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CFD Comparative study of Design and Performance of shell-and-tube Heat Exchangers with different configurations

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Last updated: 23 Jan 2023

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Mechanical

Abstract

A different models of Shell-and-tube heat exchangers were designed by Ansys geometry & Solidworks to evaluate the best model for heat transfer and to calculate the difference in heat transfer in each model by investigated with numerically modeling. Each model for heat exchanger has different assumptions for first model one tube & one pass with tube length 3 meter, was made with 2 different cases (each case have the same conditions such as same temperature, same velocity, changing the direction of the flow between parallel and counter flow). The flow and temperature fields inside the shell and tubes are resolved using a Ansys CFD 17.2. A set of CFD simulations is performed for a single shell and tube bundle and is compared with the experimental results. the Realizable K-ε model is known for predicting the flow separation better than Standard K-ε. The temperature of each model is examined in detail. Each design was studied separately on the basis of the findings, the designs need modifications to improve heat transfer. The main goal of designing these models is to obtain highest performance for shell and tube heat exchanger with given conditions. These studies were carried out to find the most suitable conditions of operation in shell and tube heat exchanger so that in the future it can improve the performance of heat exchanger in industries through applying these conditions.

DOI

10.21608/erjeng.2022.159601.1093

Keywords

heat exchanger, Shell and tube heat Exchanger, parallel flow, counter flow, single pass shell and tube

Authors

First Name

Heba

Last Name

Abdelhamid

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Affiliation

mechanical department, faculty of Engineering, Tanta university

Email

heba.roushdy50@gmail.com

City

Alexandria

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First Name

Ayman

Last Name

Bakry

MiddleName

I.

Affiliation

Mechanical Power Department, Faculty of Engineering, Tanta University, Egypt.

Email

aymanbakry@f-eng.tanta.edu.eg

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First Name

Hagar

Last Name

Alm ElDin Mohamad

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Affiliation

mechanical department, faculty of Engineering, Tanta University.

Email

hagaralmeldin@f-eng.tanta.edu.eg

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Volume

6

Article Issue

3

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36866

Issue Date

2022-09-01

Receive Date

2022-08-30

Publish Date

2022-09-26

Page Start

134

Page End

148

Print ISSN

2356-9441

Online ISSN

2735-4873

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https://erjeng.journals.ekb.eg/article_260201.html

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17

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Research articles

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1,605

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Publication Title

Journal of Engineering Research

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https://erjeng.journals.ekb.eg/

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23 Jan 2023