scholarly journals Substantiation and the range of application of a new method for heat transfer prediction in condensing inside plain tubes

Energetika ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 64 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Volodymyr Rifert ◽  
Volodymyr Sereda ◽  
Vadim Gorin ◽  
Peter Barabash ◽  
Andrii Solomakha

Since the first work of Tepe and Mueller and until now, there have been published hundreds of studies with the results of heat transfer investigations in vertical and horizontal tubes with vapour condensing of various liquids. Dozens of methods and formulae based both on the results of the theoretical research and on the experimental data have been proposed. The existence of more than 50% discrepancy in different experimental data and various empirical and theoretical relationships is shown. Thus, the absence of both substantiation of different methods and explanations of methods disagreement both between themselves and with different experiments is noted. Also, there are often no remarks concerning boundaries for the use of proposed relationships. There is proposed a simple semi-empirical correlation for heat transfer prediction in condensing inside the plain tubes at the annular and intermediate flow of the phases. This correlation is based on the nature of film condensation process and on the specific features of the results of theoretical solutions. The range of application of complexes, which determine the heat transfer process, is also substantiated. Good convergence of the new method with the experimental data on condensation of steam, carbon dioxide, hydrocarbon refrigerants and other various fluids inside horizontal and vertical tubes is shown.

2021 ◽  
Vol 39 (2) ◽  
pp. 390-402
Author(s):  
Yanán Camaraza-Medina

This paper presents the main results of the research developed by the author in his postdoctoral investigations on heat transfer calculations during film condensation inside tubes. The elements studied are combined in an analysis expression that provides a reasonable fit with the available experimental data, which includes a total of 22 fluids, including water, refrigerants and a wide range of organic substances, which condense inside horizontal, inclined and vertical tubes. These experimental data were obtained from the reports of 33 sources. Available data covers tube diameters from 2 to 50 mm, mass flow rates from 3 to 850 kg/(m2s), reduced pressures ranging from 0.0008 to 0.91, values for single-phase from 1 to , Reynolds number for two-phase from 900 to 594390, Reynolds number for single-phase from 65 to 84950 and vapor quality from 0.01 to 0.99. The mean deviation found for the analyzed data for horizontal tubes was 13.4%, while for the inclined and vertical tubes data the mean deviation was 14.9%. In all cases, the agreement of the proposed model is good enough to be considered satisfactory for practical design.


2015 ◽  
Vol 19 (5) ◽  
pp. 1769-1789 ◽  
Author(s):  
Volodymyr Rifert ◽  
Volodymyr Sereda

Survey of the works on condensation inside smooth horizontal tubes published from 1955 to 2013 has been performed. Theoretical and experimental investigations, as well as more than 25 methods and correlations for heat transfer prediction are considered. It is shown that accuracy of this prediction depends on the accuracy of volumetric vapor content and pressure drop at the interphase. The necessity of new studies concerning both local heat transfer coefficients and film condensation along tube perimeter and length under annular, stratified and intermediate regimes of phase flow was substantiated. These characteristics being defined will allow determining more precisely the boundaries of the flow regimes and the methods of heat transfer prediction.


1961 ◽  
Vol 83 (1) ◽  
pp. 55-60 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael Ming Chen

The boundary-layer equations for laminar film condensation are solved for (a) a single horizontal tube, and (b) a vertical bank of horizontal tubes. For the single-tube case, the inertia effects are included and the vapor is assumed to be stationary outside the vapor boundary layer. Velocity and temperature profiles are obtained for the case μvρv/μρ ≪ 1 and similarity is found to exist exactly near the top stagnation point, and approximately for the most part of the tube. Heat-transfer results computed with these similar profiles are presented and discussed. For the multiple-tube case, the analysis includes the effect of condensation between tubes, which is shown to be partly responsible for the high observed heat-transfer rate for vertical tube banks. The inertia effects are neglected due to the insufficiency of boundary-layer theory in this case. Heat-transfer coefficients are presented and compared with experiments. The theoretical results for both cases are also presented in approximate formulas for ease of application.


1997 ◽  
Vol 119 (2) ◽  
pp. 376-379 ◽  
Author(s):  
Y. Parlatan ◽  
U. S. Rohatgi

A simple method has been developed to model boiling heat transfer from a heat exchanger to pools using the experimental data available in the literature without modeling the flow dynamics of the pool. In this approach the heat flux outside vertical tubes is expressed as a function of outside wall temperature of the tubes and saturation temperature of the pool at or near atmospheric pressure.


Author(s):  
Georgii Glebovich Yankov ◽  
Vladimir Kurganov ◽  
Yury Zeigarnik ◽  
Irina Maslakova

Abstract The review of numerical studies on supercritical pressure (SCP) coolants heat transfer and hydraulic resistance in turbulent flow in vertical round tubes based on Reynolds-averaged Navier-Stokes (RANS) equations and different models for turbulent viscosity is presented. The paper is the first part of the general analysis, the works based on using algebraic turbulence models of different complexity are considered in it. The main attention is paid to Petukhov-Medvetskaya and Popov et al. models. They were developed especially for simulating heat transfer in tubes of the coolants with significantly variable properties (droplet liquids, gases, SCP fluids) under heating and cooling conditions. These predictions were verified on the entire reliable experimental data base. It is shown that in the case of turbulent flow in vertical round tubes these models make it possible predicting heat transfer and hydraulic resistance characteristics of SCP flows that agree well with the existed reliable experimental data on normal and certain modes of deteriorated heat transfer, if significant influence of buoyancy and radical flow restructuring are absent. For the more complicated cases than a flow in round vertical tubes, as well as for the case of rather strong buoyancy effect, more sophisticated prediction techniques must be applied. The state-of-the-art of these methods and the problems of their application are considered in the Part II of the analysis.


1986 ◽  
Vol 10 (3) ◽  
pp. 141-152
Author(s):  
H.M. Badr ◽  
S.M. Ahmed

The aim of this work is a theoretical investigation to the problem of heat transfer from an isothermal horizontal cylinder rotating in a quiescent fluid. The study is based on the solution of the conservation equations of mass, momentum and energy for two-dimensional flow of a Boussinesq fluid. The effects of the parameters which influence the heat transfer process namely the Reynolds number and Grashof number are considered while the Prandtl number is held constant. Streamline and isotherm patterns are obtained from the mathematical model and the results are compared with previous experimental data. A satisfactory agreement was found.


2018 ◽  
Vol 251 ◽  
pp. 02048 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ian Ofrikhter ◽  
Alexander Zaharov ◽  
Andrey Ponomaryov ◽  
Natalia Likhacheva

In this paper, a new model is presented for calculating the thermal conductivity of soils, and the main provisions for the derivation of analytical formulas are given. The presented model allows taking into account the density, moisture content and temperature of the soil base. The technique presented in the paper makes it possible to dispense with laborious experiments to estimate the thermal conductivity of the soil. The method of analytical calculation is step by step presented in the paper. Two variants of using the method are proposed: 1) Less accurate method, for preliminary evaluation, without the need to take probe and conduct experiments. 2) More accurate method, with at least one experiment with a disturbed or undisturbed sample. The results of comparison of calculated values of thermal conductivity and experimental data are presented.


1989 ◽  
Vol 111 (4) ◽  
pp. 292-297 ◽  
Author(s):  
Karen R. Den Braven

This work analyzes the heat transfer within a tilted thermosyphon and its use in a heat pipe evacuated-tube solar collector. A detailed examination is made of the laminar film condensation process, including the effects of interfacial shear due to the moving vapor. Effects of film surface waves are later included. Including the shear term in the constitutive equations changes the predicted film thickness in the condenser portion of the device by less than one percent, depending on location along the surface. This change causes only a slight increase in the predicted heat transfer. Accounting for surface waves increases the heat transfer rate 10 percent to 50 percent in the Reynolds number range studied. The condenser results are combined with a simple trough model for the evaporator portion of the thermosyphon to give the effective heat-transfer coefficient for the entire tube. Predicted performances of the condenser, the evaporator, and the entire tube compare favorably with available data.


1996 ◽  
Vol 63 (2) ◽  
pp. 529-538 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. Narain

Internal flow of pure vapor experiencing film condensation on the walls of a straight horizontal duct is studied. The commonly occurring annular case of turbulent (or laminar) vapor flow in the core and laminar flow of the liquid condensate—with or without waves on the interface—is emphasized. We present a new methodology which models interfacial shear with the help of theory, computations, and reliable experimental data on heat transfer rates. The theory—at the point of onset of condensation—deals with issues of asymptotic form of interfacial shear, nonuniqueness of solutions, and selection of the physically admissible solution by a stability type criteria. Other details of the flow are predicted with the help of the proposed modeling approach. These predictions are shown to be in agreement with relevant experimental data. The trends for film thickness, heat transfer rates, and pressure drops are also made available in the form of power-law correlations.


1982 ◽  
Vol 104 (3) ◽  
pp. 459-464 ◽  
Author(s):  
R. I. Hirshburg ◽  
L. W. Florschuetz

The Nusselt theory for laminar film condensation or evaporation is shown to significantly underpredict existing experimental data because of the presence of waves on the liquid-vapor interface. A heat transfer model is presented which incorporates the results of a previously developed hydrodynamic wavy-film model (Part I). Results based on the model for both local and mean Nusselt numbers are shown to be consistent with available experimental data, and to satisfactorily account for the deviation of the data from the classical Nusselt theory.


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