HEAT TRANSFER ANALYSIS BY SIMULATION ON CORRUGATED PLATE HEAT EXCHANGER

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Sree Chaitanya B Vijaya Kumar P

Abstract

The flow field inside the heat exchanger is associated with maximum heat transfer rate with minimum pressure drop.In this investigations are carried out on Corrugated PHE.Plate heat exchanger is a device which is used for many applications such as dairy industries, pharmaceutical industries because of their easy cleaning and maintenance process.During the recent few decades.The use of (PHE) is now spread in to various industries like paper, Diary industries, Pharmaceutical industries mainly for the process of heating or cooling applications. The reason behind the wide spread of plate heat exchanger in today is because of easy maintenance and cleaning. But it creates higherturbulence when compared to the shell and tube heat exchanger. In present studies corrugated plate heat exchanger is considered because of their larger heat transfer surface area and it creates more turbulence when compared to the flat plate heat exchangers. As the fluid moves through a corrugated Plate heat exchanger, the direction of flow along the length changes continuously, this will shows the higher heat transfer coefficient when compared the flat PHE of similar dimensions. And also the results shows that the heat transfer coefficient is higher for a given Reynolds number (550) corrugation angle when compared to (350)and (450 corrugation angles. This is due tothe higher turbulence of the fluid generated for the higher corrugation angles. By using computational fluid dynamics the velocity and temperature profiles inside the heat exchanger has been developed using the software. The temperature profiles by simulated and their profiles are presented in the figures

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