Analysis of Shell and Tube Heat Exchanger With and Without Fins for Waste Heat Recovery Applications Using CFD

Authors(2) :-Deelip Kumar, Ashish Muchrikar

Waste heat is defined as a process by fuel combustion or chemical reaction, and then dumped into the environment. The strategy how to recover this heat depends upon part on the temperature of waste heat gases and economics involved. At present scenario the rapid industrial growth is the main reasons for crisis of energy, also for pollution. Diesel engine is widely used device in all industrial application. Nearly about 2/3rd energy is now wasted through the exhaust gas, which is indirectly caused of global warming and overall requirement of energy. The energy available in the exit stream of many energy conversion devices such as I.C. Engine gas turbine etc. goes as waste and if not utilize properly. The present work has been carried out for predicting performance of shell & finned tube heat exchanger in light of waste heat recovery applications. The performance of heat exchanger has been evaluated by using CFD package ANSYS 15.0. An attempt been made for predict the performance in term of heat flux available with and without fins with different heat transfer fluids & results obtained have been compared. The performance parameters pertaining to heat exchanger such as heat flux from Tube internal side fluid & tube external side fluids, heat transfer coefficient from both the fluids.

Authors and Affiliations

Deelip Kumar
Corporate Institute of Science & Technology, Bhopal Madhya Pradesh, India
Ashish Muchrikar
Corporate Institute of Science & Technology, Bhopal Madhya Pradesh, India

Waste heat, Heat Exchanger, CFD, Heat Transfer Coefficient, ANSYS.

  1. Kreith, F.; Boehm, R.F.; et. al. "Heat and Mass Transfer" Mechanical Engineering Handbook Ed. Frank Kreith Boca Raton: CRC Press LLC, 1999
  2. R. Hosseini, A. Hosseini-Ghaffar, M. Soltani , "Experimental determination of shell side heat transfer coefficient and pressure drop for an oil cooler shell-and-tube heat exchanger with three different tube bundles" Applied Thermal Engineering, 27 (2007) 1001-1008.
  3. Mansoor Siddique, Majed Alhazmy, "Experimental study of turbulent single-phase flow and heat transfer inside a micro-finned tube", International journal of refrigeration, Vol- 31 (2008)P.P 234-241.
  4. Ju-Suk Byuna, Jinho Leeb, Jun-Young Choi, "Numerical analysis of evaporation performance in a finned-tube heat exchanger", International Journal of Refrigeration, 30 (2007) 812-820.
  5. Chi-Chuan Wang a, Wei-Han Tao , Chun-Jung Chang, "An investigation of the airside performance of the slit fin -and-tube heat exchangers", International Journal of Refrigeration, 22 (1999) 595- 603.
  6. Chi-Chuan Wang, Kuan-Yu Chi, Chun-Jung Chang , "A correlation for fin-and-tube heat exchanger having plain fin geometry", International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer, 43 (2000) 2693±2700.
  7. J. Y. Yuna, K.S. Lee. "Investigation of heat transfer characteristics on various kinds of fin and tube heat exchangers with interrupted surfaces ", International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer, 31 "0888# 12641274
  8. Chi-Chuan Wanga, , Young-Ming Hwangb, Yur-Tsai Linb "Empirical correlations for heat transfer and flow friction characteristics of herringbone wavy fin-and-tube heat exchangers", International Journal of Refrigeration, 25 (2002) 673-680
  9. N. Kayansayan "Heat transfer characterization of plate fin-tube heat exchangers", Journal of International Refrigeration, (1994) Vol-17 P-P 117-125. [
  10. Mao-Yu Wen,  Ching-Yen Ho "Heat-transfer enhancement in fin and tube heat exchanger with improved fin design", Applied Thermal Engineering, 29 (2009) 1050-1057 .
  11. C. C. Wang W.L.Fu C. T. Chang "Heat Transfer and Friction Characteristics of Typical Wavy Fin-and-Tube Heat Exchangers", Experimental Thermal and Fluid Science, 1997; 14:174-186.
  12. Xiaokui Maa , Guoliang Dinga, , Yuanming Zhanga , Kaijian Wangb "The air side heat transfer and friction characteristics of 14 enhanced fin-and-tube heat exchangers with hydrophilic coating under wet conditions", International Journal of Refrigeration, 30 (2007) 1153 1167.
  13. Joydeep Barman, A.K. Ghoshal "Performance analysis of finned tube and unbaffled shell-and-tube heat exchangers", International Journal of Thermal Sciences, 46 (2007) 1311-1317.
  14. Desai and Bannur, V. Design, "fabrication and testing of heat recovery system from diesel engine exhaust". Journal of InstEngrs,Vol- 82,( 2001);p.p-111-118.
  15. Morcos VH. "Performance of shell-and-dimpled-tube heat exchangers for waste  heat  recovery". Heat Recovery Syst. CHP 1988;8(4):299-308.
  16. Anderson LZ, Robert Nation H. "Waste heat recovery system for an internal combustion engine". United States patent; 1982 [435-455].
  17. V. Pandiyarajan , M. ChinnaPandian , E. Malan , R. Velraj, R.V. Seeniraj, "Experimental investigation on heat recovery from diesel engine exhaust using finned shell and tube heat exchanger and thermal storage system". International Journal of Applied Energy, 2010:335-350.
  18. http:\\www.en.wikipedia.org\wiki\computational fluid dynamics.
  19. Anderson J.D., Computational fluid dynamics, International Edition. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1995.
  20. M. Necatiözisik, Heat Transfer- A basic approach. McGraw-Hill International Editions, pp. 524-566.
  21. Fluent User Guide, Fluent Inc. January 11, 2005.
  22. Amarvirchilka, Ashishkulkarni, modeling turbulent flows in Fluent, product version 6.1.
  23. J.P. Holman, Heat Transfer, McGraw-Hill, edition 2009
  24. C P Kothandaraman, S Subramanyan, Heat and Mass Transfer data book, Fifth edition. New age international publishers, edition 2007
  25. Fuel economy in furnaces and waste heat recovery-PCRA, 2

Publication Details

Published in : Volume 3 | Issue 3 | May-June 2017
Date of Publication : 2017-06-30
License:  This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
Page(s) : 453-459
Manuscript Number : IJSRSET173362
Publisher : Technoscience Academy

Print ISSN : 2395-1990, Online ISSN : 2394-4099

Cite This Article :

Deelip Kumar, Ashish Muchrikar, " Analysis of Shell and Tube Heat Exchanger With and Without Fins for Waste Heat Recovery Applications Using CFD, International Journal of Scientific Research in Science, Engineering and Technology(IJSRSET), Print ISSN : 2395-1990, Online ISSN : 2394-4099, Volume 3, Issue 3, pp.453-459, May-June-2017. Citation Detection and Elimination     |     
Journal URL : https://ijsrset.com/IJSRSET173362

Article Preview