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Date of Award
2018
Document Type
Campus Access Master's Thesis
Degree Name
Master of Science in Mechanical Engineering (MS)
Administrative Home Department
Department of Mechanical Engineering-Engineering Mechanics
Advisor 1
Amitabh Narain
Committee Member 1
Sunil Mehendale
Committee Member 2
V.C. Rao Komaravolu
Abstract
This thesis describes a unique and useful semi-experimental approach for innovating fin-tubes – towards addressing critical issues of a popular heat exchanger that is extensively used in the modern power generation sector. The approach consists of a unique synthesis of experiments, modeling and reliable computations. These heat-exchangers involve transfer of heat from warm-to-hot air that flows across a tube-bundle into the flowing fluid within the finned tubes. For a specific pair of traditional and innovative fin-tube designs used in a standard staggered tube-bundle arrangement, the approach yields comparative values of air-side thermal and pressure-drop resistances on a per tube basis. Up to 40 - 60% improvement in per-tube energy efficiency parameter (ratio of rate of heat removal to consumed pumping power associated with pressure-drop) is demonstrated for the innovative fin-tube over the traditional one for commonly encountered conditions in the heat-exchangers of interest.
Recommended Citation
Shinde, Nikhil, "INNOVATIVE FIN-TUBES FOR A STANDARD STAGGERED BUNDLE FAMILY LEADING TO SIGNIFICANT REDUCTIONS IN AIR-SIDE THERMAL AND PRESSURE-DROP RESISTANCES FOR A POPULAR HEAT-EXCHANGER – QUANTITATIVE CHARACTERIZATIONS BASED ON A UNIQUE SYNTHESIS OF EXPERIMENTS, MODELING, AND RELIABLE COMPUTATIONS", Campus Access Master's Thesis, Michigan Technological University, 2018.