Modeling of temperature profiles and efficiency of heat transfer equipment with intensifiers

Abstract

The problem of determination of temperature fields in the flow and efficiency of heat exchangers with intensification by metal chaotic packings is considered. Results of experimental studies of the heating of industrial oil with hot water in a "pipe-in-pipe" heat exchanger, where a chaotic packing of nominal size 6 mm is placed in the internal pipe, are presented. The packing, due to turbulence in the flow of oil, provides transition from the laminar to the turbulent regime and a significant increase in heat transfer coefficient (by 15-20 times). For calculating temperature profiles in channels, a cell model of the flow structure is written, where the main parameters are thermal number of transfer units and number of complete mixing cells. Expressions are given for calculating these parameters in pipes with chaotic packings. Results of calculating temperature profiles for various flowrates of the heated oil are presented and satisfactory agreement with experimental data is shown. The calculation of temperature fields makes it possible to take into account a change in thermophysical properties of flows along the length of the channels, which is especially important for hydrocarbon mixtures with high viscosity and large Prandtl numbers. The presented mathematical model allows to take into account the structure of heat carrier flows in apparatus with intensifiers and to calculate thermal efficiency of the processes of heating and cooling the media.

Keywords

• heat transfer
• flow structure
• chaotic packings
• cell model
• intensification