scholarly journals Experimental and Numerical Delving Of Full Spiral Shell and Tube EGR Cooler

2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (4) ◽  
pp. 1227-1234

Exhaust gas recirculation (EGR) coolers can profoundly reduce hazardous NOx emissions from Diesel engines. In this project flow and heat transfer characteristics of Full spiral shell and tube EGR cooler is investigated experimentally and numerically using CFD (ANSYS FLUENT V16.4) software. Geometrical parameters of modification of spiral corrugated tubes include diameters (inside and outside), effective length, thickness, Pitch, number of revolutions were made by constructing 5 models of EGR coolers with A-7 tubes, B-9 tubes, C-11 tubes, D-13 tubes and E-15 tubes using ANSYS FLUENT. Model D with 13 tubes is found to be efficient and economical. Using spiral corrugated tubes shown improvement in Heat transfer effectiveness and heat transfer coefficient experimentally and numerically for 13 tubes EGR Cooler. Also almost 22% increase in effectiveness is observed using spiral corrugated tubes instead of plain tubes. Both experimental and numerical results are obtained and are compared. BS-VI is a significant advancements with regard to NOx limits having 0.06 gm/km. EGR cooler with spiral corrugated tubes can help in reducing NOx limits to great extent.

2012 ◽  
Vol 2012 ◽  
pp. 1-10 ◽  
Author(s):  
P. Gunnasegaran ◽  
N. H. Shuaib ◽  
M. F. Abdul Jalal

Compact heat exchangers (CHEs) have been widely used in various applications in thermal fluid systems including automotive thermal management systems. Among the different types of heat exchangers for engine cooling applications, cross-flow CHEs with louvered fins are of special interest because of their higher heat rejection capability with the lower flow resistance. In this study, the effects of geometrical parameters such as louver angle and fin pitch on air flow and heat transfer characteristics on CHEs are numerically investigated. Numerical investigations using five different cases with increased and decreased louver angles (+2°, +4°, −2°, −4°, and uniform angle 20°), with a fixed fin pitch and using three different fin pitches (1.0 mm, 2.0 mm, and 4.0 mm), and with the fixed louver angle are examined. The three-dimensional (3D) governing equations for the fluid flow and heat transfer are solved using a standard finite-volume method (FVM) for the range of Reynolds number between 100 and 1000. The computational model is used to study the variations of pressure drop, flow temperature, and Nusselt number.


Author(s):  
Alok A. Joshi ◽  
Scott James ◽  
Peter Meckl ◽  
Galen King ◽  
Kristofer Jennings

Physics-based models of diesel engines with exhaust gas recirculation and a variable geometry turbine (EGR/VGT) have been developed extensively in the control system design community. However, these models omit the heat transfer effects of the charge-air cooler and the recirculated exhaust gas cooler in order to avoid the added complexity in model order for online implementation. Generally, there is no need to include these effects if the purpose of the model is to control the target variables, such as boost pressure and air-to-fuel ratio. In this paper, after surveying the existing state of physics-based models for the EGR/VGT subsystem, a comprehensive model of the EGR/VGT subsystem is developed. This model includes heat transfer effects in the coolers, pressure drops across air filters and pipes, and mass flow rate calculations for a variable geometry turbine and an exhaust gas recirculation control valve. The purpose and scope of this work is offline modeling-for-diagnostics. Such models, though complex, will assist in the fault sensitivity analysis of a subsystem while avoiding any destructive testing when a major design modification in the EGR/VGT subsystem is proposed. For example, the impact of charge-water or EGR cooler degradation on the boost pressure and the air-to-fuel ratio can be studied with such models to further help in designing diagnostic reasoning strategies. Simulation performed using the proposed physicsbased model demonstrates a dominant failure effect of an EGR cooler coolant leak over a charge-water cooler water leak on the properties of the intake air.


2012 ◽  
Vol 201-202 ◽  
pp. 107-110
Author(s):  
Xing Cao ◽  
Wen Jing Du ◽  
Lin Cheng

Numerical simulation of shell-and-tube heat exchangers with novel helical baffles was carried out by using commercial codes to study shell-side flow and heat transfer characteristics. The results show that compared with shell-and-tube heat exchangers with conventional helical baffles, the ones with novel helical baffles can efficiently reduce the leakage from triangle zone so that the distributions of both the velocity field and heat transfer on tubes are more uniform. The comparison of comprehensive performance which is evaluated by heat transfer coefficient per unit pressure drop between conventional helical baffles and novel ones indicates that the latter performs better.


2013 ◽  
Vol 49 (7) ◽  
pp. 1051-1055 ◽  
Author(s):  
Seongsoo Kim ◽  
Hanshik Chung ◽  
Hyomin Jeong ◽  
Byungho Lee ◽  
Bayanjargal Ochirkhuyag ◽  
...  

Author(s):  
Ning Guan ◽  
Zhigang Liu ◽  
Masahiro Takei ◽  
Chengwu Zhang

A numerical study on flow and heat transfer of de-ionized water over in-line and staggered micro-cylinder-groups had been performed with Reynolds number varying in the range from 0 to 150. A 3-D incompressible numerical model was employed to investigate the vortex distributions and the influences of the vortexes on the flow and heat transfer characteristics at low Re numbers in micro-cylinder-groups with different geometrical parameters, including micro-cylinder diameters (100μm, 250μm and 500μm), ratios of pitch to micro-cylinder diameter (1.5 2 and 2.5) and ratios of micro-cylinder height to diameter (0.5, 1, 1.5 and 2), etc. The vortex distributions, the flow and temperature fields, and the relationships among them were investigated by solving the numerical model with the finite volume method. It was found that the vortex number became larger with the increase of pitch ratio, and the change of flow rate distribution affected the heat transfer characteristics apparently. The appearance of vortexes in micro-cylinder-group increased the differential pressure resistance; as a result the total flow resistance in micro-cylinder-groups correspondingly increased. Meanwhile, the local heat transfer coefficients nearby the locations of vortexes greatly increased due to the boundary layer separation, which further enhanced the heat transfer in micro-cylinder-groups. The new correlations which could predict Nusselt number of de-ionized water over micro-cylinders with Re number varying from 0–150 had been proposed considering the differential pressure resistance and the natural convection based on numerical calculations in this paper.


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