Heat Transfer Effectiveness and Coefficient of Pressure Drop on the Shell Side of a Staggered Elliptical Tubes Bank

Abstract:

The effectiveness of heat transfer and the pressure drop coefficient of staggered elliptical tube banks are studied experimentally. The bank consists of 11 elliptical tubes of 0.75 equivalent diameter in an arrangement of 4-3-4. The major and the minor sub-axis of each tube are 24.70 mm and 12.35 mm respectively, and therefore the aspect ratio (AR) of the tube is 2.0. The geometric parameters of the bank are S_T = 24.70 mm, S_L = 37.00 mm and minimum frontal area B = 12.35 mm. Seven mid-tubes are internally heated by electrical heater of 69.6 Watt each. Experiment is conducted in a sub sonic wind tunnel and run with the wind velocities of 1 m/s 12.6 m/s which correspond with Reynolds number of = 346-6904. The results show that the effectiveness (ε) varied from 2144.44 to 15.26. It decreases exponentially at low Reynolds numbers and tended asymptotically at higher Reynolds number. The coefficient of pressure drop (CΔp) ranges from 7.21 to 4.41 decreases continuously at low Reynolds number and asymptotic at higher one.

• Periodical: Applied Mechanics and Materials (Volume 493)
• Pages: 134-139
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/AMM.493.134
• Online since: January 2014
• Authors: Utomo Kukuh W. Budi, Kamal Samsul, Suhanan Suhanan, I. Made Suardjaja
• Keywords: Aspect Ratio, Coefficient of Pressure Drop, Effectiveness, Geometric Parameter, Staggered Elliptical Tube Bank

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