Impact of mixed convective and radiative heat transfer in spiral-coiled tubes
Journal article, 2019

Spiral-coiled tube heat exchangers (SCTHE) have higher heat transfer as compared to the conventional heat transfer devices and are extensively used to extract heat from exhaust gases in the chemical processing industries and also from sunlight for domestic applications. However, no attention has been made to predict heat transfer characteristics considering combined convective and radiative heat transfer in spiral-coiled tubes. In the present study, numerical analysis has been performed to predict fluid flow and heat transfer characteristics by combined forced convection and thermal radiation in spiralcoiled tubes. The P-1 radiation and the renormalized group (RNG) k–e turbulence models have been used to study the effect of thermal radiation and turbulent convection heat transfer in the spiral-coiled tube, respectively, over a wide range of Reynolds numbers (10,000–100,000) and curvature ratios (0.02–0.05). The emissivity and optical thickness have been varied from 0.0 to 1.0 and 0.0 to 8.0, respectively, to investigate the effect of thermal radiation on heat transfer characteristics in spiral-coiled tubes. For the considered Reynolds number range, it is found that the heat transfer is enhanced by approximately 10% when radiation is taken into account. It is found that the heat capacity increased with an increase in optical thickness and wall emissivity. Further, the effect of optical thickness on fully developed flow is observed weak and the average heat transfer coefficient is influenced by the wall emissivity over the entire flow.

p–1 radiation model

spiral-coil tube heat exchangers

emissivity

convective heat transfer

optical thickness

thermal radiation

Author

Naveen Kushwaha

Indian Institute of Technology

Vikash Vikash

Indian Institute of Technology

Vimal Kumar

Indian Institute of Technology

Transactions - ASME : Journal of Heat Transfer

Vol. 141 8 081001

Subject Categories

Energy Engineering

Chemical Engineering

DOI

10.1115/1.4043946

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