barker. The correlation developed in this study provides smoother transitions at both ends of the low Reynolds range. At the low end (Re<10) it converges with a Stokes Law’ analogy, while at the critical transition (Re~35) it converges asymptotically with Bernoulli's Equation. The correlation also accurately predicts the behavior of the pressure coefficient with Reynolds numbers between these ranges.     

Performance of heat transfer and pressure drop in a spirally indented tube

In an effort to develop a heat transfer enhancement technique for low temperature applications such as utilization of LNG cold energy, an experiment was carried out to evaluate the heat transfer and the pressure drop performance for a spirally indented tube using ethylene-glycol and water solutions and pure water under horizontal single-phase conditions. The test tube diameter was 14.86 mm and the tube length was 5.38 m. Heat transfer coefficients and friction factors for both inner and outer surfaces of the test tube were calculated from measurements of temperatures, flowrates and pressure drops. Correlations of heat transfer coefficients in the spirally indented tube, which were applicable for laminar and turbulent regimes were proposed for inner, and outer surfaces. The correlations showed that heat transfer coefficients for the spirally indented tube were much higher than those for smooth tubes, increased by more than 8 times depending upon the Reynolds number. The correlations were compared with other correlations for various types of surface roughness. The effect of the Prandtl number on the heat transfer characteristics was discussed. The critical Reynolds number from the laminar flow to the turbulent flow inside the spirally indented tube was found to be around Re=1,000.     

Effects of gas flow on particulate deposition in EGR coolers

This paper presents the test approach to investigate the effects of gas flow rate on particulate deposition inside the exhaust gas recirculation (EGR) coolers. The tests were carried out on a diesel engine equipped with the EGR cooler that a given total gas flow rate passed through and that contained pluggable exchanger tubes to adjust the flow rate in the tubes. Test results show that under the given coolant temperature and EGR gas temperature, the lower flow rate in the exchanger tube is and the longer tubes are, the more particulate with D_p > 50 nm deposit in the cooler. With the given total gas flow rate passing through the cooler, the lower flow rate in the exchanger tube is and the longer tubes are, the larger deposit mass is inside the cooler. In the cases of longer tubes, the effects of gas flow rate on the deposit mass are depends on the effects of gas velocity on the particulate deposition, rather than the effects of flow rate on the particulate number passing through the heat exchanger tube per minute.

     

Experimental investigation of the reverse heat transfer of R134a flow through non-adiabatic coiled capillary tubes

This research represents an experimental investigation of the metastable flow and re-condensation phenomenon through non-adiabatic lateral helical capillary tubes and suction tube heat exchanger. The results show that mass flux ratio has a vital role: It affects metastable flow and also reverse heat transfer phenomenon through non-adiabatic helical capillary tube. Therefore, by increasing of the mass flux ratio, the rate of heat transfer between them decreases. In contrast to the strong rate condition of heat transfer between them, reverse heat transfer or re-condensation maybe happen. Moreover, experimental results show that for R134 flow with mass flux ratio more than 57.84, metastable flow exists in non-adiabatic capillary tube with 0.9144 mm inner diameter, 30 mm coil diameter, 6.18 m length, 4 mm inner diameter of compressor suction tube.

     

Heat transfer and friction factor enhancement in a square channel having integral inclined discrete ribs on two opposite walls

The influence of a gap provided in integral inclined ribs on heat transfer and friction factor enhancement is investigated. Experiments are conducted to obtain heat transfer and friction factor characteristics in a square channel with two opposite in-line ribbed walls for Reynolds numbers from 5000 to 40000. The test section of square channel composed of integral inclined ribs with a gap and has a length-tohydraulic diameter ratio (L/D _h ) of 20. The rib pitch-to-height ratio (p/e) is 10, the rib height-to-hydraulic diameter ratio (e/D _h ) is 0.060 and rib attack angle (α) varies in the range of 30⁰ to 90⁰ (4 steps). The relative gap position (d/W) and relative gap width (g/e) is varied in the range of 1/5–2/3 (5 steps) and 0.5–2.0 (4 steps), respectively. The enhancement in heat transfer and friction factor of this roughened duct was compared with smooth duct and duct roughened with continuous inclined ribs (with no gap) under similar flow condition. Presence of inclined ribs with a gap yields about 4-fold enhancements in Nusselt number and about 8-fold increase in the friction factor compared with smooth duct and about 1.3 times and 1.4 times higher than the case of continuous ribs (without gaps) for the entire range of parameters investigated. Ribs with relative gap width of 1.0 at relative gap position of 1/3 and attack angle of 60° provides maximum heat transfer and friction factor enhancement.     

螺旋折流板与弓型折流板强化管换热器的传热性能对比

以油-水换热为对象,比较了螺旋折流板与弓型折流板三维翅片管换热器的壳程传热与压降性能.试验结果表明,2台实验换热器的壳程努塞尔特常数和压降都随雷诺常数的增加而增加,但螺旋折流板三维翅片管换热器的努塞尔特常数随雷诺常数的变化更明显.在相同雷诺常数下,螺旋折流板换热器的努塞尔特常数是弓型折流板换热器的1.2～1.5倍,而压...     

集成管箱型管壳式换热器的设计分析

空调热泵系统中所用的CO2跨临界循环管壳式换热器，管侧流动的是CO2工质，换热管的内侧压力相对较高，高压大约为10MPa；壳侧流动的是水，基本是常压。采用高温高压换热器需要按照压力容器设计标准，会使整个换热器设备较为笨重，并会造成系统设备成本提高。针对CO2跨临界循环的特定要求，设计出了耐高压防泄漏的集成管箱型换热器，在确保安全性的同时，使系统结构紧凑，技术难度降低，从而使成本得到有效控制，可以促使CO2跨临界循环更快的走向实际应用。文中还对换热器管路的安全性进行了分析，并给出了准确度较高的可用关联式来计算CO2流体在气体冷却器和蒸发器管内的换热系数。     

几种换热管强化传热性能实验分析与比较

选择光管、螺纹管、波纹管换热器进行传热性能实验。实验结果表明波纹管换热器的总传热系数最大，其次是螺纹管，最小是光管；螺纹管的管内(热侧)压降最大，其次是波纹管，最小是光管；管外(冷侧)三种管型压降相差不大。最后确定波纹管为此次换热器改造的管型。     

Inelastic wrinkling and collapse of tubes under combined bending and internal pressure

The problem of inelastic bending and collapse of tubes in the presence of internal pressure is investigated using experiments and analyses. The experiments involve 1.5-inch diameter, D/t=52 stainless steel tubes bent to failure at fixed values of pressure. The moment-curvature response is governed by the inelastic characteristics of the material. Bending induces some ovalization to the tube cross section while, simultaneously, the internal pressure causes the circumference to grow. Following some inelastic deformation, small amplitude axial wrinkles appear on the compressed side of the tube, and their amplitude grows stably as bending progresses. Eventually, wrinkling localizes, causing catastrophic failure usually in the form of an outward bulge. Internal pressure stabilizes the structure, it increases the wavelength of the wrinkles and can increase significantly the curvature at collapse. The onset of wrinkling is established by a custom bifurcation buckling formulation. The evolution of wrinkling and its eventual localization are simulated successfully using a FE shell model. The material is represented as an anisotropic elastic-plastic solid using the flow theory, while the models are assigned initial geometric imperfections with the wavelength of the wrinkling bifurcation mode. It is demonstrated that successful prediction of collapse requires very accurate representation of the material inelastic properties including yield anisotropies, and that as expected, the collapse curvature is sensitive to the imperfection amplitude and wavelength imposed.     

椭圆管管壳式换热器壳程传热性能的试验研究

通过试验方法对椭圆管换热器与螺旋折流板换热器和传统的弓形折流板换热器进行了壳程传热性能和压降的研究,同时进行了壳程传热性能和压降的对比。从试验数据处理中得出,椭圆管换热器的传热系数虽然不高于采用圆管作为换热管的螺旋折流板换热器和弓形折流板换热器的传热系数,但其单位压降下的壳程传热系数却远远高于螺旋折流板换热器和弓形折流板换热器单位压降下的壳程传热系数。     

An experimental study of pressure drop correlations for wire-wrapped fuel assemblies

The main objective of the present study is to perform an experimental evaluation of five existing correlations for the subchannel pressure drop analysis of a wire-wrapped fuel assembly. For this purpose, a series of water experiments have been performed using a helical wire-wrapped 19-pin fuel assembly for various test parameters. For different test sections with different pitch to rod diameter ratios (P/D) and wire lead length to rod diameter ratios (H/D) have been fabricated. A series of pressure drop measurements were made to obtain friction factors for these four test sections. The new data along with existing data are used to evaluate existing correlations. Both the original and the simplified Cheng and Todreas correlations give the best agreement with experimental data for all flow regions.     

内置扭带换热管三维流动与传热数值模拟

对自转扭带换热管内流体的运动进行了分析,根据流体在自转扭带管内的切向运动特点,提出将自转扭带等效虚拟于静止扭带的思路。建立内置螺旋扭带换热管流体流动的三维物理模型,采用大型CFD软件FLUENT6.0中的RNG k-ε模型对内置扭带换热管内的流动与传热进行了数值模拟,得到了内置扭带换热管流体流动的速度、压力、湍流强度场分布规律及传热特性。比较了静止、旋转及旋转等效虚拟静止扭带换热管的传热和阻力降特性,分析了不同螺距对强化传热和阻力降的影响。速度场的模拟值与激光测速仪试验值进行了比较,二者吻合较好。     

扭曲管管内传热及流动特性数值模拟

扭曲管是应用于制冷行业中新型管壳式换热器的高效换热管,强化了管内传热,壳程不设折流板以降低壳程流阻。本文通过数值模拟研究了扭曲管管内传热及流动特性。通过建立不同规格的扭曲管物理模型,得出扭曲管的扭曲程度S/de越小、截面压扁程度Ai/Bi越大,扭曲管的强化传热性能就越好,但是同时流阻也会增大;反之则相反。     

Thermal performance of a spirally coiled finned tube heat exchanger under wet-Surface conditions

This paper is a continuation of the authors’ previous work on spiral coil heat exchangers. In the present study, the heat transfer characteristics and the performance of a spirally coiled finned tube heat exchanger under wet-surface conditions are theoretically and experimentally investigated. The test section is a spiral-coil heat exchanger which consists of a steel shell and a spirally coiled tube unit. The spiral-coil unit consists of six layers of concentric spirally coiled finned tubes. Each tube is fabricated by bending a 9.6 mm diameter straight copper tube into a spiral-coil of four turns. The innermost and outermost diameters of each spiral-coil are 145.0 and 350.4 mm, respectively. Aluminium crimped spiral fins with thickness of 0.6 mm and outer diameter of 28.4 mm are placed around the tube. The edge of fin at the inner diameter is corrugated. Air and water are used as working fluids in shell side and tube side, respectively. The experiments are done under dehumidifying conditions. A mathematical model based on the conservation of mass and energy is developed to simulate the flow and heat transfer characteristics of working fluids flowing through the heat exchanger. The results obtained from the present model show reasonable agreement with the experimental data.     

Plugging criteria for thinned high-pressure feedwater heater tubes considering pressure and thermal loading

When heat exchanger tubes have critical thinning which could cause unsafe conditions, it is general practice to plug the tubes so that they are out of service to prevent rupture failure at the thinnest location. Plugging criteria for the high-pressure feedwater heater tubes of fossil power plant were studied. Tubes in the desuperheating zone were considered due to their high internal pressure and the high temperature difference across the tube wall. Theoretical analysis of uniform thinning and eccentric thinning of the tube was conducted to determine the stress conditions at the thinnest location under internal/external pressure and thermal gradient across the tube. The minimum required tube thickness was determined using the maximum shear stress criterion (Tresca theory). Accuracy and effectiveness of the analytic solutions of the stresses were verified by comparing the results obtained with those obtained from finite element analysis. Using finite element analysis, the stresses for eccentric thinning were determined. Thermal loading due to temperature difference across the wall was considered even though the contribution of pressure loading to the stress of the tube was known to be higher than that of the thermal loading. As case studies, the tube plugging criteria of three high pressure feedwater heaters were determined using actual temperature and design pressure industry data. The procedure used in this study can be applied to different pressure and temperature operating conditions, and different tube materials.     

Experimental and Simulation Studies on Cold Welding Sealing Process of Heat Pipes

Sealing quality strongly affects heat pipe performance, but few studies focus on the process of heat pipe sealing. Cold welding sealing technology based on a stamping process is applied for heat pipe sealing. The bonding mechanism of the cold welding sealing process (CWSP) is investigated and compared with the experimental results obtained from the bonding interface analysis. An orthogonal experiment is conducted to observe the effects of various parameters, including the sealing gap, sealing length, sealing diameter, and sealing velocity on bonding strength. A method with the utilization of saturated vapor pressure inside a copper tube is proposed to evaluate bonding strength. A corresponding finite element model is developed to investigate the effects of sealing gap and sealing velocity on plastic deformation during the cold welding process. Effects of various parameters on the bonding strength are determined and it is found that the sealing gap is the most critical factor and that the sealing velocity contributes the least effect. The best parameter combination (A ₁ B ₃ C ₁ D ₃, with a 0.5 mm sealing gap, 6 mm sealing length, 3.8 mm sealing diameter, and 50 mm/s sealing velocity) is derived within the experimental parameters. Plastic deformation results derived from the finite element model are consistent with those from the experiment. The instruction for the CWSP of heat pipes and the design of sealing dies of heat pipes are provided.     

Evaporation heat transfer and pressure drop characteristics of r-134a in the oblong shell and plate heat exchanger

The evaporation heat transfer coefficienthr and frictional pressure drop δp_f of refrigerant R-134a flowing in the oblong shell and plate heat exchanger were investigated experimentally in this study. Four vertical counterflow channels were formed in the oblong shell and plate heat exchanger by four plates of geometry with a corrugated sinusoid shape of a 45° chevron angle. Upflow of refrigerant R-134a boils in two channels receiving heat from downflow of hot water in other channels. The effects of the refrigerant mass flux, average heat flux, refrigerant saturation temperature and vapor quality of R- 134a were explored in detail. Similar to the case of a plate heat exchanger, even at a very low Reynolds number, the flow in the oblong shell and plate heat exchanger remains turbulent. The results indicate that the evaporation heat transfer coefficienthr and pressure drop Δp_f increase with the vapor quality. A rise in the refrigerant mass flux causes an increase in theh _r and Δp_f. But the effect of the average heat flux does not show significant effect on the h_r and Δp_f. Finally, at a higher saturation temperature, both theh _r and Δp_f are found to be lower. The empirical correlations are also provided for the measured heat transfer coefficient and pressure drop in terms of the Nusselt number and friction factor.     

Experimental study on heat transfer characteristics of water-spray-bed heat exchanger

An experimental study was conducted on a water-spray-bed heat exchanger to investigate the heat transfer characteristics. A laboratory-scale test rig was built and its heat transfer characteristics were investigated with respect to various design and operation parameters such as the water spray flow rate, exhaust gas flow rate and number of tube rows. It was found that the implementation of the water spray increased the heat transfer rate to about 1.3 - 2.2 times that of a heat exchanger without water spray, although with a slight increase in the pressure loss. It was thus confirmed that the water spray was effective for enhancing condensing heat recovery from an exhaust gas.

     

Theoretical and numerical analyses of a ceramic monolith heat exchanger

This study assessed the performance of a ceramic monolith heat exchanger, estimating heat transfer and pressure drop by numerical computation and the ε-NTU method. A heat exchanger consists of rectangular ducts for exhaust gas, a ceramic core, and rectangular ducts for air and exhaust gases, as well as air in the cross-flow direction. The numerical computations were performed for the whole domain, including the exhaust gas, ceramic core, and air. In addition, the heat exchanger was examined using a conventional ε-NTU method with several Nusselt number correlations from the literature to characterize the flow in the rectangular duct. The results of these numerical computation analyses demonstrated that the effectiveness of the heat exchanger, as demonstrated using the ε-NTU method with Stephan’s Nusselt number correlation, came closest to the results of computation with a relative error of 2%. The air-side pressure drops indicated by the results of numerical computation were 13–22% higher than those calculated using the head loss equation with the inclusion of a friction factor that was obtained from previous experiments examining heat transfer conditions.