GAO Xinghui, ZHOU Guoyan, TU Shandong. Study on effects of structural parameters on shell-side heat transfer enhancement in spiral wound heat exchangers[J]. CIESC Journal, 2019, 70(7): 2456-2471
GAO Xinghui, ZHOU Guoyan, TU Shandong. Study on effects of structural parameters on shell-side heat transfer enhancement in spiral wound heat exchangers[J]. CIESC Journal, 2019, 70(7): 2456-2471DOI: 10.11949/0438-1157.20181534.
Study on effects of structural parameters on shell-side heat transfer enhancement in spiral wound heat exchangers
Due to the lack of internal flow field information
the influence of structural parameters on fluid flow is not clear
which makes the heat transfer mechanism of the shell-tube heat exchanger shell side unclear and hinders the further standardization and generalization of its design criteria. Aiming at the above problems
geometry modeling and corresponding numerical simulations were carried out for the shell side flow of spiral wound heat exchangers. The feasibility and accuracy of these modellings were verified by comparing with experimental data in the literature. Then the flow field and characteristics of shell side fluid were investigated in detail. The heat transfer enhancement mechanism was further discussed based on the analysis of the influences of key structural parameters on the heat transfer and resistance performance. The results show that the fluid flow on the shell side can be described more accurately by using Realizable
k
-
ε
turbulence model. The Nusselt number increases linearly with the increase of the Reynolds number in a log-log coordinate system
whi
le the friction factor
f
decreases linearly. The Nusselt number increases as the results of increased winding tube diameter
d
and average winding diameter
D
and decreased pitch
S
. But it was opposite for the friction factor
f
. The heat transfer and resistance performance of the shell side are mostly affected by the winding tube diameter
d
and the average winding diameter
D
does the least. Increased winding tube diameter
d
and average winding diameter
D
will break the boundary layer of the fluid flow. Then the fluid disturbance increases and hence the temperature increases faster. It is beneficial to enhance heat transfer on shell side. While increased pitch
S
will make the fluid flow much more smoothly
which causes velocity boundary layer to thicken. Thus flow resistance and temperature rising rate are reduced
it is not good for enhancement of heat transfer on shell side.
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