Handbook for Transversely Finned Tube Heat Exchanger Design

Handbook for Transversely Finned Tube Heat Exchanger Design

Eugene Pis'mennyi

Georgiy Polupan

Ignacio Carvajal-Mariscal

Florencio Sanchez-Silva

Igor Pioro

Table of Contents

Cover image

Title page

Copyright

About the Authors

Foreword

Preface

Nomenclature

Chapter 1. General Statements

1.1. Geometric Characteristics

Chapter 2. Heat-Transfer Calculations

2.1. Basic Equations

2.2. Overall Heat-Transfer Coefficient

2.3. Reduced Convective Heat-Transfer Coefficient h1rdc

2.4. Convective Heat-Transfer Coefficient (hc)

2.5. Heat-Transfer Coefficient From Wall to Internal Medium (h2)

2.6. Contamination Factor and Thermal Efficiency

2.7. Average Temperature Difference

Chapter 3. Calculation of Aerodynamic Resistance

3.1. Aerodynamic Resistance Calculation

Chapter 4. Calculation of Hydraulic Resistance

4.1. Definition of Quantities that Characterize Flow

4.2. Calculation of Total Hydraulic Resistance of Tube Element

4.3. Calculation of Hydraulic Friction and Local Resistances of Heat-Transfer Surface

4.4. Friction Resistance

4.5. Local Resistance in Tube Elements

4.6. Pressure Variation in Collectors

Chapter 5. Calculation of Temperature Mode of Finned Tubes

5.1. Definition

5.2. Calculation of Temperature of Fin Base

5.3. Temperature at Fin Tip

5.4. Mean Integral Temperature of Fin

5.5. Temperature of the Inside Surface of Tube

5.6. Thickness Average Temperature of the Tube Wall in the Region of Maximum Heat Flux

Chapter 6. Strength Design

6.1. Basic Concepts

6.2. Design Pressure

6.3. Design Temperature

6.4. Allowable Stress

6.5. Calculation of Allowable Wall Thickness of Finning-Carrying Tube

Chapter 7. Examples of Calculations

7.1. Calculation Assignment

7.2. Heat Balance

7.3. Structural Features of WAHE

7.4. Area of Heat-Transfer Surface

7.5. Calculation of Aerodynamic Resistance

7.6. Calculation of Hydraulic Resistance of WAHE

Appendix A. Units Conversion

Appendix B. Recommended Thermophysical Properties Software for Gases and Liquids

Appendix C. Tables of Properties of Substances

References

Index

Copyright

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About the Authors

Eugene Pis'mennyi graduated as a mechanical engineer within the area of steam-generator design from the National Technical University of Ukraine, Kyiv Polytechnic Institute. He obtained his Ph.D. within the area of thermal physics at the same institution. Dr. Pis'mennyi earned a degree of Doctor of Technical Sciences from the Institute of Engineering Thermophysics, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine. Dr. Pis'mennyi is an internationally recognized scientist within the areas of nuclear engineering and heat transfer. He is an author of more than 400 publications, including eight technical books, 16 patents, and more than 50 technical reports. He has supervised 15 Ph.D. and more than 100 master in science and bachelor's theses. Currently, Dr. Pis'mennyi is a dean of the Heat Power Engineering Faculty and the Chief of Nuclear Power Plants and Engineering Thermophysics Department at the National Technical University of Ukraine, Kyiv Polytechnic Institute.

His research interest is convective heat transfer and methods of its enhancement.

His contact e-mail: evgnik@i.com.ua.

Georgiy Polupan graduated as a mechanical engineer within the area of steam generator design from the National Technical University of Ukraine, Kyiv Polytechnic Institute. He obtained his Ph.D. within the area of thermal physics at the same institution.

His major area of study is thermal processes in steam generators, thermo-physics, and efficient use of energy. He is an author of more than 300 publications, including three technical books, two patents, and 67 papers in refereed journals.

G. Polupan was a researcher at the Thermal Physics Department from 1972 to 1985 and a professor of the Thermal Engineering Faculty of the National Technical University of Ukraine, Kyiv Polytechnic Institute from 1985 to 1999. Since 1999, he has been a full professor at the National Polytechnic Institute of Mexico, Superior School of Mechanical and Electrical Engineering, Thermal Engineering and Applied Hydraulic Laboratory.

His contact e-mail: gpolupan@ipn.mx.

Ignacio Carvajal-Mariscal graduated as a mechanical engineer from the Moscow Power Engineering Institute (Russia) in 1994. He obtained an M.Sc. and Ph.D. in thermal engineering from the same institution in 1996 and 1999, respectively. He was a visiting professor at the Mechanical and Mechatronics Engineering Department, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Canada, from 2008 to 2009. His major area of study is convective heat transfer. He is an author of more than 200 publications, including one technical book and 23 papers in refereed journals.

Currently, Dr. Carvajal-Mariscal is a full professor at the National Polytechnic Institute of Mexico, Superior School of Mechanical and Electrical Engineering, Thermal Engineering and Applied Hydraulic Laboratory. His research interests are heat-transfer enhancement, experimental fluid dynamics, and heat-exchanger design.

Dr. Carvajal-Mariscal has been an ASME member since 2008.

His contact e-mail: icarvajal@ipn.mx.

Florencio Sanchez-Silva graduated as a Mechanical Engineer from the National Polytechnic Institute of Mexico, Mexico City, in 1974. He obtained an M.Sc. in thermodynamics and Ph.D. in thermal engineering from the National Superior School of Mechanics and Aerothermics of Poitiers, France, in l980. He was a post doctorate in two-phase flow dynamics at the University of Pisa, Italy, in 1988–1989 and spent his sabbatical leave at Texas A&M University from 2000 to 2001. His major area of study is two-phase flow dynamics and phase change heat transfer.

Currently, he is a full professor at the National Polytechnic Institute of Mexico, Superior School of Mechanical and Electrical Engineering, Thermal Engineering and Applied Hydraulic Laboratory. His research interests are two-phase flow dynamics, heat pipes, energy saving, and development and analysis of thermal energy systems.

To date, Dr. Sánchez-Silva has 38 refereed journal publications, 250 refereed papers in conference proceedings, 15 technical reports, two technical books, and three chapters in technical books. He has supervised three Ph.D., 44 master in science, and 31 bachelor's theses on two-phase flow, heat transfer, fluid mechanics, metrology, and thermal systems topics.

Dr. Sanchez-Silva is a Fellow of the Societé des Ingenieurs et Scientifiques de France, Mexican Section (since l987) and has been a member of the Mexican Academy of Sciences since 2004.

His contact e-mail: fsanchezs@ipn.mx.

Professor Igor Pioro, Ph.D. (1983), Doctor of Technical Sciences (1992), professional engineer (2008), Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (2012), Fellow of the Engineering Institute of Canada (EIC) (2013), and Fellow of the Canadian Society of Mechanical Engineers (2015), is an internationally recognized scientist within the areas of nuclear engineering and heat transfer. He has authored/coauthored more than 425 publications, including nine technical books, 15 chapters in encyclopedias, handbooks, and technical books, 88 papers in refereed journals, 241 papers in refereed proceedings of international and national conferences and symposiums, 26 patents and inventions, and 46 major technical reports.

Dr. Pioro graduated from the National Technical University of Ukraine, Kiev Polytechnic Institute with an M.A.Sc. in thermal physics in 1979. After that, he worked in various positions, including engineer, senior scientist, deputy director, professor, director of the graduate program in nuclear engineering, and associate dean. Currently, he is associated with the Faculty of Energy Systems and Nuclear Science University of Ontario Institute of Technology (Oshawa, Ontario, Canada).

Dr. Pioro is a Founding Editor of the ASME Journal of Nuclear Engineering and Radiation Science (from 2014). He was a Chair of the Executive Committee of the Nuclear Engineering Division of the ASME (2011–2012) and a Chair of the International Conference On Nuclear Engineering (ICONE20-POWER2012).

Professor Pioro has received many international and national awards and certificates of appreciation including Service Recognition Award from the ASME (2014), Honorary Doctor's degree from the National Technical University of Ukraine, Kiev Polytechnic Institute (2013), The Canadian Nuclear Society (CNS) Education and Communication Award (2011), and the ICONE Award from the ASME (2009), among others.

Foreword

It is a pleasure for me to respond to the invitation of writing a foreword to the English translation of the original book Manual Para el Cálculo de Intercambiadores de Calor y Bancos de Tubos Aleteados. In my opinion, this is a very complete and practical handbook on the topic, both for advanced students, researchers, and especially for professional practitioners in mechanical, energy, chemical, and thermal engineering. It covers exhaustively the dimensioning and thermo-fluid performance calculation of banks of tubes as a part of the layout of industrial heat exchangers, incorporating transversal fins as external area extenders to compensate the low heat carrying capacity of flowing gases and among them, air and combustion fumes.

It represents an excellent example of international collaboration on technological progress between the Faculty of Thermal Engineering of the National Technical University of Ukraine, Kiev Polytechnic Institute and the Superior School of Mechanical and Electrical Engineering, Thermal Engineering and Applied Hydraulic Laboratory of the National Polytechnic Institute in México. It also represents an example of the high-quality work of the laboratories where the tests were performed. The modern methodology chosen has been extensively communicated to the scientific and technology communities and includes empirical information that gathers practical experience.

The handbook deals with the internal-flow convection coefficient for smooth round tubes or tubes that could be treated as equivalently round, with the conduction of the wall and with the external convection coefficient for circular, square, and helical fins, considered as components of the overall heat transfer coefficient, including the effect of particle-containing gases. Algorithms for both the pressure loss of the internal and external flows are offered in the book, and it even provides a mechanical-strength calculation procedure for the wall thickness under thermal stresses and internal pressure. The book introduces correlations valid for a wide range of the influencing parameters under steady-state operational conditions without forgetting the influence of boiling and radiation. Care has been taken to include real-world effects such as flow maldistribution and flow nonuniformities. The methodology relies on the use of nondimensional groups, which guarantees consistency and wide applicability.

A fully solved exercise is offered at the end of the book, illustrating the top-down approach that is specially oriented toward power plant heat exchangers.

The Spanish edition of the book has obtained an excellent acceptance, especially in Latin America and Spain. Its translation