Simulation Studies of Heat Transfer Enhancement in a Double Pipe Heat Exchanger Fitted with Plain Tape Insert

Abstract

Heat exchangers are important devices that are commonly used in various industries such as processes, petroleum refining, chemicals, oil industries, power plants, and paper, etc. The demand for high efficiency heat exchangers has been driven by energy and material saving requirements as well as environmental challenges in the industry. In order to improve the heat exchanger performance, an increase in the heat transfer in heat exchangers is required.In addition, heat transfer improvement makes it possible to greatly reduce the size of the heat exchanger. For a compact heat exchanger, a high heat transfer rate with minimum space requirement is required. The counter flow heat exchanger increases the heat transfer feature of the plain tube with plain tape insert in the inner tube. To predict the Nusselt number, Reynolds number & Thermal enhancement factor based on the numerical calculation with help of ANSYS software.

Cite as
A.P.Sivasubramaniam, K.Mayilsamy, & P.Murugesan. (2020). Simulation Studies of Heat Transfer Enhancement in a Double Pipe Heat Exchanger Fitted with Plain Tape Insert. Research and Applications of Thermal Engineering, 3(2), 1–8. http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4043035