Analysis of Heat Transfer and Optimal Parameters of Multi-louvered Fin Condenser

The authors conduct the experimental study and optimal computing for the condenser of automobile air conditioner. The especially the properties of heat transfer and flow at the side of air when using shutter fin. The authors the influence of several combinations of fin's geometry parameter to heat transfer and flow resistance. The maximal heat transfer is used as a criterion relation to select the fin's geometry parameters in the same facing air area of condenser. Furthermore, a program is designed to conduct optimal computing, and the computing results are basically consistent with experimental results. It shows that the optimal method is reasonable and the results can be applied to engineering practice.     

Convection Heat Transfer Coefficient Distribution Over the Single Rectangle Fin Surface

Rectangle fin is widely used in different kinds of heat exchangrs. Convection heat transfercoefficient distribution over the fin surface is one of the theorehcal problems in research on enhancement of heat transfer. In this paper, a tube with an attached rectangular fin is used for a model and thefin surface is divided into a network of nodes by the finite difference techinque. When the wind velocityis u= 4. 5 m/s. the temperature distribution of discretization is obtained by experimental measurement,then the convection heat transfer coefficient of all nodes are soved by using the methed of inverse heatconduction problem. Through checking with heat balance methed, the results show that the solution cancorrectly express the actual heat transfer situation.This result is useful to experimental research onenhancement of heat transfer for finned for heat exchangers.     

Numerical Calculation of Fin Efficiencies and Performances of Rectangular Flat Fins with Modified Geometry

Numerical calculation with FEM was carried out for the fin efficiencies of common rectangular flat fin and three flat fins with modified geometry The result shows that the general heat tasfer performance of fin B2 is higher than that of common flat fin, but the fin efficiency is lower. Both the performances of heat transfer and fin efficiences of fin C and fin D are higher than those of common flat fin. The work of this paper is valuable for optimization design of high efficient fin.     

Conjugate Natural Convective Heat Transfer in an Enclosure with Discrete Protruded Heat Sources

The mathematic model on natural convection is proposed in a two-dimensional enclosure cavity with an isothermal heat sink at one vertical wall and five discrete protruded sources. Numerical study is performed to analyze the natural convection in the enclosure with a variety of aspect ratio, the range of which is from 3.0 to 12.22, Ra H is 10 7 and Pr is 30.The computed results show that the total heat transfer effect under the situation with discrete protruded heat sources is prior to that with flat wall heated. Moreover, when the aspect ratio is comparatively large, there is several secondary flow in the enclosure, which enhance the convective heat transfer. On the contrary, when the aspect ratio is small, the secondary flow weakened or disappeared, and the total convective heat transfer drop. Finally, the convective heat transfer criteria in the enclosure is obtained.     

An Experimental Investigation of Condensation Heat Transfer of HC600a-Oil Mixture in a Horizontal Micro-fin Tube

Experimental study of condensation heat transfer of HC600a-oil mixture in a horizontal micro fin tube is performed to investigate the inflence of oil percentage, saturated pressure and mass flux on condensation heat transfer.The empirical correlation according to this study is well correlated by the experimental data. By comparing with other refrigerants, HC600a has no inflence on ozone depletion and better heat transfer characteristcs than CFC12 and HCFC134a. It is a promising substitute for CFC12.     

NUMERICAL STUDY OF FLOW AND HEAT TRANSFER IN AN INCLINED RECTANGULAR FIN GROOVE

Flow and heat transfer are numerically studied in a rectangular fin groove when the fin base is heated with contsant temperature. Rayleigh number, inclination , aspect ratio, thick ness and conductivity of the fin are systematically changed to examine their effects. Five flow patterns are found, local and average characteristics are given, and the mechanism of heat transfer is discussed. The results can be used as a reference for fin designs.     

Numerical Study of FLow and Heat Transfer in Rectangular CHannel with Dimpled SUrface

This authors uses a physical model of the rectangular channel with dimpled surface to simulate the flow and heat transfer situation. On the basis of actual flow and heat transfer in the channel, it made the interrelated hypothesizes and built up the math model. They adopted the turbulent model, appliy the algorithm to resolve the pressure-velocity coupling and use the experimental data model to check up the feasibility of the model. By the study, the thesis shows the principle of the flow and heat transfer in narrow channel with a dimple surface and gets the factors and the conditions that affect the flow and heat transfer. The results show that the geometry structure and rank distributing of dimple affect the capability of heat transfer evidently. When Reynolds number is low, the capability of heat transfer becomes better as the number increases, and when Reynolds number is bigger than a critical point, there is a little influence.     

Influence of Backfill on Performance of Ground Heat Exchanger

The physical and mathematical model of three dimensional unsteady coupled heat transfer in the ground heat exchanger is proposed, and corresponding numerical simulations for actual ground heat exchanger and operation condition are carried out. The computed results are compared with those of the thermal resistance test of the ground heat exchanger, which proves the correctness of the model and corresponding numerical methods. Then, the effects of thermal conductivity and specific heat of the ground backfill material on the ground heat exchanger are investigated, which provides theoretical guidance for the thermal response test and the engineering design of the ground heat exchanger.     

Experimental Study of Flow and Heat Transfer in Heat Exchanger with Small Channels

The experimental study of the flow resistance and heat transfer characteristics are conducted for water and ethylene glycol solution (66% Wt) flowing in the heat exchanger with small rectangular microchannels . The heat exchanger having the channels of 0.4 mm in width, 2.0 mm in height, and 20 mm in length is heated by a hearing rod at the bottom surface, the upper and two side surfaces are adiabatic. During experiments, the Reynolds number are ranged from 2 to 2 500. The experimental results show that the flow friction factor decreases and Nusselt number increases with increasing Reynolds number for water and ethylene glycol solution. At a fixed Reynolds number, the Nusselt number for ethylene glycol solution with larger Prandtl number is greater than that for water. Meanwhile, the correlations of flow resistance and heat transfer in the heat exchanger with small channels are obtained for engineering application.     

Pressure Drop and Evaporative Heat Transfer Characteristics of Air-water Bubbling Flow

A new kind of evaporative heat transfer experiment for the cooling process of condensers is conducted. The test coil is immersed in an air-water bubbling layer. The air-water two-phase flow passes through the heating tubes of the coil. Due to the motion of the air bubbles in the water, a thin water film forms on the surface of the heating tubes. As the air bubbles passing by the tubes the water is evaporated into the air. The tubes of coil reject heat to the water film, and the evaporation of the water film then rejects heat to the air bubble stream. This heat transfer mode significantly increases the heat transfer coefficient between tubes and air. The consumption of the power of a water pump can be decreased. Moreover, the airflow rate required is less than that of an air-cooled condenser.The pressure drop of air through air-water bubbling layer and the heat transfer between the tubes and water are experimentally investigated in the paper. The results show that the factors affecting the pressure drop and the heat transfer coefficient involve the pore geometry of sieve plate, the height of the air-water bubbling layer, the air flow rate through the sieve plate and the heat flux of tubes. The heat transfer coefficient between tube and water is two times larger than that of falling film of water on the outer surface of tube.     

Experimental investigation of electrothermal defrost tubes’ arrangement on heat transfer and flow resistance characteristics of evaporator

The paper presents new arrangement types of electrothermal defrost tubes and manufactures four evaporator samples. Through a wind tunnel refrigeration experimental test-bed, relatively experiments for every sample are carried to study heat transfer and flow resistances characteristics of evaporator. The experiment results show that in experimental face velocity range from 1.5 m/s to 4.3 m/s compared with flat-fin evaporator, the unit area of cooling capacity of DK-8 evaporator increased 28.1% to 36.2%, the fin surface coefficient of heat transfer raises 79.2% to 83.5%, the compressor COP (Coefficient of Performance) improves 38.2% to 46.9%, and the air side flow resistance decreases 5.29% to 18.3% in the same experimental condition and geometric size. The increase amplitude of COP is obviously higher than air side flow resistance. The experimental investigation results prove that it is completely feasible optimized combing defrost design with heat transfer enhancement design.     

Heat Transfer Performance of Horizontal Enhanced Condenser Tubes

In this paper, experimental results on heat transfer performance of a low integral-fin tube, thermoexcel-C tube (C tube) and a new horizontal double-side enhanced condenser tube (GC tube) have been reported for condensation of R-11. Within our experimental scope,the overall heat transfer coefficient of the GC tube can increase more than 5 times that of the smooth tube . And the relevant friction factor inside the GC tube can be 7 times that of the smooth tube. The Second law of thermodynamics was applied to develop a new criterion to assess the heat transfer performance of the GC tube,the C tube,the low integral-fin tube,and the DAC tube[1] (another doubleside enhanced condenser tube). The result shows the heat transfer performance of the GC tube is superior to the other tubes from a thermodynamical viewpoint.     

Comparative Analysis of Heat Exchange Performance ofEnergy Piles and Borehole Heat Exchangers in GSHP System

Due to their enhanced cost-effectiveness and efficiency over traditional borehole exchangers, energy piles are increasingly used in Ground Sourced Heat Pump (GSHP) projects. In this paper, the structural characteristics of these two types of heat exchangers and their heat transfer mechanism were discussed firstly. The thermal response tests (TRT) were performed on two testing energy piles in one GSHP project in Nanjing, China. The TRT results were then used to verify the numerical simulations, which suggests that the heat exchange performance of energy piles is superior to that of the traditional borehole exchangers. Meanwhile, the numerical simulation method used in this paper was considered applicable to the optimization design of ground heat exchangers in GSHP system.     

Experimental Study on Refrigeration Performance of Fin-tube With Circular Hole Under the Frost Condition

The performance of heat transfer of fin-tube with circular hole is better than fin-tube without hole if there is no frost,but what is the situation if under the frost condition.Tthe comparison study on performance of heat transfer and refrigeration is carriedout under the frost condition for the heat exchanger with three kinds of fins: circular and half circular hole,circular hole,plane form.The experiment process is finished through the refrigeration system of icebox.In the course of experiment,the influence of frost process to the diameter of circular hole;is analyzed The real refrigeration amount,heat transfer coefficient and real refrigeration coefficient of the three kinds of fins are compared;compare the effect of energy saving of enforced fins is given.The fin efficiency is calculated method and make out the real convection coefficient to disclose the situation of heat transfer of fins is lnade out.Results: compared with plane form fin,the following results are for fin-tube with circular hole: average heat transfer coefficient rise 11.53%,convection coefficient rises 18.84%,real refrigeration coefficient rises 6.83%,virtual refrigeration amount rises 6.02%,electricity saving is 6.39%.Fin-tube with circular hole is the best form for the three kinds of fins.     

Performonce of Fouling Fluidized-Removing and Heat Transfer Enhancement on Sewage Side of Sewage-Source Heat Pump System

High thermal resistance resulted by fouling in heat exchanger restricts the application of sewage source heat pump (SSHP) system. The fouling forming mechanism was applied with solid-liquid fluidized bed technique for fouling prevention and removing of SSHP system. Shearing stress model of solid-liquid fluidized bed heat-exchanger is analyzed, and collision stress model is modified. Preventing and removing fouling mechanisms of solid-liquid fluidized bed technique by shearing stress and collision stress was explained. An experimental study on how to solve the fouling problem (such as fouling prevention and removing, heat transfer enhancement, etc) is discussed. The results of theory and experiment show that solid-liquid fluidized bed technique can be used not only to increase convection coefficient, but also to restrict fouling growing, it can effectively solve the fouling problem in SSHP system.     

GGH heat transfer enhancement and a new type heat exchangerin the desulphurization system of wet flue gas

This paper conducts in-tube heat transfer experiments in a three dimensional fin tube with 102 mm outer diameter.Compared with the smooth tube,the heat transfer enhancement ratio is between 1.65 and 1.7,and the pressure drop ratio is between 1.65 and 1.7.Based on the analysis of the heat transfer and tube surface temperature,a new type heat exchanger is put forward.Moreover,the design and calculation method is explored.The engineering example indicate that not only the tube surface temperature is higher than the smooth tube,but also the quantity of heat is increased by about 20% than the smooth tube.Compared with other types,the new type heat exchanger has a overall better performance.     

Study on Heat Transfer Characteristics in Waste Gas of the Exchanger

By the calculation and experiment,analysed the heat transfer characteristies in waste gas of the high temperature exchanger.The results which the reasonable vertical and horizontal distances were obtained,these turned out that the metallic rediation net was the effectve method intensified heat transfer in hot waste gas.The infulence of the velcity and temperature of waste gas on the multiple heat transfer caefficrent of the exchanger was studied by the experiment data.     

Entropy Generation Analysis of Heat Transfer Process through a Duct

Based on the first and the second laws of thermodynamic, the entropy generation of heat transfer process from the inside to the outside through a duct is analyzed. A dimensionless entropy generation number based on the fluid of inside duct is introduced and an analytical expression for the dimensionless entropy generation number is obtained. The effect of some dimensionless parameters on the irreversibility performance of heat transfer process through a duct is discussed. The results show that an optimal Reynolds number of fluid inside duct is found to make dimensionless entropy generation number minimum , the dimensionless entropy generation number increases with the increment of the ratio of the Reynolds number of inside and outside duct fluids, dimensionless inlet temperature difference and dimensionless characteristic geometric dimension. The results from this paper provide a reference for the thermodynamic performance evaluation on the basic heat transfer process through a duct and enhancement in double sides of duct.     

The Effect of Contact Thermal Resistance on Temperature Distribution in the Tube-Mouth Region of High Temperature Heat Exchange Equipment

Heat transfer in the tube-mouth region of high temporature heat exchangeequipment was further analysed. The finite difference method(FDM)was employed for investigat-ing emphatically the effects of contact thermal resistance on heat transfer.Temperature distributionin the tube-mouth region with the different contact thermal resistance was found.The computation-al results were compared with that which were obtained with no contact thermal resistance,and thecorresponding heat transfer mechanism was fully analysed.     

THE EFFECT OF THE CONVECT1VE HEAT TRANSFER IN THE ENTRANCE REGION OF THE TUBE ON THE HEAT TRANSFER IN THE TRBE -MOUTH REGION OF THE HIGH TEMPERATURE HEAT EXCHANGE EQUIPMENT

The effect of the convective heat transfer in the entrance region of the tube on the temperature field and the maximum temperature of the tube material in the tube -mouth region of the high temperature heat exchange equipment is examined by numerical analysis. The computations on the basis of four different formulas for convection heat transfer coefficient are performed. The computed results indicate that the efect can not be ignored as for heat protection of the tube -mouth region and it is resapnable and secure that the mean convective heat transfer coefficient with taking account of the effect of the entrance region is used in the thermal design of the tube -mouth region.