Journal
CANADIAN JOURNAL OF CHEMICAL ENGINEERING
Volume 100, Issue 8, Pages 1954-1964Publisher
WILEY
DOI: 10.1002/cjce.24267
Keywords
forced convection; heat transfer characteristic; nanofluids
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- National Natural Science Foundation of China [51606214]
- Natural Science Foundation of Jiangsu Province [BK20181359]
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The study showed that TiO2-H2O nanofluids and corrugated pipes significantly improved the heat transfer efficiency of double-pipe heat exchangers.
In this study, the heat transfer and flow characteristics of TiO2-H2O nanofluids with TiO2 mass fractions of 0.0, 0.1, 0.3, and 0.5 wt.% in corrugated and smooth double-pipe heat exchangers were compared using numerical simulations. The results demonstrated that TiO2-H2O nanofluids effectively enhanced the heat transfer compared to deionized water, and that the heat exchange capacity gradually increased with the TiO2 mass fraction. The corrugated pipe heat exchanger disturbed the fluid flow on both the shell side and pipe side, breaking the boundary layer and creating vortices in the corrugated zone. This provided a higher heat transfer capability than the smooth double-pipe heat exchanger, but also increased the fluid flow resistance in the pipe. In general, the use of nanofluids and corrugated pipes was found to significantly improve the heat transfer efficiency of the double-pipe heat exchanger.
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