madhu K s
@rrce.org
Assistant professor
RajaRajeswari College of Engineering
EDUCATION
M Tech. (P.hD)
RESEARCH, TEACHING, or OTHER INTERESTS
Mechanical Engineering, Multidisciplinary
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Kurapalli Shivareddy Madhu, Ramareddy Shankarareddy, and Shantappa Gurubasappa Sangashetty
Akademia Baru Publishing
The growing demand for efficient heat exchangers has promoted extensive research in exploring advanced heat transfer fluids and novel geometries. This paper investigates the heat transfer and pressure drop characteristics in helical coil heat exchanger employing water-based TiO2 as nanofluid. The utilization of nanofluids offers promising enhancements in thermal conductivity and convective heat transfer in heat exchanger applications. The effect of nanofluid concentration and flow rate on heat transfer and pressure drop with varying helical coil diameter performance is investigated. Experimental tests were conducted using a heat exchanger with different helical coil pipe diameters of 9.53mm, 12.7mm and 15.88mm with constant pitch of 30mm and varying concentrations of TiO2 nanoparticles in water (ranging from 0.1% to 0.5% by volume). The heat transfer coefficient and pressure drop were measured at different operating conditions. The results shows that the addition of TiO2 nanoparticles to water significantly enhanced the heat transfer performance in the helical coil heat exchanger. There is an enhancement in heat transfer coefficient with increasing nanofluid concentration and with increase in pipe diameter. The maximum enhancement in heat transfer coefficient is observed at nanofluid concentration of 0.5% and for pipe diameter of 15.88 mm. However, there is increase in pressure drop with increase in nanofluid concentration and with decreasing pipe diameter. The pressure drop found to be higher for nanofluids compared to pure water. The maximum pressure drop is observed at a concentration of 0.5% and for pipe diameter 9.53mm. In conclusion, the use of a water-based TiO2 nanofluid in a helical coil heat exchanger offers improved heat transfer performance compared to pure water. However, the pressure drop also increases with nanofluid concentration and decreasing pipe diameter. Therefore, a trade-off between heat transfer enhancement and pressure drop should be considered in the design and operation of such heat exchangers.
K S Madhu*, , Dr. Shankara Reddy, Dr. S G Sanga Shetty, , and
Blue Eyes Intelligence Engineering and Sciences Engineering and Sciences Publication - BEIESP
To Study on rate of heat transfer in heat exchanger using helical coils has been studied by many researchers. There is less published literature available on varying pitch helical coil heat exchanger and detail characteristics of helical coil varying pitch by keeping constant curvature ratio considering heat exchange between fluid to fluid heat exchanger for laminar flow condition not available in the present available literature. Hence in present study three different coils with varying pitches are used to investigate the heat transfer characteristics of a Helical Coil Heat Exchanger. Hence coil of 25mm, 30mm, 35mm are used by keeping constant curvature ratio (=0.0667), experiment is conducted to study the influence of varying pitch on effectiveness, heat transfer rate, over all heat transfer co-efficient and Nusselt Number. The experiments is conducted in horizontal counter steady flow condition and changing the flow rate of hot fluid, pitch of helical coil heat exchanger. The results show that the varying pitch of helical coil heat exchanger has influence on heat transfer characteristics. The effectiveness of the helical coil heat exchanger is decreases with increase in mass flow rate of the hot fluid inside helical tube for varying pitch considered for study. The heat transfer rate of the helical coil heat exchanger is increases with increase in Dean Number of the hot fluid inside helical tube for varying pitch considered for study. The overall heat transfer coefficient increases with increasing hot water mass flow rate. The Nussult Number at different dean number increases for increasing helical coil pitch however the trend of average heat transfer rate for increasing M Number for varying pitch observed similar. By increasing the coil pitch of helical coil heat exchanger decreases Nussult Number, inside overall heat transfer coefficient, heat transfer rate and effectiveness.