An Investigation of Air-Side Heat and Mass Transfer of the Fin-and-Tube Heat Exchangers / 鰭管式熱交換器熱質傳性能之研究

碩士 / 中國文化大學 / 材料科學與製造研究所 / 87 / The present study had tested the fin-and-tube heat exchangers with slit fin and plain fin geometry. Total of twenty-four different specification of heat exchangers were tested both in open type wind tunnel and close type wind tunnel. The effect of the number of row, fin pitches and fin pattern of the air-side heat and mass transfer performance were experimentally investigated. The test results are compared and presented as Colburn j factor and fanning friction factor f against Reynolds number ReDc based on the fin collar diameter Dc in the range of 300 to 8,000 in open type wind tunnel and 500 to 4,500 in close type wind tunnel, respectively.
In open type wind tunnel, the test results indicated that the heat transfer performance increase as the fin pitch decreasing for one row configuration. However, when row number over than four, the effect of fin pitch on the heat transfer performance is reversed. In addition to the effect of fin pitch, the heat transfer performance decrease with increasing the number of tube row. But the friction characteristic is relatively independent of the number of tube row. Based on the present results and those from the former investigation by Nakayama, a general correlation is proposed to describe the airside performance of slit fin configuration, mean deviation of the proposed heat transfer and friction correlation are 5.5% and 3.9%, respectively.
In close type wind tunnel, the test results indicated that the heat transfer performance is relatively independent of inlet relative humidity. However, when ReDc > 2,000 with smaller fin pitch, the heat transfer performance slightly increase with inlet relative humidity. The test results showed that the heat transfer performance in close type wind tunnel had a similar trend compared with open type wind tunnel. Friction factor f increase as the decreasing of the fin pitch, and also as the function of the humidity of the inlet conditions in one row configuration. In two-row configuration of slit fin geometry, the friction characteristics showed as the function of the inlet relative humidity under high frontal velocity conditions.

Identiferoai:union.ndltd.org:TW/087PCCU0159007
Date January 1999
CreatorsChang, Chun-Jung, 張峻榮
ContributorsChen, Wen-Chih, 陳文智
Source SetsNational Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations in Taiwan
Languagezh-TW
Detected LanguageEnglish
Type學位論文 ; thesis
Format85

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