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Pressure drop and convective heat transfer of water and nanofluids in a double-pipe helical heat exchanger

In English

Författare

Summary, in English

Pressure drop and convective heat transfer characteristics of water and five alumina/water nanofluids of weight concentrations from 0.78% wt. to 7.04% wt. were experimentally investigated for both laminar flow and turbulent flow inside a double-pipe helically coiled heat exchanger. Effect of nanoparticles on the critical Reynolds number is negligible. A new correlation was developed for laminar flow in helically coiled tubes, which can predict the experimental heat transfer data very well. For turbulent flow, the Seban and McLaughlin correlation can accurately predict the thermal behavior of water and nanofluids when nanofluid properties are taken into account. For both laminar flow and turbulent flow, no anomalous heat transfer enhancement was found. The heat transfer enhancement of the nanofluids compared to water is from 0.37% to 3.43% according to the constant flow velocity basis. Figure of merit based on the constant Reynolds number can be misleading and should not be used for heat transfer enhancement comparison. Additional possible effects of nanoparticles, e.g., Brownian motion, thermophoresis and diffusiophoresis, on the convective heat transfer characteristics of the nanofluids are insignificant compared to the dominant thermophysical properties of the nanofluids. No multiphase phenomenon was found and the tested alumina nanofluids can be treated as homogeneous fluids. (C) 2013 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.

Avdelning/ar

Publiceringsår

2013

Språk

Engelska

Sidor

266-274

Publikation/Tidskrift/Serie

Applied Thermal Engineering

Volym

60

Issue

1-2

Dokumenttyp

Artikel i tidskrift

Förlag

Elsevier

Ämne

  • Energy Engineering

Nyckelord

  • Nanofluid
  • Pressure drop
  • Heat transfer
  • Helically coiled tube
  • Heat
  • exchanger
  • Figure of merit

Status

Published

ISBN/ISSN/Övrigt

  • ISSN: 1359-4311