Heat Transfer and Resistance Characteristics of Conical Spiral Tube Bundle Based on Field Synergy Principle

Conical spiral tube bundle are universally used in heat transfer enhancement in heat exchangers.The heat transfer and resistance of the tube bundle are affected greatly by the conical structure,so the analysis of it is necessary.In order to a further evaluation,the heat transfer and resistance characteristics of conical spiral tube bundle are investigated with regression analysis based on numerical simulation data.The correlations of heat transfer and pressure drop of conical spiral tube bundle are proposed both in laminar and turbulent fluid flow.On the based of the field synergy principle,the synergy of four vectors,the velocity,the velocity gradient,the temperature gradient and the pressure gradient,are calculated and discussed via the user defined function（UDF） program.The synergy angles β and θ,which respectively denote the performance of heat transfer enhancement and pressure drop of the conical spiral tube bundle,are analyzed.Finally,the comprehensive performance of the conical spiral tube is evaluated by the synergy angle γ and all of the three synergy angles of conical spiral tube bundle are compared to both bare tube and thin cylinder-interpolated tube.The analysis of the synergy angles shows that the heat transfer enhancement and pressure drop of conical spiral tube bundle are smaller than that of the thin cylinder-interpolated tube,while the comprehensive performance of conical spiral tube bundle is greater.The analysis of the heat transfer and pressure drop of conical spiral tube is valuable and instructional on the design and optimum of conical spiral tube bundle heat exchangers.

Experimental Study on Cross-Flow Induced Vibrations in Heat Exchanger Tube Bundle

Vibration in heat exchangers is one of the main problems that the industry has faced over last few decades. Vibration phenomenon in heat exchangers is of major concern for designers and process engineers since it can lead to the tube damage, tube leakage, baffle damage, tube collision damage, fatigue, creep etc. In the present study, vibration response is analyzed on single tube located in the centre of the tube bundle having parallel triangular arrangement （60-） with P/D ratio of 1.44. The experiment is performed for two different flow conditions. This kind of experiment has not been reported in the literature. Under the first condition, the tube vibration response is analyzed when there is no internal flow in the tube and under the second condition, the response is analyzed when the internal tube flow is maintained at a constant value of 0.1 rn/s. The free stream shell side velocity ranges from 0.8 rn/s to 1.3 m/s, the reduced gap velocity varies from 1,80 to 2.66 and the Reynolds number varies from 44500 to 66000. It is observed that the internal tube flow results in larger vibration amplitudes for the tube than that without internal tube flow. It is also established that over the current range of shell side flow velocity, the turbulence is the dominant excitation mechanism for producing vibration in the tube since the amplitude varies directly with the increase in the shell side velocity. Damping has no significant effect on the vibration behavior of the tube for the current velocity range.

Experimental and Numerical Investigation on Erosion Corrosion of the Air Cooler Tube Bundle in a Residue Hydrotreating Unit

Corrosion leakage occurred in the 14th tube bundle in the first row of a residual oil hydrotreating air cooler after operating for two years.The failure location was 0.5 m from the outlet header box.In this paper,the erosion corrosion of the air cooler tube bundle was investigated by experimental and numerical methods.Visual inspection,scanning electron microscopy(SEM),and X-ray diffraction(XRD)experiments were performed,and the failure morphology and material composition confirmed that the damage was caused by erosion corrosion.The shear stress transport k–ωturbulence model(SST-k–ω)was then used to investigate the flow and erosion corrosion characteristics,combined with mass transfer,corrosion rate,and ionization equilibrium models.The numerical simulation results revealed that the water phase volume fraction increased with flow and heat transfer in the fluid,which increased the mass flow rate and concentration of hydrogen sulfide.The mass transfer coefficient and corrosion rate were proposed as important parameters to characterize erosion corrosion.Moreover,the local concentration of wall shear stress was found to increase the risk of erosion corrosion.The predicted high-risk area was consistent with the actual failure area,which verified that this failure incident was attributable to erosion corrosion by the water phase.

Heat transfer model of two-phase flow across tube bundle in submerged combustion vaporizer

In order to optimize the design of the submerged combustion vaporizer(SCV), an experimental apparatus was set up to investigate the heat transfer character outside the tube bundle in SCV. Several experiments were conducted using water and CO_2 as the heat transfer media in the tubes, respectively. The results indicated that hot air flux, the initial liquid level height and the tube pitch ratio had great influence on the heat transfer coefficient outside the tube bundle(ho). Finally, the air flux associated factor β and height associated factor γ were introduced to propose a new hocorrelation. After verified by experiments using cold water, high pressure CO_2 and liquid N_2 as heat transfer media, respectively, it was found that the biggest deviation between the predicted and the experimental values was less than 25%.

Vibration Response and Stress Analysis of Planar Elastic Tube Bundle Induced by Fluid Flow

Flow?induced vibration plays a positive role on heat transfer enhancement. Meanwhile, it is also a negative factor for fatigue strength. Satisfying the fatigue strength is the primary prerequisite for heat transfer enhancement. This paper numerically studied the flow?induced vibration of planar elastic tube bundle based on a two?way fluid–structure interaction(FSI) calculation. The numerical calculation involved the unsteady, three?dimensional incompressible governing equations solved with finite volume approach and the dynamic balance equation of planar elastic tube bundle solved with finite element method combined with dynamic mesh scheme. The numerical approach was verified by comparing with the published experimental results. Then the vibration trajectory, deformation and stress contour of planar elastic tube bundle were all studied. Results show that the combined movement of planar elastic tube bundle represents the agitation from inside to outside. The vibration of out?of?plane is the main vibration form with the typically sinusoidal behavior because the magnitude of displacement along the out?of?plane direction is the 100 times than the value of in?plane direction. The dangerous point locates in the innermost tube where the equivalent stress can be utilized to study the multiaxial fatigue of planar elastic tube bundle due to the alternating stress concentration. In the velocity range of 0.2-3 m/s, it is inferred that the vibration amplitude plays a role on the stress response and the stress amplitude is susceptible to the fluid velocity. This research paves a way for studying the fatigue strength of planar elastic tube bundle by flow?induced vibration.

Numerical Study of Fluid Flow over Bundle Tubes

In this paper, a bank of tubes containing a flowing fluid which is immersed in a cross flow second medium of fluid with different temperature has been studied numerically using computational fluid dynamics. Laminar steady flow with a low Reynolds number has been studied in this work. Inlet mass flow rate and the bulk temperature are known and numerical method has been implemented to study the convective heat transfer to investigate the temperature and flow fields. Effects of different inlet bulk temperatures and mass flow rates have been investigated on temperature and pressure variations.

Experimental study of shell side flow-induced vibration of conical spiral tube bundle

Conical spiral tube bundles are widely used in enhancing the heat transfer via the flow-induced vibration in heat exchangers. The shell side flow-induced vibration of the conical spiral tube bundle is experimentally investigated in this paper. The experi- ment table was built and the operational modes, the vibration parameters of the tube bundle were analyzed. The results show that, the operational mode frequencies of the conical spiral tube are decreased as the shell-side fluid flow velocity increases, especially for the first order frequency. Within the parameter range of this experiment, the real working frequency of the conical spiral tube is between the 1 st and the 2nd operational modes, and the free end vibration amplitude of the tube bundle increases greatly when the shell side fluid flow velocity exceeds a critical value.

Numerical analysis of shell-side flow-induced vibration of elastic tube bundle in heat exchanger

The responses of the flow-induced vibration of an elastic tube bundle subjected to the shell-side cross flow are investigated in this paper. The weak coupling method and the fluid solid interface are used to solve the fluid-structure interaction problem with consideration of the geometry and physical natures. The effects of the shell-side fluid flow velocity and the structural parameters on the flow-induced vibration are discussed. Numerical results demonstrate that the vibration frequency and amplitude at the monitor points increase with the increase of the shell-side water inlet velocity in all directions. The wall thickness and the external diameter of the elastic tube bundle have significant effects on the responses of the flow-induced vibration. The structural parameters affect the vibration frequency and amplitude, and the vibration equilibrium position in the water flow direction. The vibration frequency decreases with the increase of the tube external diameter. In addition, the vibration in the water flow direction has a lower equilibrium position when the elastic tube bundle has a larger wall thickness or smaller external diameter.

MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS OF TRANSVERSE VIBRATION OF CONICAL SPIRAL TUBE BUNDLE WITH EXTERNAL FLUID FLOW

The conical spiral tube bundle is a new type of heat transfer elements used to enhance heat transfer through flow-induced vibration. The effect of the external fluid flow on the transverse vibration of the conical spiral tube bundle is investigated with a mathematical method proposed in this article. Firstly, the natural vibration of the tube bundle is obtained by the hammering excitation method and the mode shapes of the transverse vibration are discussed. Then the effect of the external fluid flow on the transverse vibration of tube bundle is analyzed by a combination of experimental data, empirical correlations and FEM. The results show that in the frequency range from 0 Hz to 50 Hz, there exist six transverse vibrations. The external fluid flow has a significant effect on the frequency of the tube＇s transverse vibration, which are decreased by about 18% to 24% when the external fluid flow speed is 0.3 m/s.

Calculation of relative permeability in reservoir engineering using an interacting triangular tube bundle model

Analytical expressions of relative permeability are derived for an interacting cylindrical tube bundle model. Equations for determining relative permeability curves from both the interacting uniform and interacting serial types of triangular tube bundle models are presented. Model parameters affecting the trend of relative permeability curves are discussed. Interacting triangular tube bundle models are used to history-match laboratory displacement experiments to determine the relative permeability curves of actual core samples. By adjusting model parameters to match the history ofoil production and pressure drop, the estimated relative permeability curves provide a connection between the macroscopic flow behavior and the pore-scale characteristics of core samples.

COMPLEX HEAT TRANSFER ENHANCEMENT BY FLUID INDUCED VIBRATION

A new method of heat transfer enhancement by fluid induced vibration was putforward, and its theoretical a-nalysis and experimental study were performed. Though people alwaystry to prophylaxis fluid induced vibration for regarding it as an accident, the utilization space offluid induced vibration is still very large. The in-surface and out-surface vibrations which comefrom the fluid induce elastic tube bundles, can effectively increase the convective heat transfercoefficient, and also decrease the fouling resistance, then increase the heat transfer coefficientremarkably.