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INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF HEAT AND MASS TRANSFER
Volume 91, Issue -, Pages 170-177Publisher
PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijheatmasstransfer.2015.07.094
Keywords
Ionic liquid; Thermophysical property; Microfin tube; Heat transfer; Friction factor
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- National Natural Science Foundation of China [51276066]
- Guangdong Natural Science Foundation [2014A030312009]
- key Project of DEGP [2012CXZD0011]
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Ionic liquids (ILs) have thermophysical and chemical properties that may be suitable for use as heat transfer fluids from the low to high temperatures. This paper presents the experimental results of forced convection heat transfer for 1-hexyl-3-methylimidazolium tetrafluoroborate ([HMIM]BF4) IL, in microfin and smooth tubes. The horizontal test section is a counter flow double tube heat exchanger with IL flowing in the inner tube and cooling water flowing in the annulus. In addition to evaluating the forced convection heat transfer, thermophysical properties of [HMIM]BF4 such as thermal conductivity, density, heat capacity, and viscosity were also experimentally measured over the temperature range of 303453 K. The correlations of thermophysical properties were fitted with measured data. The experimental results show that the frictional coefficient and Nusselt number inside the smooth tube agree with those predicted by the Hagen-Poiseuille and Sieder-Tate correlations. In the Reynolds number range of 57-538, the frictional coefficient and Nusselt Number of the microfin tube are 5.6% and 5.4-11.3% higher than those of the smooth tube, respectively. Based on the experimental data, the empirical correlations were developed to calculate the frictional coefficient and convective heat transfer coefficient for the microfin tube under laminar flow condition. (C) 2015 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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