Design of Shell and Tube Type Heat Exchanger Using CFD Tools | |
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( Volume 3 Issue 7,July 2017 ) OPEN ACCESS | |
Author(s): | |
Devvrat Verma, Mukesh Kumar Verma | |
Abstract: | |
In present day shell and tube heat exchanger is the most common type heat exchanger widely used in oil refinery and other large chemical process, because it suits high pressure application. The process in solving CFD consists of modeling and meshing the basic geometry of shell and tube heat exchanger using CFD package ANSYS 13.0. The objective of the project is design of shell and tube heat exchanger with helical baffle and study the flow and temperature field inside the shell using ANSYS software tools. The heat exchanger contains 7 tubes and 800 mm length shell diameter 90 mm. The helix angle of helical baffle will be varied from 00 to 20°. In CFD will show how the temperature varies in shell due to different helix angle and flow rate. The flow pattern in the shell side of the heat exchanger with continuous helical baffles was forced to be rotational and helical due to the geometry of the continuous helical baffles, which results in a significant increase in heat transfer coefficient per unit pressure drop in the heat exchanger. There is a wide application of coiled heat exchanger in the field of industrial applications for its enhanced heat transfer characteristics and compact structure. Lots of researches are going on to improve the heat transfer rate of the helical coil heat exchanger. Here, in this work, an analysis has been done for a tube-in-tube helical heat exchanger with constant heat transfer coefficient with parallel flow. There are various factors present that may affect the heat transfer characteristics of the heat exchanger. The flow pattern in the shell side of the heat exchanger with continuous helical baffles was forced to be rotational and helical due to the geometry of the continuous helical baffles, which results in a significant increase in heat transfer coefficient per unit pressure drop in the heat exchanger. There is a wide application of coiled heat exchanger in the field of industrial applications for its enhanced heat transfer characteristics and compact structure. Lots of researches are going on to improve the heat transfer rate of the helical coil heat exchanger. Here, in this work, an analysis has been done for a tube-in-tube helical heat exchanger with constant heat transfer coefficient with parallel flow. There are various factors present that may affect the heat transfer characteristics of the heat exchanger. |
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