PRESENTED BY

M. RAJAMOHAN
Ph.D (PART TIME)
REG.NO: 1412219864

UNDER THE GUIDANCE OF

Dr. G. KUMARESAN
AA
INSTITUTE FOR ENERGY STUDIES,
DEPARTMENT OF MECH. ENGG.
COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING
ANNAUNIVERSITY
CHENNAI-600 025
EXPERIMENTAL INVESTIGATION ON HEAT TRANSFER AND
FRICTION FACTOR CHARACTERISTICS OF DIFFERENT NANO
FLUIDS UNDER LAMINAR & TURBULENT FLOW WITH
PERFORATED TWISTED TAPE INSERTS
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PRESENTATION OVERVIEW
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INTRODUCTION
LITERATURE REVIEW
RESEARCH GAP
OBJECTIVE OF THE PROPOSED RESEARCH
METHODOLOGY
LAYOUT
CONCLUSIONS
REFERENCES
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Heat transfer enhancement techniques are widely utilized in many
applications in the heating process to enable reduction in weight and size
or increase the performance of heat exchangers.

These techniques are classified as active and passive
techniques. The active technique required external power such as
surface vibration, electric or acoustic fields.

Whereas the passive techniques required fluid additives, special
surface geometries or swirl/vortex flow devices i.e.; Twisted tape
inserts.

Moreover the passive techniques can play an important role in the
heat transfer augmentation if a proper configuration of the insert
is being selected based on working conditions.

New Technologies and new advanced fluids with potential to improve
flow & thermal characteristics are of critical importance. In recent years,
Nanofluids are promising fluids to meet and enhance the challenges.
INTRODUCTION
Year Authors Journal Particulars Inference
2014 Waghole et.al
Energy Procedia
Volume 45, 2014,
Pages 558567
Heat Transfer and friction factor data at various volume
concentrations for flow in absorber/Receiver and with and
without twisted tape inserts is determined experimentally (with
water and silver Nanofluid). The experiments show that
Nussult Number, friction factor and enhancement efficiency
are found to be 1.25 -2.10 times, 1.0 -1.75 times and 135%-
205%, respectively.
2014 Bhuiya et.al
International
Communications in
Heat and Mass
Transfer
Volume 50,
Pages 2533

The experiments were performed with double counter twisted
tapes of four different twist ratios (y = 1.95, 3.85, 5.92 and
7.75) using air as the testing fluid in a circular tube turbulent
flow regime. The experimental results demonstrated that the
Nusselt number, friction factor and thermal enhancement
efficiency were increased with decreasing twist ratio.
2014 Nanan et. al
International
Communications in
Heat and Mass
Transfer

Volume 50,
Pages 106112
Influence of perforated helical twisted-tapes (P-HTTs) on the
heat transfer, friction loss and thermal performance
characteristics under a uniform heat flux condition is reported.
The experimental results reveal that the use of P-HTTs leads
to the reduction of friction loss as compare to that of HTT. Heat
transfer, friction loss and thermal performance factor increase
as d/w decreases and s/w increases.
LITERATURE REVIEW
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Year Authors
Journal
Particulars
Inference
2014 Reddy et.al
International
Communications in
Heat and Mass
Transfer

Volume 52,
Pages 68-76
.
Heat transfer coefficient and friction factor of TiO
2
nanofluid
flowing in a double pipe heat exchanger with and without
helical coil inserts are studied experimentally. The heat
transfer coefficient and friction factor get enhanced by 10.73%
and 8.73% for 0.02% volume concentration of nanofluid when
compared to base fluid flowing in a tube.
2013 Bhuiya et.al
International
Communications in
Heat and Mass
Transfer

Volume 46,
Pages 59-67.
This work deals with the experimental investigation on Nusselt
number, friction factor and thermal performance factor in a
circular tube equipped with perforated twisted tape inserts
with four different porosities of R
p
= 1.6, 4.5, 8.9 and 14.7%.
The experimental results revealed that both heat transfer rate
and friction factor of the tube fitted with perforated twisted
tapes were significantly higher than those of the plain tube.
2013 Mogaii et.al
International Journal
of Refrigeration
Volume 36,
Pages 504515
This study presents experimental results of heat transfer
coefficient and pressure drop during two-phase flow of R134a
in a horizontal tube containing twisted-tape inserts.
Experimental pressure drop and heat transfer coefficient
results are presented, and also an analysis of overall
enhancement due to the inserts. The use of twisted-tape
inserts is suitable if applied to the high vapor quality region of
the evaporator and under high mass velocities.
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Year Authors
Journal
Particulars
Inference
2013 Song et.al
Procedia
Engineering
Volume 56,
Pages 96103
An experimental investigation was carried for measuring tube-
side heat transfer coefficient, friction factor, heat transfer
enhancement efficiency of water for turbulent flow in a circular
tube fitted with rectangular-cut twisted tape insert. Heat
transfer enhancement efficiencies were found to be in the
range of 1.9 to 2.3 and increased with the increase of
Reynolds number.

2012 Suresh et.al
Chemical
Engineering and
Processing
Volume 53 Pages
24 30
An experimental investigation on the convective heat transfer
and friction factor characteristics in circular tube with spiraled
rod inserts (pitch = 15 mm, 30 mm) under turbulent flow with
constant heat flux is carried out with distilled water and
Al
2
O
3
/water nanofluids. It is found that heat transfer
enhancement is caused by suspending nanoparticles and
becomes more pronounced with the increase of the particle
volume concentration.
2012 Suresh et.al
Experimental
Thermal and Fluid
Science
Volume 35
542549
An experimental investigation on the convective heat transfer
and friction factor characteristics in the plain and helically
dimpled tube under turbulent flow with constant heat flux is
presented in this work using CuO/water nanofluid as working
fluid.. The experimental results of isothermal pressure drop for
turbulent flow showed that the dimpled tube friction factors
were about 210% higher than the plain tube.
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The available literatures showed that numerous studies have been
carried out on heat transfer enhancement and pressure drop
characteristics in tubes with various geometrical configurations of twist
tape inserts with nanofluids.

However, no augmentation of heat transfer and friction factor
characteristics of nanofluids through a tube fitted with perforated
twisted tape inserts with different geometries and nanofluids with
different concentrations was reported.
RESEARCH GAP
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The objectives of the proposed research includes


To study the effects of the geometrical parameters such as twist
ratio, length and width of the perforated twisted tape inserts on heat
transfer performance and friction factor characteristics.

To compare the thermal performance of perforated twist tape insert
with different nanofluids.
OBJECTIVES OF THE PROPOSED
RESEARCH
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Detailed Literature review on heat transfer enhancement techniques in heat
exchanger device.
CFD analysis of heat exchanger performance with and without perforated
twisted tape insert.
Development of experimental setup based on CFD results.
Conduct of experiment in heat exchanger by using perforated twisted tape
insert and different nano fluids.
Analysis and comparison of heat exchanger performance. ( Heat transfer,
Friction factor and Pressure drop)

METHODLOGY
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EXPERIMENTAL LAYOUT
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Perforation Twist ratio
Twist Width
Analysis of CFD results
Development of
experimental setup
Literature Review
CFD analysis of heat exchanger by varying

Result & Discussions
Twist length
Publication of Journal paper
Thesis submission

Conventional heat transfer fluids have inherently poor thermal
conductivity compared to solids.

Nanofluids are a new class of advanced heat-transfer fluids
engineered by dispersing nano particles smaller than 100 nm
(nanometer) in diameter in conventional heat transfer fluids.

However, further augmentation of heat transfer could be developed
using passive heat transfer with the insertion of perforated twisted
tape inserts with different nanofluids.
In this research work, heat transfer augmentation in heat exchanger is
to be studied by considering different tape inserts and nano fluids.




CONCLUSIONS
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REFERENCES
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Thank you
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