Investigation Of Convective Heat Transfer In A Heat Exchanger

Shahril, Muhammad Azrul Amri (2019) Investigation Of Convective Heat Transfer In A Heat Exchanger. Project Report. UTeM, Melaka, Malaysia. (Submitted)

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Abstract

The main purposes of this study is to simulate the heat transfer rate of convection for the two types of tube bank arrangements, which is the inline and staggered arrangement by using the ANSYS Fluent software. The results from the simulation that are used the cross-flow heat exchanger for both arrangements has been discussed in this report, which is by presenting the temperature, velocity and pressure profiles. From the simulation results, the comparison of performance heat transfer rate for both arrangements also determined in this study by using the air temperature difference to indicate the heat transfer for each the arrangements. The performances of both arrangements show that the staggered tube bank arrangement has a higher heat transfer rate compared to the inline tube bank arrangement. The result from simulation also has been validated by comparing with the experimental result and from the comparison, the results from both approaches are in good arrangements.

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