Ijraset Journal For Research in Applied Science and Engineering Technology
Authors: Navneet Kumar, Vijaykant Pandey
DOI Link: https://doi.org/10.22214/ijraset.2022.47069
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The recovery of waste heat has been a topic of concern for large-scale industrial companies for several decades. This recovery not only makes an operation more environment friendly, but it also helps to cut costs. In addition to this, it can reduce the amount of resources needed to power a facility. Many industries have implemented different methods of waste heat recovery. In this present paper the efforts are made to understand that how to compare the heat transfer rate in Cone shaped coiled tube heat exchanger using CuO Nano fluid with Water and Ethylene glycol as a base fluid in Cone shaped Heat Exchanger with the help of CFD on aluminium tube. Cone Shaped coil was fabricated by bending 500 mm length of aluminium tube having 10mm tube diameter, 50 mm pitch coil diameter, 25mm pitch and tapered angle 20. The comparison of pressure drop and temperature variation between different mass flow rate with water and ethylene glycol as its base fluid in aluminium tube found in this analysis. The result indicates that the CuO nanofluid with ethylene glycol as a base fluid at 0.02m/s mass flow rate have maximum pressure drop and also have minimum temperature variation compare with other mass flow rate.
I. INTRODUCTION
In the era of growing population of world, per capita income along with demand for fresh and processed food and drinks is increasing enormously resulting in critical need in effective process technologies to produce them. Right nowadays, half of the world‘s inhabitant‘s lives in a town or city and this can be expected to be 9 billion people on the planet by 2050. Processed nutrients and liquid refreshment from name-brand manufacturers, packed to suit the needs of customers, are in just as high request as fresh products – particularly among urban buyers. Heat exchange is a key element that points on these products‘ journey to the person who lastly consumes. Cooling is vital but not sufficient alone; in addition, loss of liquid and vitamins must be efficiently prevented. The heat exchanger meets our standards. In awe of energy-efficiency, air throw and efficiency. This is an important accessibility feature. Food distribution centers, warehouses, invention halls and hyper markets require enormous cooling capacity. The heat exchanger can be upgraded to perform heat transfer in an active and passive manner and heat transfer in a pressurized manner. Active skills include external forces. electric fields and surface vibrations, etc. The passive method requires fluid flow behavior and clear geometry. Curved tubes are used for transferring of heat improvement procedures, relatively a lot of heat transfer applications. Helical coils are distinguished coiled tubes which have been used in multiplicity of solicitations e.g. heat recovery, air-conditioning and refrigeration schemes, chemical reactors and dairy practices. Helical coil heat exchanger is the modern improvement of heat exchangers, to fulfill the industrial demand. A helical coil are necessary for various heat exchangers, nuclear reactors and in chemical engineering, because of large quantity of heat is transferring in a small space with high heat transmission rates and slight residence time dispersals even it suffers through a disadvantage of larger pressure drop. Pressure drop features are essential for calculating fluid effect to overwhelmed pressure drops and for arrangement of necessary mass flow rates. The pressure drop also depends on the curvature of the pipe. The curvature creates a secondary flow arrangement perpendicular to the primary axial flow path. This secondary flow has a negligible ability to increase the heat transfer allocated to the mixing of the liquid. The intensity of the secondary flow is set in the tube. This is the value of the diameter of the pipe and the diameter of the coil. The force that occurs due to the curvature of the pipe and promotes secondary flow by increasing the rate of heat transfer is called centrifugal force.
A. Applications Of Helical Coil
Applications of helical coil heat exchangers in various heat transfer applications are:
B. Nano Fluid
Now a day, it is seen that the liquid coolants which are used today, they have very poor thermal conductivity (with the omission of liquid metal, which cannot be used at most of the relevant useful temperature ranges). For example, water is evenly poor in heat conduction than copper, in the case with engine coolants, the oils, and organic coolants. The liquid having thermal conductivity and it will be limited by the natural restriction on creating turbulence or increasing area. To overcome this problem the suspension of solid in cooling liquid is a better option and a new fluid will be made which is used to increase the thermal conduction behaviour of cooling fluids.
Nanofluid are fluid particles which are a lesser amount even a μ (nearly 10-9 times smaller) in diameter and very reactive and effective material which can be used to rise factor like rate of reaction, thermal conductivity of some metal or material are that much reactive and offered four possible methods in nano fluids which may contribute to thermal conduction.
The Brownian motion of nano particles is too slow to transfer heat over a nano fluid. This mechanism works well only when the particle collecting has both the positive and negative effects of thermal conductivity which is gained indirectly through convection.
II. LITERATURE REVIEW
Helical coil is very compact in structure and it possess high heat transfer coefficient that why helical coils heat exchangers are widely used. In literature it has been informed that heat transfer rate of helical coil is larger than straight tube.
III. COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS
Computational fluid dynamics, as the name implies it is a subject that deals with computational approach to fluid dynamics with numerical solution of the equations which bring about the flow of the fluid and although it is also called computational fluid dynamics; it does not just deal with the equations of the fluid flow, it is also generic enough to be able to solve simultaneously together the equations that direct the energy transfer and as well the equations that determine the chemical reaction rates and how the chemical reaction proceeds and mass transfer takes place; all these things can be tackled together in an identical format. So, this outline enables us to deal with a very complex flow circumstances in reasonably fast time, such that for a particular set of conditions, an engineer will be capable to simulate and see how the flow is taking place and what kind of temperature distribution there is and what kind of products are made and where they are formed, so that we can make changes to the parameters that are under his control to modify the way that these things are happening. So, in that case CFD becomes a great tool of design for an engineer. It is also a great tool for an analysis for an examination of a reactor or equipment which is not functioning well because in typical industrial applications.
IV. METHODOLOGY
A. Pre Processing
a. Type of Solver: Pick the solver for the problem from Pressure Based and density based solver.
b. Physical model: Choose the required physical model for the problem i.e. laminar, turbulent, energy, multiphase, etc.
c. Material Property: Choose the Material property of flowing fluid.
d. Boundary Condition: Define the desired boundary condition for the problem i.e. velocity, mass flow rate, temperature, heat flux etc.
B. Solution
Post Processing
For viewing and clarification of result, this can be viewed in various formats like graph, value, animation etc.
CFD analysis of helical coil heat exchanger by using ANSYS 18.2
Pre-processing:
CAD Model: Generation of 3D model by using SOLIDWORKS and exporting to the IGES format and then import in ANSYS fluent 18.2.
CAD modelling / meshing has been done by following steps
a. Open Solid works then select part for modelling.
b. In part modelling select circle of 50 mm diameter.
c. After that select helix geometry of pitch 25 mm, tapered angle 20 and length 500 mm.
d. Now again come to circle command and at the end of helix pierce it.
Then select sweep command and in sweep command selecting tube then click to curve and geometry came.
Fluent Setup:
After mesh setup generation define the following steps in the ANSYS fluent 18.2.
Fluid Property
Type of fluid |
Water |
Density (ρ) |
998.2 kg/m3 |
Viscosity (µ) |
0.2 kg/m-s |
Specific heat (Cp ) |
1.67 KJ/Kg-K |
Thermal conductivity ( k) |
0.162Watt/mK |
Table 4: Properties of water
Type of fluid |
Copper Oxide Nanofluid |
Density (ρ) |
6000 kg/m3 |
Viscosity (µ) |
0.00001004 kg/m-s |
Specific heat (Cp ) |
551 J/Kg-K |
Thermal conductivity ( k) |
33 Watt/K |
Table 5: Properties of Copper oxide
Type of fluid |
Ethylene Glycol |
Density (ρ) |
1111.4 kg/m3 |
Viscosity (µ) |
0.0157 kg/m-s |
Specific heat (Cp ) |
2415 J/Kg-K |
Thermal conductivity (k) |
0.252 Watt/mK |
Table 6: Properties of Ethylene glycol
V. SOLUTION
A. Solution Method
Pressure - Velocity - Coupling – Scheme - Simple
B. Solution Initialisation
Initiate the solution to get the initial solution for the problem.
VI. RESULTS & DISCUSSION
The pressure drop information were collected for the configuration of cone formed coil for the CuO nanofluid as water & ethane glycol as its base fluid. The varied effects of mass rate were ascertained.
Case |
Tube diameter |
Fluid |
Pressure drop (Pa) |
1 |
10 mm |
CuO Nano fluid |
20589 |
Table 9: Effect of pressure drop on the cone shaped coil by using CuO nanofluid as ethylene glycol as its base fluid at 0.005 mass flow rate.
4. Effect of temperature on the cone shaped coil by using CuO nanofluid as ethylene glycol as its base fluid at 0.005 mass flow rate.
Case |
Tube diameter |
Fluid |
Temperature (K) |
1 |
10 mm |
CuO Nano fluid |
339.4 |
Table 10: Effect of temperature on the cone shaped coil by using CuO nanofluid as ethylene glycol as its base fluid at 0.005 mass flow rate.
5. Effect of pressure drop on the cone shaped coil by using CuO nanofluid as ethylene glycol as its base fluid at 0.02 mass flow rate.
Case |
Tube diameter |
Fluid |
Pressure drop (Pa) |
1 |
10 mm |
CuO Nano fluid |
77284 |
Table 11 : . Effect of pressure drop on the cone shaped helical coil by using CuO nanofluid as ethylene glycol as its base fluid.
6. Effect of temperature on the cone shaped coil by using CuO nanofluid as ethylene glycol as its base fluid at 0.02 mass flow rate.
Case |
Tube diameter |
Fluid |
Temperature (K) |
1 |
10 mm |
CuO Nano fluid |
338.4 |
Table 12: Effect of Temperature on the cone shaped helical coil by using CuO nanofluid with ethylene glycol as its base fluid on high pressure
7. Effect of pressure drop on the cone shaped coil by using CuO nanofluid as water as its base fluid at 0.005 mass flow rate.
Case |
Tube diameter |
Fluid |
Pressure drop (Pa) |
1 |
10 mm |
CuO Nano fluid |
1578 |
Table 13: Effect of pressure drop on the cone shaped helical coil by using CuO nanofluid as water as its base fluid.
8. Effect of temperature on the cone shaped coil by using CuO nanofluid as water as its base fluid at 0.005 mass flow rate.
Case |
Tube diameter |
Fluid |
Temperature (K) |
1 |
10 mm |
CuO Nano fluid |
338.7 |
Table 14: Effect of temperature on the cone shaped helical coil by using CuO nanofluid as water as its base fluid on high pressure.
9. Effect of pressure drop on the cone shaped coil by using CuO nanofluid as water as its base fluid at 0.02 mass flow rate.
Case |
Tube diameter |
Fluid |
Pressure drop (Pa) |
1 |
10 mm |
CuO Nano fluid |
6541 |
Table 15: Effect of pressure drop on the cone shaped helical coil by using CuO nanofluid as water as its base fluid.
10. Effect of temperature on the cone shaped coil by using CuO nanofluid as water as its base fluid at 0.02 mass flow rate.
Case |
Tube diameter |
Fluid |
Temperature (K) |
1 |
10 mm |
CuO Nano fluid |
339.2 |
Table 16: Effect of temperature on the cone shaped helical coil by using CuO nanofluid as water as its base fluid on high pressure.
a. Case-1: Tube Diameter is 10 mm, CuO nanofluid is used as ethylene glycol as its base fluid in aluminium cone shaped coil, Pressure drop is 20589 Pa at 0.005m/s mass flow rate
At a tube diameter of ten metric linear unit, the most pressure drop get is 20589 Pa. ab initio at all-time low section of the coil the pressure drop is 113 Pa and at the center portion pressure drop is 1038 Pa, from lower to middle portion of coil there's increase in pressure drop of 925 Pa. From middle to prime portion of coil there's unendingly increase in pressure drop from 1038 Pa to 20589 Pa in atomic number 13 cone formed coil mistreatment CuO nanofluid mistreatment ethanediol as a base fluid at zero.005m/s mass rate.
b. Case-2: Tube Diameter is 10 mm, CuO nanofluid is used as water as its base fluid in aluminium cone shaped coil, pressure drop is 1578 Pa at 0.005m/s mass flow rate.
At a tube diameter of ten metric linear unit, the most pressure drop get is 1578 Pa. ab initio at all-time low section of the coil the pressure drop is a pair of Pa and at the center portion pressure drop is eighty three Pa, from lower to middle portion of coil there's increase in pressure drop of eighty one Pa. From middle to prime portion of coil there's unendingly increase in pressure drop from eighty three Pa to 1578 Pa in atomic number 13 cone formed coil mistreatment CuO nanofluid and water as a base fluid at zero.005m/s mass rate.
c. Case-3: Tube Diameter is 10 mm, CuO nanofluid is used as ethylene glycol as its base fluid in aluminium cone shaped coil, pressure drop is 77284 Pa at 0.02m/s mass flow rate.
At a tube diameter of ten metric linear unit, the most pressure drop get is 77284 Pa. ab initio at all-time low section of the coil the pressure drop is nineteen.8 Pa and at the center portion pressure drop is 3809 Pa, from lower to middle portion of coil there's increase in pressure drop of 3798.2Pa. From middle to prime portion of coil there's unendingly increase in pressure drop from 3809 Pa to 77284 Pa in atomic number 13 cone formed coil mistreatment CuO nanofluid mistreatment ethanediol as a base fluid at zero.02m/s mass rate.
d. Case-4: Tube Diameter is 10 mm, CuO nanofluid is used as water as its base fluid in aluminium cone shaped coil, pressure drop is 6541 Pa at 0.02m/s mass flow rate.
At a tube diameter of ten metric linear unit, the most pressure drop get is 6541 Pa. ab initio at all-time low section of the coil the pressure drop is twenty.3 Pa and at the center portion pressure drop is three46.2 Pa, from lower to middle portion of coil there's increase in pressure drop of 325.9 Pa. From middle to prime portion of coil there's unendingly increase in pressure drop from 346.2 Pa to 6541Pa in atomic number 13 cone formed coil mistreatment CuO nanofluid mistreatment water as a base fluid at zero.02 m/s mass rate.
e. Case-5: Tube Diameter is 10 mm, CuO nanofluid is used as ethylene glycol as its base fluid in aluminium shaped coil, Max temperature is 339.4K at 0.005m/s mass flow rate.
f. Case 6: Tube Diameter is 10 mm, CuO nanofluid is used as water as its base fluid in aluminium cone shaped coil, Max temperature is 338.7K at 0.005m/s mass flow rate.
g. Case 7: Tube Diameter is 10 mm, CuO nanofluid is used as ethylene glycol as its base fluid in aluminium cone shaped coil, Max temperature is 338.4K at 0.02m/s mass flow rate.
h. Case 8: Tube Diameter is 10 mm, CuO nanofluid is used as ethylene glycol as its base fluid in aluminium cone shaped coil, Max temperature is 339.2K at 0.02m/s mass flow rate.
From on top of it's clear that after we used the CuO nanofluid mistreatment ethanediol as a base fluid at zero.02m/s mass rate then pressure drops will increase in CuO as a result of presence of metal particles additionally the} base fluid properties and also mass rate rate is bigger than previous. The numerical study considers the result of CuO nanofluid mistreatment ethanediol and water as its base fluid at zero.005m/s & 0.02m/s mass rate on the flow and warmth transfer characteristics of tube. The thermal belongings of fluid area unit minor as compared to nanofluid. Nano fluids have Nano particles of solid constituents that increase the thermal properties of Nano fluid conjointly as a result of vortex flow the pressure drop are going to be enlarged.
Properties |
Maximum Pressure |
Max. Temp. |
CuO nanofluid using ethylene glycol as a base fluid in cone shaped coil heat exchanger at 0.005m/s mass flow rate |
20589 Pa |
339.4 K |
CuO nanofluid using water as a base fluid in cone shaped coil heat exchanger at 0.005m/s mass flow rate |
1578 Pa |
338.7 K |
CuO nanofluid using ethylene glycol as a base fluid in cone shaped coil heat exchanger at 0.02m/s mass flow rate |
77284 Pa |
338.4 K |
CuO nanofluid using water as a base fluid in cone shaped coil heat exchanger at 0.02m/s mass flow rate |
6541 Pa |
339.2 K |
Table No. 17 CFD Analysis results
In this paper, analytical investigations are done on the cone shape coil heat exchanger, to determine pressure drop and temperature distribution of an ethylene glycol and water as a base fluid and a CuO as a nanofluid on cone shaped coil flowing under laminar flow conditions. By observing the CFD analysis results, we know that the material which has high thermal conductivity that fluid will give high pressure drop and also a material which is good in its properties. The pressure drop is more in CuO nanofluid with ethylene glycol as a base fluid in cone shaped helical coil heat exchanger at 0.02m/s mass flow rate.
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Paper Id : IJRASET47069
Publish Date : 2022-10-12
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