DESIGN AND THERMAL EVALUATION OF SHELL AND HELICAL COIL HEAT EXCHANGER

Amitkumar S. Puttewar, A.M. Andhare

Abstract: Heat exchangers are the important engineering equipments used for transferring heat from one fluid to another. Heat exchangers are widely used in various kinds of application such as power plants, nuclear reactors, refrigeration and air-conditioning systems, heat recovery systems, petrochemical, mechanical, biomedical industries. Helical coil heat exchangers are gaining wide importance now-a-days because it can give high heat transfer coefficient in small footprint of surface area. This paper focuses on the designing of shell and helical coil heat exchanger and its thermal evaluation with counter flow configuration. The thermal analysis is carried out considering the various parameters such as flow rate of cold water, flow rate of hot water, temperature, effectiveness and overall heat transfer coefficient.

Keywords: Helical coil heat exchanger, Counter flow, Flow rate, effectiveness, heat transfer coefficient etc.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.15623/ijret.2015.0401064