Performance Analysis of Spiral Tube Heat Exchanger
Jay J. Bhavsar1, V K. Matawala2, S.B.Dixit3
1Jay J. Bhavsar, Mechanical Department, GTU, S.V.M.I.T. Bharuch, City Navsari, India.
2V K. Matawala, Head of Mechanical Department, College S.V.M.I.T. Bharuch, City Bharuch, India.
3S.B.Dixit, Mechanical Department, College GEC. Surat, City Surat, India.
Manuscript received on March 22, 2013. | Revised Manuscript received on April 13, 2013. | Manuscript published on April 30, 2013. | PP: 684-687 | Volume-2, Issue-4, April 2013. | Retrieval Number: D1593042413/2013©BEIESP
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Abstract: In the present study, the performance of the spiral tube heat exchanger can be carried out. The heat exchanger consists of a shell and tube unit. Each coil is fabricated by bending a 12 mm diameter straight copper tube into a spiral coil tube of four turns. Cold water and hot oil are used as working fluids in shell side and tube side, respectively. The experiments are done at the cold water and hot oil mass flow rates ranging between 0.075 and 0.25 kg/s, and between 0.008 and 0.04 kg/s, respectively. The inlet temperatures of cold and hot water are between 29 and 37 °C, and between 70 and 56 °C, respectively. The cold water entering the heat exchanger at the shell inlet side and outer from the shell outside. The hot water enters the heat exchanger at the inner tube side and flows along the outside of the tube. The effects of the inlet conditions of both working fluids flowing through the test section on the heat transfer characteristics are discussed.
Keywords: A spiral tube heat exchangers, Result and Discussion.