Showing 16 results for Heat Transfer Coefficient
Volume 2, Issue 3 (2-2019)
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One of the miniaturization of heat transfer equipment is enhancing the convective heat transfer coefficient. The main aim of this study is design and producing a kind of nanofluid based on water and ethylene glycol. Graphene was synthesized via electrochemical method and its successful production was confirmed with XRD, FTIR spectrum and, SEM and TEM images. By using different amount of graphene i.e. 0.25, 0.5, 0.75, 1, 1.25, and 1.5%, water/ethylene glycol/graphene nanofluid was produced. Sodium dodecyl sulfate (SDS) was used as surfactant to improve graphene stability in the base fluid. The designed experimental setup was composed of spiral tube with constant wall temperature and equipped with flow meter and pressure and temperature indicators. Nusselt number and pressure drop were measured for pure water and compared with those obtained from theoretical relations and it was found that the setup works properly. Convective heat transfer coefficient, Nusselt number, and heat transfer rate were investigated for water/ethylene glycol (60/40 wt.%) and nanofluid with different amount of graphene using experimental setup. The results showed that by adding 1 wt.% graphene into the based fluid the convective heat transfer coefficient increased about 50% while pressure drop was also increased about 50%. Overall, the findings of this research work support the potential of water/ethylene glycol/graphene nanofluid for using in heating/cooling equipment.
Volume 6, Issue 21 (7-2009)
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Fruit juices are among heat sensitive foods. Vitamins, proteins and other organic materials present in most fruit juices may be easily decomposed during heat processing. Therefore, evaporators with minimum residence time and maximum efficiency for concentrating fruit juices should be applied. So,tubular type falling and climbing film evaporators are suitable devices.
In the present investigation, certain important factors in concentration of in digenous orange juice from north region of Iran in a pilot-plant double effect falling-climbing film evaporator have been studied. Variation of liquid film tickness, heat transfer coefficient, hydrodynamic and thermal properties show that evaporation of the fruit juices take places in turbulent regime and required concentration and ratio of the product concentration to acidity can be achieved by six stages evaporation.
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Volume 11, Issue 3 (9-2011)
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Abstract- In the present paper, three different samples of alumina used as nanoparticles in the ethylene glycol suspension of alumina with volumetric concentration in the range . These samples have different surface properties, shape and size. The use of Al2O3/EG nanofluids as coolants in a double-tube heat exchanger has been studied under laminar flow conditions. The hot solvent inlet heat exchanger must be cooled down with a specified amount. At first, heat transfer relations between hot solvent and nanofluids as coolants have been investigated theoretically. Subsequently, heat transfer area and flow rate of coolant are optimized by using the nanofluids. In the present paper, heat transfer coefficient, overall heat transfer coefficient, friction factor, pressure drop and pumping power for Al2O3/EG nanofluids calculated.
Ghodrat Ghassabi, Mohsen Kahrom,
Volume 15, Issue 1 (3-2015)
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In previous studies, there is no comprehensive experimental study that has evaluated dissimilarity between heat transfer and momentum transfer for all the interactions between effective variables. On the other hand, when a rectangular cylinder is located near a flat plate, skin friction coefficient and heat transfer coefficient are effected some variables that change in an extensive range. Therefore, testing all possible combinations of effective variables will not be reasonable. In this paper, maximum and minimum of skin friction coefficients and heat transfer coefficients were determined using robust Taguchi design. Design of experiments method was applied for decreasing the number of experiments without losing the required information in the first step. Then, experiments were performed in a wind tunnel, the maximum speed of which was 13 m/s. Finally, skin friction coefficient and heat transfer coefficient were optimized using Taguchi method and Minitab software. Results showed that dissimilarity between heat transfer and momentum transfer has occurred for all the possible combinations of the effective variables. Additionally, the gap height between the rectangular cylinder and flat plate was the most effective variable on generating the dissimilarity.
Mohammad Salimi, Seyed Mohsen Peyghambarzadeh, Seyed Hasan Hashemabadi, Alireza Chabi,
Volume 15, Issue 2 (4-2015)
Abstract
In this study, the forced convective heat transfer of pure water and alumina-water nanofluid with volume concentration of 0.5% and 1%, as a cooling fluid through a microchannel heat exchanger was experimentally investigated. This microchannel consists of 17 parallel channels with a rectangular cross section with 400 µm width, 560 µm height and 50 mm length. The experiments were performed in the range 600 to 1800 of Reynolds and constant heat flux conditions (19 W/cm2). Stability studies showed that alumina-water nanofluid at pH = 3 for 3 hours in a bath of the ultrasonic vibrating demonstrate the maximum stability. The variations of microchannel surface temperature, fluid temperature at the entrance region of the microchannel, average heat transfer coefficient of nanofluid and pure water, and their friction factor measured experimentally. Also comparison between average Nusselt number with existing heat transfer relationships was performed. The results show that heat transfer using nanofluid shows considerably increase in comparison to water. So that the maximum amount of average heat transfer coefficient for alumina-water nanofluid with 0.5% concentrations is about 32.8% and for alumina-water nanofluid with 1% concentrations about 49.7% in comparison to pure water. It was also found that the heat transfer coefficient increases with increasing Reynolds number and nanoparticle volume fraction.
Touraj Malekpour, Ali Keshavarz Valian, Masoud Zia Bashar Hagh, Bagher Soleimani,
Volume 15, Issue 10 (1-2016)
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In recent years, many researches have investigated nanofluids pool boiling and reported some contradictory results. In this study, the pool boiling heat transfer of water- alumina and TiO2-water nanofluids at saturated temperature was investigated experimentally. The experiments were conducted to investigate the impact of concentration and type of nanofluid on the pool boiling heat transfer of brass surface. Water- alumina and TiO2-water nanofluids with volumetric concentration of 0.0025-1% and 0.0025, 0.01, 0.25 % was used, respectively. An experimental setup with a cylindrical heated test section made of brass and surface roughness of 0.2µm was designed and fabricated. The experimental results showed that, the heat transfer decreases as the nanoparticles added into the pure water base fluid. At a constant heat flux, the heat transfer coefficient decreases as the alumina volumetric concentration increments from 0.0025 to 0.01% and then increases for further addition from 0.01 to 1%. The TiO2-water nanofluids performance with respect to the water-alumina nanofluids was not very promising. That means, the boiling heat transfer decreases while the boiling surface temperature increase at a constant heat flux.
Zahra Talebpour, Hamid Niazmand,
Volume 16, Issue 8 (10-2016)
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The interactions between vortical structures and spherical particles or droplets is of practical issues in two-phase flows. The interactions bring major changes in the flow field particularly when coupled with particle rotation. It is observed that the heat transfer rate is significantly influenced during the time that the vortices’ cores are in the vicinity of the particle. In this paper, transient heat transfer of a rotating spherical particle interacting with a pair of vortices in incompressible and viscous flow is studied using numerical solution of the Navier-Stokes and energy equations in the range of 20≥Re≤100 and non-dimensional rotational velocities 0≤Ω≤1, by computational code which has been developed by the authors. In order to ensure the accuracy of the calculation, the results are compared with numerical data reported in the literature and good agreement between results was observed. Then the effect of circulation direction of two vortices interacting with a particle by spin on its heat transfer rate was investigated. Also distribution of heat transfer coefficient at the particle surface with separate rotation around three different axes in two cases of interacting and non-interacting with vortices is given and the results of heat transfer coefficient are presented. The results show that particle rotation for Ω≤0.5, in both presence and absence of vortices in flow field has negligible effects on the particle heat transfer rate; however, with increasing of particle spin significant effects on heat transfer coefficient has been observed that due to the circulation direction of vortices, different amounts are obtained.
Seyed Mostafa Khodashenas, Mahsa Hajialibabaie, Ali Keshavarz Valian,
Volume 17, Issue 7 (9-2017)
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Vapor compression is an effective method of desalination in a small scale system. Such system has two hot outlet flows. These flows are used to preheat the feedwater. In this research, tube-in-tube heat exchanger with different number of inner tubes was designed and constructed as preheater. This heat exchanger contains many inner tubes where each tube is a separate inner flow line for hot flow. Heat exchanger was tested with one, two and three inner tubes. Volumetric flow rates varried from 30 to 120 lit/hr in annulus and 20 to 90 lit/hr for inner tubes respectively. The results showed that by changing number of inner tubes from 1 to 3, heat transfer increased 29%. However, 38.4% decrease in equivalent hydraulic diameter led to 22% drop in average nusselt number. Afterward, a dimensionless coefficient of performance enhancement, defined as the ratio of heat transfer rate variation and the required pumping power, used to determine number of inner tubes. The results implied that heat exchanger performance improved by increasing the number of inner tubes from 1 to 2. But there is no significant improvement when number of inner tubes changes from 2 to 3. Finally, a semi-emperical equation is presented for determination of Nusselt number in a heat exchanger with two inner tubes. This study indicated that this type of heat exchanger has the best performance for the system within the tested range.
Mehdi Mohammadi, Morteza Khayat,
Volume 17, Issue 12 (2-2018)
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Pool boiling has the ability to remove large heat flux at low difference temperature of wall and this can be further enhanced by using surface modification methods. This article investigates pool boiling heat transfer on 4 levels with different orientations. For this purpose, a laboratory device was designed and built. The main goal of providing a simple and cost-effective manner with high durability in industrial applications, to having the highest amount of critical heat flux at the lowest level of super-heated temperature difference. The results show that surface roughness factor causing a delay in connecting the bubbles and heat flux increased slightly. In addition to roughness factor, two factors separating bubbles from the fluid in the heat dissipation and more power nucleation sites and micro-bubble layer can be more important than the surface roughness. The surface polished in one direction with lower roughness has higher critical heat flux than circular rough surface. Ultimately to combine bubble separation and more feed the micro layer with made micro channel. With this method it could be increased 131% critical heat flux and 211% heat transfer coefficient.
Abazar Abadeh, , Mohammad Javad Maghrebi,
Volume 18, Issue 4 (8-2018)
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Heat transfer enhancement is widely applicable in various industries, specifically in heat exchangers. Optimizing of heat transfer in the absence of increased pumping energy will result in increased of total efficiency in different systems. In this paper, forced convection heat transfer and fluid flow of fully developed laminar regime in a horizontal tube under uniform and non-uniform step heat fluxes is investigated experimentally. The effect of uniform, non-uniform increasing and decreasing applied heat fluxes on heat transfer and fluid flow are investigated. The effect of various parameters on heat transfer and fluid flow characteristics in these models are reported. Uncertainty analysis is performed and acceptable maximum of 1.8 percent is acquired. The primary results compared to well-known Shah and London equation for validation and maximum error of 8.5 percent is reported. In the present paper, Energy and exergy are two approach of analyzing. Convection heat transfer coefficient enhancement of 19.3 and 22.3 percent compared with model 1 are reported for model 2 and 3 respectively, in energy analysis. Furthermore, in this paper, exergy analysis is done and irreversibility values of 0.0887, 0.0803 and 0.1037 are reported for model 1, model 2 and model 3 respectively. Finally, it is concluded that the model number 3 is the best way to enhance heat transfer because of the maximum averaged Nusselt number and the minimum entropy generation values
S. Nasiri, Sh. Talebi, M.r. Salimpour,
Volume 18, Issue 9 (12-2018)
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Investigating of boiling process is one of the attractive fields for researchers, because of many applications in industry such as heat exchangers and air condition systems. One of the important and effective factors in pool boiling heat transfer is the heating surface geometry. In present article, pool boiling of dionized water and Fe3O4/water nanofluid at atmospheric pressure have been analyzed on smooth and grooved copper surfaces, experimentally. The effect of rectangular, circular and triangular grooves with the same pitch on boiling heat transfer is the main aim of present article. The results have showed that the boiling heat transfer coefficient of dionized water in circular and rectangular grooved surfaces has enhanced 92% and 48.9%, respectively, and has reduced 33.1% in triangular grooved surface toward the smooth surface. Also, the boiling heat transfer coefficient of Fe3O4/water nanofluid in circular grooved surfaces has increased 40.7% and has decreased 21.8% and 88.7% in rectangular and triangular grooved surfaces, respectively, toward the smooth surface. The corners existence in rectangular and triangular geometries causes thermal resistance increasing and heat transfer coefficient decreasing toward circular geometry. Also, the groove area, the mechanism of bubbles creation and nanoparticles deposition content on different surfaces are effective on the boiling heat transfer. For investigation of depth effect, the grooves depth was increased in different geometries. By adding depth, the boiling heat transfer coefficient of water and nanofluid has increased up to 43.5% and 40.6%, respectively, because of heat transfer surface and nucleation sites density augmentation.
Volume 18, Issue 111 (4-2021)
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In the present study, a convective heat transfer coefficient
changes during deep fat frying was investigated. So, by keeping the oil temperature constant as a heat transfer medium, temperature changes in a potato strip (cube-shaped), in the center and left-right sides of the strip during frying by a three-channel thermocouple was measured. Processing temperature of oil was 150, 160 and 170
°C. The strip temperature was recorded by a data logger at ten-second intervals. Due to no significant changes in the temperature of different selected locations in potato strip, the center temperature was selected and recorded as an effective temperature. Also, heat transfer parameter included convective coefficient (
) was calculated in the range of 128_515 W/m
2.K .Result showed that
is high in high levels temperature because of increasing rate of moisture exiting and turbulence in the oil. Also, with increasing oil temperature, decreasing of oil content and decreasing in moisture content of slices were observed. The mass transfer parameters including the effective moisture diffusivity (
) and the oil diffusivity (
) were calculated in the range of 9.12×10
-9 _1.31×10
-8 m
2/s and 1.26×10
-5_1.52×10
-5 m
2/s , respectively
. By using the calculated coefficients, heat and mass transfer modeling, was done by mathematical equations and the relevant equations were solved by the method of separation variables. Simulation was also done with
COMSOL Multiphysics version 5.3a and the resulted profiles were also presented.
M. Rashidinejad , R. Maddahian, A.a. Abbasian Arani,
Volume 20, Issue 4 (4-2020)
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The closed-circuit cooling tower is described as the combination of both wet and dry cooling towers that hot water passes through the bundle of tubes as in the dry cooling towers and surrounding air passes around them in a forced or natural regimes. Thus, secondary water circulates as an open cycle and is sprayed on the bundle of tubes to preserve the tower cooling process. In the present research, the operation of a model of the closed-circuit wet cooling tower has been investigated numerically and experimentally. The effects of environmental condition on process water temperature, sprayed water temperature and air temperature have been evaluated, and the mass and heat transfer coefficients on the surface of hot water tubes have been calculated. According to these results, surrounding air temperature and humidity increasing decreases the tube outer surface mass and heat transfer coefficients. The mass and heat transfer coefficients rates are decreased by about 3% and 4% between the 278 and 288 K and are 6% and 7% between the 288 and 298 K inlet air temperature, respectively. The mass and heat transfer coefficients are both 18% for air inlet temperature between the 298 and 308 K. After 308 K these values are 4%. The decreasing rate of heat and mass transfer coefficient with increasing relative humidity from 10% to 20% is very low and from 20% to 40% is almost constant, and from 40% to 50% a 16% decrease in heat and mass transfer coefficients is observed.
Mohsen Khooshehchin, Samira Ghotbinasab, Akbar Mohammadidoust,
Volume 21, Issue 5 (4-2021)
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Increasing heat transfer and preventing sedimentation in equipment have always attracted the attention of engineers. In this work, the variations of salt concentration were effective on bubble diameter, departure frequency and generation points and its sediments acted as a heat transfer resistance. Therefore, first, the effect of ultrasonic waves on salt sedimentations in pool boiling was investigated. The results revealed that the ultrasonic waves had positive effect by suspending the soluble particles in the fluid and preventing them from precipitating on the surface of heat transfer. Increasing turbulences and perturbations due to changes in bubble dynamic and cavitation phenomenium, led to improve the heat transfer coefficient, significantly. The role of roughness on the surface heat transfer in bubble production was other investigation of the work. Bubble production by increasing the roughness with ultrasonic wave’s irradiation had direct and important effects on enhancing the heat transfer. Finally, salt and nanofluid sediments were compared. The nanoparticles precipitate faster and more easily under the bubble layer, but less in the salt solution if its dissolution is maintained. The ultrasonic waves were employed at three powers of 30%, 60% and 90%. Finally, the heat transfer coefficient and bubble departure diameter increased as 8.43% and 7.54%, respectively. In addition, the sedimentation decreased by 37.19%. As a result, the waves reduced their deposition by preserving salt dissolution.
Razieh Abedini, Faezeh Najafi, Mohammad Passandideh-Fard, Amir Abdolah, Ali Faezian,
Volume 23, Issue 8 (8-2023)
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In this article, the numerical and experimental investigation of the effect of ultrasonic waves on the heat transfer rate with an increase of the wave amplitude is discussed. Numerical modeling determines the possibility of the investigation of the ultrasonic wave’s effects on fluid flow distribution and heat transfer. For this purpose, a cylindrical tank is considered inside which a spiral heater is placed at a fixed height in the water. In addition, ultrasonic transducers are considered as circular plates under the bottom of the tank. In order to simulate, the ANSYS Fluent software is used and the modeling is accomplished in two stages before and after ultrasonic excitation. To validate the numerical results, they are compared with those of the experiments. For this purpose, an experimental setup is prepared witch consists two coaxial cylinders, a spiral heater kept at a certain height in the water, and five transducers attached to the bottom of the tank. Both experimental and numerical results show that the convection heat transfer coefficient increases with the use of ultrasonic waves with a discrepancy of nearly 4% between the results. By increasing the heat transfer coefficient, the heater surface temperature decreases. The discrepancy between the measured and calculated temperature is about 5%. The velocity and temperature distributions obtained from the numerical results show that using ultrasonic waves enhance the fluid flow mixing which in turn increases the convection heat transfer. The higher the amplitude of the ultrasonic wave, the higher the heat transfer coefficient will result.
Parisa Dehghani, Seyed Mostafa Hosseinalipoor, Habibolah Akbari,
Volume 23, Issue 12 (12-2023)
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To investigate the effect of relative humidity percentage on heat transfer and distribution of droplets in the condensation phenomenon, a test device with the ability to provide and control different environmental conditions was made, and therefore, the hydrophilic (copper) and hydrophobic (Teflon coating on copper) surfaces were measured under controlled environmental conditions. In all the tests, the inlet air flow rate, inlet air temperature, air temperature reaching the test surface, water temperature, water surface height, and test surface temperature were kept constant at specific values using PID control. Each test's relative humidity values of 80, 88, and 96% have been determined and controlled. The results of the transient investigation of heat transfer show that it takes time for the condensation phenomenon to occur, and the higher the surface hydrophilicity and relative humidity, the shorter this time will be. Also, the average heat transfer for 60 minutes was calculated. It showed that the average heat transfer coefficient increases with increasing humidity. Under the same environmental conditions, the heat transfer coefficient on hydrophilic surfaces is higher than on hydrophobic ones. In the graphical analysis of the droplet size, it has been observed that the most oversized droplets on hydrophilic surfaces at relative humidities of 88 and 96% are in the hydraulic diameter range of 0.35 to 0.4, and on hydrophobic surfaces are at relative humidities of 80 and 88% in the hydraulic diameter range of 0.2 to 0.25 mm.
