Thermohydraulics of Turbulent Flow Through Heat Exchanger Tubes Fitted with Circular-rings and Twisted Tapes

The influences of circular-ring turbulators (CRT) and twisted tape (TT) swirl generators on the heat transfer enhancement, pressure drop and thermal performance factor characteristics in a round tube are reported. The circular-ring turbulators were individually employed and together with the twisted tape swirl generators in the heated section of the tube. Three different pitch ratios (l/D1.0, 1.5, and 2.0) of the CRT and three different twist ratios (y/W 3, 4, and 5) of the TT were introduced. The experiments were conducted using air as the working fluid under a uniform wall heat flux condition, for the Reynolds number between 6000 and 20000. The experimental results reveal that the heat transfer rate, friction factor and thermal performance factor of the combined CRT and TT are considerably higher than those of CRT alone. For the range examined, the increases of mean Nusselt number, friction factor and thermal performance, in the tube equipped with combined devices, respectively, are 25.8%, 82.8% and 6.3% over those in the tube with the CRT alone. The highest thermal performance factor of 1.42 is found for the combined device consisting of the CRT with l/D 1.0 and TT with y/W 3. The correlations of the Nusselt number, friction factor and thermal performance factor of the tubes with combined devices are also developed in terms of Reynolds number, Prandtl number, twist ratio and pitch ratio.     

螺旋隔板三维翅片管传热实验研究与数值模拟

文章对冷却水在换热器管程流动并与壳程的热油逆流换热条件下,对螺旋隔板三维翅片管换热器的传热与压降性能进行了实验研究,并与光滑管进行了对比。在相同壳程Reynolds数下,三维翅片管的壳程Nusselt数是光滑管的2.2—2.9倍,而压降是光滑管的2.3倍左右。采用计算流体力学软件F luent 6.0对螺旋隔板三维翅片管和光滑管换热器进行了数值模拟。结果表明,螺旋流条件下光滑管表面速度矢量均匀、稳定,而三维翅片表面的速度矢量因翅片激发流体而产生湍动和不规则的二次流,从而强化了流体的对流传热。对于螺旋隔板三维翅片管换热器,壳程Nusselt数和压降的数值模拟结果与实验计算值吻合良好,最大偏差分别为6.3%和9.8%。     

三维针翅片管在螺旋板换热器应用传热强化研究

将光滑管外表面进行滚压—犁切复合加工,形成了三维A型针翅片管,应用于连续形的螺旋导流板换热器中,流体在连续形螺旋导流板换热器的壳程中类似于塞状流流动,几乎没有返混和流动死区。在相同压降下,其传热系数比普通的弓形折流板换热器高得多。文章以润滑油作为实验介质,研究了润滑油在螺旋导流板三维A型针翅片管换热器的壳程传热和压降性能,并与光滑管螺旋导流板换热器进行了性能对比。实验结果表明,在相同Reynolds数下,螺旋导流板三维A型针翅片管换热器的Nusselt数和压降△p分别是光滑管螺旋导流板换热器的2.4～2.8倍和1.2～1.4倍。与光滑管螺旋导流板换热器相比,螺旋导流板三维A型针翅片管换热器的传热性能的提高远高于压降的提高,证明在螺旋流条件下,三维A型针翅片管具有很好的传热强化性能。     

圆形管中填充带圆钉的螺旋状金属带时的传热和流动阻力研究(英文)

This paper deals with the experimental investigation on Nusselt number, friction factor and thermal enhancement factor of a double pipe heat exchanger equipped with twisted tape consisting wire nails (WN-TT) and plain twisted tapes (P-TT) with three different twist ratios of y 2.0, 4.4 and 6.0. Test runs are conducted using the water as the working fluid with Reynolds number range between 2000 and 12000 for WN-TT and P-TT. It is found that Nusselt number, friction factor and thermal enhancement factor in the tube equipped with WN-TT appreciably higher than those in the tube fitted with P-TT and plain tube. Over the range considered Nusselt number, friction factor and thermal enhancement factor in a tube with WN-TT are respectively, 1.08 to 1.31, 1.1 to 1.75 and 1.05 to 1.13 times of those in tube with P-TT. The better performance of WN-TT is due to combined effects of the following factors: (1) common swirling flow generated by P-TT, (2) additional turbulence offered by the wire nails. Empirical correlations for Nusselt number, friction factor and thermal enhancement factor are also formulated from the experimental results of WN-TT and P-TT.     

Thermal performance of tubular heat exchanger with multiple twisted-tape inserts

The paper presents an experimental investigation on enhanced heat transfer and pressure loss characteristics by using single, double, triple, and quadruple twisted-tape inserts in a round tube having a uniform heat-fluxed wal . The investigation has been conducted in the heat exchanger tube inserted with various twisted-tape numbers for co-and counter-twist arrangements for the turbulent air flow, Reynolds number (Re) from 5300 to 24000. The typical single twisted-tape inserts at two twist ratios, y/w=4 and 5, are used as the base case, while the other multiple twisted-tape inserts are at y/w=4 only. The experimental results of heat transfer and pressure drop in terms of Nusselt number (Nu) and friction factor (f), respectively, reveal that Nu increases with the increment of Re and of twisted-tape number. The values of Nu for the inserted tube are in a range of 1.15–2.12 times that for the plain tube while f is 1.9–4.1 times. The thermal enhancement factor of the inserted tube under similar pumping power is evaluated and found to be above unity except for the single and the double co-twisted tapes. The quadruple counter-twisted tape insert provides the maximum thermal performance.     

Prediction of Nusselt Number and Friction Factor of Water-Al2O3 Nanofluid Flow in Shell-and-Tube Heat Exchanger with Helical Baffles

Heat transfer and flow field of water-Al₂O₃ nanofluid were simulated three-dimensionally in the shell-side of shell-and-tube heat exchanger with helical baffles. The effects of Reynolds number and volume fraction on heat transfer and pressure drop were evaluated. Increasing the volume fraction and Reynolds number intensified both heat transfer and pressure drop. Reduction of the Reynolds number increased the friction factor, but no considerable change was observed in the friction factor by increasing the volume fraction at constant Reynolds number. Heat transfer of the nanofluid revealed greater dependency on the volume fraction of particles at lower Reynolds numbers. Models of Nusselt number and friction factor were obtained in the heat exchanger in terms of Reynolds number and volume fraction using neural network. The neural network predicted the output variables with great accuracy.     

螺旋折流板换热器三角区漏流阻塞的实验研究

目前普遍使用的螺旋折流板换热器壳程的一个螺距主要采用4块平面折流板结构,但在相邻两块折流板的直边搭接处存在顶角相对的两个三角漏流区,使壳程流体偏离理想的螺旋流,严重影响了换热器的性能。采用折面折流板结构,可以封闭原始折流板之间的外侧三角漏流区,使壳程流体更接近连续的螺旋流动。实验结果表明,采用折面折流板代替原始的平面折流板后,换热器总传热系数增加6.7%～19.1%,平均增大16.9%,表明此折面折流板能有效提高螺旋折流板换热器的换热性能。虽然壳程压降也随之增大,但带来的泵耗功率增量非常有限。换热器的热性能因子均大于1.0,平均值为1.071,表明结构改进后的换热器,其综合性能平均提高7.1%。基于实验数据,拟合了结构改进前后的换热器壳程传热系数和阻力系数的相关实验关联式。研究结果对于换热器的节能优化具有重要的指导意义。     

内置螺旋弹簧换热管内流动与传热三维数值模拟

为研究内置螺旋弹簧换热管单管强化传热原理,采用Fluent软件对内置螺旋弹簧换热管内流体流动与传热特性进行数值模拟,考察了弹簧的应用对管内流场、压降和换热性能的影响,并分别取螺旋弹簧节距p分别为2 mm、4 mm、5 mm初步研究了弹簧的节距对强化传热效果的影响。模拟结果显示：弹簧管内流体呈螺旋流动状态,管壁附近流体切向速度和径向速度有一定程度的提高,从而加剧了管内流体的混合及边界层的扰动,充分换热,弹簧管进出口温度差较光管有所增加,最高增加了0.9 ℃;相同雷诺数条件下,内置螺旋弹簧换热管Nu数均高于光管,而压降和阻力系数相比光管有明显增加,随着弹簧节距减小换热增强而摩擦阻力系数增加。     

Heat transfer augmentation in a circular tube with winglet vortex generators☆

The article presents the influence of winglet vortex generators (WVGs) placed in the core flow area on ther-mal performance enhancement of a tube heat exchanger. The experiment was carried out in a uniform wall heat-fluxed tube by varying turbulent alrflow for Reynolds number ranging from 5300 to 24000. In the pres-ent work, the WVGs with an attack angle of 30° were inserted into the test tube at four different winglet pitch ratios (RP=P/D) and three winglet-width or blockage ratios (RB=e/D). The experimental results at various RP and RB values were evaluated and compared with those for smooth tube and tubes with twist-ed tape or wire coil. The measurement reveals that the WVGs enhance considerably the heat transfer and friction loss above the plaln tube, wire coil and twisted tape. The Nusselt number and friction factor increase with the increment of RB and Re but with the decreasing RP. The average Nusselt numbers for the WVGs with various RB are in the range of 2.03–2.34 times above the plaln tube. The thermal performance for the WVGs is found to be much higher than that for the wire coil and twisted tape and is in a range of 1.35–1.59. Also, a numerical investigation is conducted to study the flow structure and heat transfer enhancement mecha-nisms in the winglet-inserted tube.     

折面螺旋折流板换热器的流动传热性能

针对现有平面螺旋折流板换热器的相邻折流板与壳体间存在的三角漏流区,提出了一种折面螺旋折流板换热器。基于实验研究分析了折面螺旋折流板换热器的螺旋角和搭接度对流动传热性能的影响,并拟合了壳程对流传热和阻力系数的实验关联式。结果表明,当壳程体积流量相同时,随着螺旋角的减小,折面螺旋折流板换热器的壳程总压降增加,壳程管束压降增加,壳程膜传热系数提升,综合性能增强;相同壳程体积流量下,随着搭接度的增加,壳程总压降也增加,壳程膜传热系数增加,综合性能提高。实验研究表明螺旋角18°、搭接度50%的折面螺旋折流板换热器流动传热性能最佳。将折面螺旋折流板换热器的螺旋角和搭接度作为修正因子拟合到了实验关联式中,对比发现实验值与Nu实验关联式计算值的平均相对误差为1.13%,与f实验关联式的平均相对误差为6.84%,说明了拟合的正确性和可靠性。研究结果为折面螺旋折流板换热器的设计提供了理论指导。     

扭转流换热器结构参数对流场和温度场的影响

建立扭转流换热器和弓形折流板换热器两种周期性全截面模型,采用计算流体力学方法对两种换热器的传热系数、阻力、综合性能进行了数值研究。分析了扭转流换热器管束支撑物类梯形导流板结构参数对换热器传热和流阻性能的影响。结果表明：导流板倾角和相邻两组导流板间距对扭转流换热器传热性能的影响显著,导流板宽度的影响次之,每组导流板的数量的影响较小。扭转流换热器优化结构,压降较弓形折流板换热器降低42.5%~46.9%,综合性能提高7.2%~14.1%。研究结果为管壳式换热器结构优化和强化传热提供了新方案。     

扭曲三叶管传热与流阻性能的数值研究

扭曲管换热器是一种新型高效换热器。在扭曲管强化传热机理研究的基础上,提出了一种新的扭曲管管型--三叶管。验证了标准k-ω湍流模型在圆管及扭曲椭圆管计算中的精确度,并采用该湍流模型对扭曲三叶管Re在4000～20000范围内的传热和流阻性能进行了研究。计算结果表明,扭曲三叶管的Nusselt数比扭曲椭圆管大,虽然压差增大较多但综合传热性能比扭曲椭圆管高。这是由于扭曲三叶管特殊的三叶区结构以及过渡区曲率的变化,使得三叶管内的螺旋流动比椭圆管更为复杂,速度场与温度梯度场的协同程度更好。随着Reynolds数的增大扭曲三叶管的压差及Nusselt数都逐渐增大,但综合性能逐渐降低,在低Reynolds数下扭曲三叶管的强化传热效果较为明显。内切圆直径及过渡圆弧直径越小,扭曲三叶管的综合性能越好,其中内切圆直径的影响更为显著。     

双螺旋结构螺旋折流板换热器试验研究

螺旋折流板换热器中壳程的流动方式与单弓形结构下具有很大的差别,在采用扇形板拼接而成的螺旋折流板结构中采用双螺旋结构来布置更多的折流板,减少流体在扇形板拼接处的漏流,使壳程流体流动更接近于平推流.分别以重柴油和水作为壳程介质,对普通螺旋折流板以及双螺旋结构螺旋折流板的传热性能、阻力性能进行试验研究,发现双螺旋结构在相同Re时,阻力提高9.9%和6.15%,Nu提高14.12%和11.72%,同时可以增大单位压降的Nu.     

Pilot experimental study on shell and tube heat exchangers with small-angles helical baffles

In this paper, the experimental comparisons of shell side thermodynamic and hydraulics performance are made among three helical baffles heat exchangers and one segmental baffles heat exchanger. The experiment scale is larger than the previous experimental setup as the diameter of test heat exchangers are 500 mm and the effective tube length are 6 m; the experiment mainly focuses on the small helical angle scheme as the helical angle ranges from 7° to 25°. Among all the four heat exchangers, both the shell side heat transfer rate and the shell side pressure drop peak when helical angle equals 7°, and the shell side heat transfer rate per unit pressure drop at this angle is the smallest. This phenomenon could be easily illustrated as the concept ‘fluid-flow distance’ is presented. At last, the correlations for the shell side Nusselt number and friction factor are presented as a reference.     

扰流柱协同螺旋片强化套管换热器壳侧换热

对于内管外壁安装有螺旋片的套管换热器的壳侧,在螺旋片所形成的螺旋通道中心,沿螺旋方向周期性地布置扰流柱以进一步提高其换热性能,对这种扰流柱协同螺旋片强化的换热器的换热特性进行了实验研究,应用场协同理论分析了其强化机理。结果表明,在Re=4000～14000范围内,扰流柱协同螺旋片强化的换热器的传热系数为相同螺距下只安装螺旋片的换热器的1.53～2.53倍,为光滑内管换热器的3.08～4.87倍。在相同质量流量、相同压降及相同泵功条件下,扰流柱协同螺旋片强化的换热器的综合换热性能明显好于相同螺距下只安装螺旋片的换热器及光滑内管换热器;在相同压降及相同泵功条件下,保持螺距不变,安装扰流柱比螺距减小一半的综合换热性能更好;单位螺距内安装奇数个扰流柱比安装偶数个扰流柱略好。扰流柱的安装增大了径向速度,使温度场与速度场的协同效果更好,从而提高了换热效果。     

Numerical investigation of grooves effects on the thermal performance of helically grooved shell and coil tube heat exchanger

Heat exchangers are integral parts of important industrial units such as petrochemicals, medicine and power plants. Due to the importance of systems energy consumption, different modifications have been applied on heat exchangers in terms of size and structure. In this study, a novel heat exchanger with helically grooved annulus shell and helically coiled tube was investigated by numerical simulation. Helically grooves with the same pitch of the helical coil tube and different depth are created on the inner and outer wall of annulus shell to improve the thermal performance of heat exchanger. In the first section, thermal performance of the shell and coil heat exchanger with the helical grooves on its outer shell wall was compared with same but without helical grooves. At the second section, helically grooves created on both outer and inner wall of the annulus shell with different groove depths. The results showed that the heat exchanger with grooves on both inner and outer shell wall has better thermal performance up to 20% compared to the heat exchanger with grooves on only outer shell wall. The highest thermal performance achieves at lower flow rates and higher groove depths whereas the pressure drop did not increase significantly.     

Heat transfer and friction factor of Therminol liquid phase heat transfer fluid in a ribbed tube

Experiments and simulations on flow and heat transfer behavior of Therminol-55 liquid phase heat transfer fluid have been conducted in a ribbed tube with the outer diameter and inner diameter 25.0 and 20.0 mm,pitch and rib height of 4.5 and 1.0 mm.respectively.Experimental results show that the heat transfer and thermal performance of Therminol-55 liquid phase heat transfer fluid in the ribbed tube are considerably improved compared to those of the smooth tube.The Nusselt number increase with the increase of Reynolds number.The increase in heat transfer rate of the ribbed tube has a mean value of 2.24 times.Also,the pressure drop results reveal that the average friction factor of the ribbed tube is in a range of 2.4 and 2.8 times over the smooth tube.Numerical simulations of three-dimensional flow behavior of Therminol-55 liquid phase heat transfer fluid are carried out using three different turbulence models in the ribbed tube.The numerical results show that the heat transfer of ribbed tube is improved because vortices are generated behind ribs,which produce some disruptions to fluid flow and enhance heat transfer compared with smooth tube.The numerical results prove that the ribbed tube can improve heat transfer and fluid flow performances of Therminol liquid phase heat transfer fluid.     

螺旋隔板套管换热器壳程传热与压降的数值模拟

以水-润滑油换热为对象,对螺旋隔板套管换热器的壳程传热与压降性能进行了实验研究与数值模拟。通过威尔逊图解法获得了管程的传热系数,并计算出了壳程的努塞尔特准数。采用Fluent软件模拟了润滑油在螺旋隔板套管换热器壳程层流流动时的流场、温度场以及传热与压降性能。结果表明,流体在螺旋隔板换热器的壳程流动均匀,在隔板附近没有返混和流动死区,但温度梯度最大。在相同雷诺常数下,壳程的努塞尔特准数和压降模拟值分别比实验值高1.3%～8%和4%～38.1%,模拟值与实验值吻合较好。     

Enhanced heat transfer in a heat exchanger square-duct with discrete V-finned tape inserts☆

The article presents an experimental and numerical study on thermal performance enhancement in a constant heat-fluxed square-duct inserted diagonal y with 45° discrete V-finned tapes (DFT). The experiments were carried out by varying the airflow rate through the tested square duct with DFT inserts for Reynolds number from 4000 to 25000. The effect of the DFT with V-tip pointing upstream at various relative fin heights and pitches on heat transfer and pressure drop characteristics was experimentally investigated. Both the heat transfer and pressure drop were presented in terms of Nusselt number and friction factor respectively. Several V-finned tape characteristics were introduced such as fin-to duct-height ratio or blockage ratio (RB=e/H=0.075, 0.1, 0.15 and 0.2), fin pitch to duct height ratio (RP=P/H=0.5, 1.0, 1.5 and 2.0) and fin attack angle,α=45°. The experimental results reveal that the heat transfer and friction factor values with DFT inserts increase with the increment of RB but the decrease of RP. The inserted square-duct at RB=0.2 and RP=0.5 provides the highest heat transfer and friction factor while the one with RB=0.1 and RP=1.5 yields the highest thermal performance. Also, a numerical simulation was conducted to investigate the flow structure and heat transfer mechanism inside the tested duct with DFT inserts.     

装填有矩形切口螺旋带的管中的湍动传热和压降(英文)

Heat transfer, friction factor and thermal enhancement factor characteristics of a double pipe heat exchanger fitted with square-cut twisted tapes (STT) and plain twisted tapes (PTT) are investigated experimentally using the water as working fluid. The tapes (STT and PTT) have three twist ratios ( , 4.4 and 6.0) and the Reynolds number ranges from 2000 to 12000. The experimental results reveal that heat transfer rate, friction factor and thermal enhancement factor in the tube equipped with STT are significantly higher than those fitted with PTT. The additional disturbance and secondary flow in the vicinity of the tube wall generated by STT are higher compared to that induced by the PTT is referred as the reason for better performance. Over the range considered, the Nusselt number, friction factor and thermal enhancement factor in a tube with STT are respectively, 1.03 to 1.14, 1.05 to 1.25 and 1.02 to 1.06 times of those in tube with PTT. An empirical correlation is also formulated to match with experimental data of Nusselt number and friction factor for STT and PTT.