Effectiveness of a Spiral-Plate Heat Exchanger With Equal Capacitance Rates

2005 ◽  
Vol 128 (3) ◽  
pp. 295-301 ◽  
Author(s):  
Louis C. Burmeister
Keyword(s):  
Heat Exchanger ◽  
Plate Heat Exchanger ◽  
Linear Functions ◽  
Transfer Coefficients ◽  
Archimedean Spiral ◽  
Plate Heat ◽  
Outer Periphery ◽  
Maximum Angle ◽  
The Difference ◽  
Spiral Plate

Abstract A formula is derived for the dependence of heat exchanger effectiveness on the number of transfer units for a spiral-plate heat exchanger with equal capacitance rates. The difference-differential equations that describe the temperature distributions of the two counter-flowing fluids, neglecting the effects of thermal radiation, are solved symbolically to close approximation. Provision is made for the offset inlet and exit of the hot and cold fluids at the outer periphery and for large heat transfer coefficients in the entrance regions. The peak effectiveness and the number of transfer units at which it occurs are linear functions of the maximum angle of the Archimedean spiral that describes the ducts; entrance region effects reduce both.

Spiral-Plate Heat Exchanger Effectiveness With Equal Capacitance Rates

2005 ◽  
Author(s):  
Louis C. Burmeister
Keyword(s):  
Heat Exchanger ◽  
Plate Heat Exchanger ◽  
Close Approximation ◽  
Transfer Coefficients ◽  
Plate Heat ◽  
Heat Transfer Coefficients ◽  
Outer Periphery ◽  
Large Heat ◽  
The Difference ◽  
Spiral Plate

A formula is derived for the dependence of heat exchanger effectiveness on the number of transfer units for a spiral-plate heat exchanger with equal capacitance rates. The difference-differential equations that describe the temperature distributions of the two counter-flowing fluids, neglecting thermal radiation, are solved symbolically to close approximation. Provision is made for offset inlet and exit of the hot and cold fluids at the outer periphery and for large heat transfer coefficients in entrance regions. The peak effectiveness and the number of transfer units at which it occurs are predicted.

A Continuous Heat Regenerative Adsorption Refrigerator Using Spiral Plate Heat Exchanger as Adsorbers: Improvements

1999 ◽  
Vol 121 (1) ◽  
pp. 14-19 ◽  
Author(s):  
R. Z. Wang ◽  
J. Y. Wu ◽  
Y. X. Xu
Keyword(s):  
Activated Carbon ◽  
Heat Exchanger ◽  
Heat Exchangers ◽  
Plate Heat Exchanger ◽  
Cooling Power ◽  
Thermal Cycles ◽  
Plate Heat ◽  
Spiral Plate ◽  
Continuous Heat

Spiral plate heat exchangers as adsorbers have been proposed, and a prototype heat regenerative adsorption refrigerator using activated carbon-methanol pair has been developed and tested. Various improvements have been made, at last we get a specific cooling power for 2.6 kg-ice/day-kg adsorbent at the condition of generation temperature lower than 100°C. Discussions on the arrangements of thermal cycles and influences of design are shown.

scholarly journals Mean heat transfer coefficients during the evaporation of 1,1,1,2-tetrafluoroethane (R-134a) in a plate heat exchanger

2007 ◽  
Vol 72 (8-9) ◽  
pp. 833-846 ◽  
Author(s):  
Emila Djordjevic ◽  
Stephan Kabelac ◽  
Slobodan Serbanovic
Keyword(s):  
Heat Transfer ◽  
Heat Transfer Coefficient ◽  
Heat Exchanger ◽  
Transfer Coefficient ◽  
Plate Heat Exchanger ◽  
Transfer Coefficients ◽  
Plate Heat ◽  
Evaporation Heat ◽  
The Mean ◽  
R 134A

In this study the transfer coefficient of evaporation heat of the refrigerant 1,1,1,2-tetrafluoroethane (R-134a) in a vertical plate heat exchanger was experimentally investigated. The results are presented as the dependancy of the mean heat transfer coefficient for the whole heat exchanger on the mean vapor quality. The influences of mass flux, heat flux and flow configuration on the heat transfer coefficient were also taken into account and a comparison with previously published experimental data and literature correlations was made. .

scholarly journals Experimental and numerical studies of a spiral plate heat exchanger

2014 ◽  
Vol 18 (4) ◽  
pp. 1355-1360 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rajavel Rangasamy
Keyword(s):  
Heat Transfer ◽  
Nusselt Number ◽  
Heat Exchanger ◽  
Numerical Study ◽  
Numerical Models ◽  
Plate Heat Exchanger ◽  
Test Fluid ◽  
Plate Heat ◽  
Plate Spacing ◽  
Spiral Plate

An experimental and numerical study of heat transfer and flow characteristics of spiral plate heat exchanger was carried out. The effects of geometrical aspects of the spiral plate heat exchanger and fluid properties on the heat transfer characteristics were also studied. Three spiral plate heat exchangers with different plate spacing (4mm, 5mm and 6 mm) were designed, fabricated and tested. Physical models have been experimented for different process fluids and flow conditions. Water is taken as test fluid. The effect of mass flow rate and Reynolds number on heat transfer coefficient has been studied. Correlation has been developed to predict Nusselt numbers. Numerical models have been simulated using CFD software package FLUENT 6.3.26. The numerical Nusselt number have been calculated and compared with that of experimental Nusselt number.

scholarly journals Plate heat exchanger design software for industrial and educational applications

2017 ◽  
Vol 71 (5) ◽  
pp. 439-449
Author(s):  
Nikola Zlatkovic ◽  
Divna Majstorovic ◽  
Mirjana Kijevcanin ◽  
Emila Zivkovic
Keyword(s):  
Heat Transfer ◽  
Heat Exchanger ◽  
Heat Exchangers ◽  
Plate Heat Exchanger ◽  
Heat Transfer Area ◽  
Transfer Coefficients ◽  
Plate Heat ◽  
Two Fluids ◽  
Heat Exchanger Design ◽  
Educational Applications

Plate heat exchanger is a type of heat exchanger that uses corrugated metal plates to transfer heat between two fluids. The plate corrugations are designed to achieve turbulence across the entire heat transfer area thus producing the highest possible heat transfer coefficients while allowing close temperature approaches. Subsequently, this leads to a smaller heat transfer area, smaller units and in some cases, fewer heat exchangers. In this work, an application for thermal and hydraulic computations of plate heat exchangers had been developed using Sharp Develop, an open source programming platform. During the development process, several literature methods and correlations for calculation of heat transfer coefficient and pressure drop in a plate heat exchanger have been tested and the selected four methods: Martin, VDI, Kumar and Coulson and Richardson have been incorporated into the software. The structure of the software is visually presented through several windows: a window for inserting input data, windows for showing the results of computation by each of the methods, a window for showing comparative analysis of the most important computation results obtained by all of the used methods and a help window for demonstrating the working principle of plate heat exchanger.

New experimental Nusselt number correlation for spiral plate heat exchanger optimized using a code

2020 ◽  
pp. 095765092094829
Author(s):  
Meisam Ghodrati ◽  
Jamshid Khorshidi
Keyword(s):  
Experimental Data ◽  
Nusselt Number ◽  
Heat Exchanger ◽  
Plate Heat Exchanger ◽  
Average Error ◽  
Plate Heat ◽  
Complete Uncertainty ◽  
Working Parameters ◽  
Spiral Plate ◽  
Nusselt Number Correlation

A system of a spiral plate heat exchanger and its required auxiliaries was built. The pitches of heat exchanger were built differently to provide almost two geometrically different heat exchangers in a single package. Several experiments were done and working parameters of the heat exchanger were measured. A code was written to find a new optimised correlation that could approximate the Nusselt Number based on the obtained experimental data from 51 reliable experiments. As an advantage, that correlation was valid for low Reynolds Numbers. Also, in most of previous works, the correlation for Nusselt Number in one side of the heat exchanger was supposed to be known and the correlation for the other side was determined. But, in this study, the equation was found using calculations for both sides simultaneously. The overal heat transfer coefficient calculated from the proposed correlation, made an average error of 3.65% to the experimental data. A complete uncertainty analysis was done and revealed that the results from the new correlation for the Nusselt Number lies between [Formula: see text] around the real Nusselt Number.

scholarly journals Numerical and Experimental Study of Air-to-Air Plate Heat Exchangers with Plain and Offset Strip Fin Shapes

Energies ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 13 (21) ◽  
pp. 5710
Author(s):  
Kyung Rae Kim ◽  
Jae Keun Lee ◽  
Hae Do Jeong ◽  
Yul Ho Kang ◽  
Young Chull Ahn
Keyword(s):  
Heat Transfer ◽  
Heat Exchanger ◽  
Pressure Drop ◽  
Predictive Model ◽  
Plate Heat Exchanger ◽  
Experimental Results ◽  
Plate Heat ◽  
Frictional Pressure Drop ◽  
The Difference ◽  
Control Volumes

This study evaluates the performance of a plate heat exchanger numerically and experimentally. The predictive model for estimating the heat transfer and frictional pressure drop across the plain and offset strip fins is compared with the experimental results with the parameters of Reynolds number and fin pitch. The heat transfer of the offset fin shape is 13.4% higher than that of the plain fin in the experiment in the case of Re = 6112 for the hot airflow and Re = 2257 for the cold airflow. A predictive model uses the effectiveness-Number of Transfer Units (NTU) method with the discretization in the segments divided into small control volumes in the heat exchanger. The difference of heat transfer and pressure drop for the plain fin between the numerical and the experimental results are approximately 1.9% and 5.9%, respectively. Thus, the results indicate that the predictive model for estimating the heat transfer is useful for evaluating the performance of the plate heat exchanger in the laminar-to-transition regions.

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