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M.E. (Heat transfer in Energy Systems) Student, Department of Mechanical Engineering, College of Engineering(A),
Andhra University, Visakhapatnam, Andhra Pradesh, India
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Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, College of Engineering (A), Andhra University, Visakhapatnam,
Andhra Pradesh, India
Abstract
Air-cooled and water-cooled charge air coolers are used as applications in automobiles. The cooling media include engines
coolant, ambient air or any other external coolant source. Charge air cooler with offset strip fin geometry is chosen on both hot
and cold sides with fin thickness 0.15 mm, length 3.2 mm, height 5.2 mm and frequency of 18 fins per inch. The flow rate on hot
side is taken as 0.3 kg/s and cold side as 2 kg/s for air-cooled charge air cooler and for water-cooled charge air cooler on hot
side it is 0.3 kg/s and cold side is 0.265 kg/s with inlet temperature on hot side 160 o C and cold side 40 o C. With the above
conditions, performance evaluation is done on both charge air coolers. Having found water-cooled charge air cooler is having
higher effectiveness than air-cooled type, performance evaluation is carried out on water-cooled charge air cooler with varying
mass flow rates on hot side from 0.1 to 0.6 kg/s and keeping cold fluid rate constant at 0.265 kg/s and the outputs obtained are
Colburn-j factor, Fanning friction factor, heat transfer coefficient, overall heat transfer coefficient and effectiveness of h eat
exchanger. From the obtained results, graphs are drawn to assess the performance of the water charge air cooler.
Keywords: Charge Air Cooler, Plate Fin Heat Exchanger, Colburn-J Factor, Heat Transfer Coefficient, Fanning
Friction Factor, Effectiveness
--------------------------------------------------------------------***---------------------------------------------------------------------1. INTRODUCTION
Different types of heat exchangers are used in aerospace and
automobiles as charge air coolers (CA C), rad iators, oil
coolers, heater cores, air conditioning machines (ACM), etc.
The present work is concentrated on charge air cooler. The
main goal of charge air cooler is to decrease the temperature
of in let air entering into the cylinder. In this work, thermal
and heat transfer analysis is carried out on an air cooler
treating it to be a plate fin heat exchanger. To install this in
aero or auto mobile application, space is a major constraint.
So the exchanger chosen should be compact enough. These
are characterized by high heat transfer surface area per unit
volume.
Several researchers discussed performance of d ifferent types
of heat exchangers used for different purposes and
developed correlations both numerically and experimentally.
Shah and Sekulic [1] pointed out that compact heat
exchangers are taken to have large surface area/volu me
ratios. Plate fin exchanger is used for various applications
which use plain, wavy, o ffset, perforated, pin and louvered
fins. Manglik and Bergles [2] in their paper discussed the
effect of fin geometry on heat transfer and pressure drop
correlations. The results are found to be in close agreement
with experimental data got by Kays and London [3]. Zhang
et al. [4] in their art icle gave the increase in heat transfer in
parallel plate fin heat exchangers. This includes inline and
staggered array arrangements of offset fins taking fin
thickness. Dejong et al. [5] in their paper studied flow and
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3.
ANALYSIS
OF
PLATE
FIN
HEAT
EXCHANGER
The performance of a plate fin heat exchanger can be
analyzed by putting the necessary equations in order as
below:
Minimu m free flow area, (A o ) is calcu lated as
A o = (b-t) w (1-nt) Np
(1)
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A p = 2 {l w (1- nt) Np }
(2)
(b-t)
Np
(14)
(4)
Hydraulic diameter, Dh
Dh =
(
{(
)(
)
)
)}
(5)
tco = tci +
(6)
G=
(16)
(17)
(7)
For unmixed unmixed cross flow arrangement, is given
by
(C NTU . ) 1}
= 1
[
NTU . {
Re =
(8)
-0.1856
0.3053
(9)
-0.2659
f = 9.6243 Re
()
()
()
[1+7.669E-8 Re4.429 ()0.92 ()3.767 ()0.236 ]0.1
(18)
Where
C* = Cmin / Cmax
(10)
, =
1/2
(12)
Where, l = (b/2)
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5. CONCLUSIONS
NOMENCLATURE
A
b
C
Dh
f
G
h
j
k
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L
Lf
l
ls
m
m
Np
NTU
Nu
n
P
Pr
p
Q
Re
s
T
t
U
u
V
Greek symbols
f
o
Subscripts
c
f
fr
h
i
m
o
p
w
REFERENCES
[1] Ramesh K.shah and P.DusanSekulic, Fundamentals of
Heat exchanger Design, John Wiley and Sons, 2003
[2] R.M.Manglik and A.E.Bergles, Heat Transfer and
Pressure drop Correlations for Rectangular Offset Strip
Fin Co mpact Heat Exchanger, Experimental Thermal
and Fluid Science, Vol.10, pp.171-180, 1995.
[3] W.M.Kays and A.L.London, Compact Heat Exchangers.
2nd Edit ion, McGraw-Hill, New Yo rk, 1964.
[4] L.W.Zhang, S.Balachandar, D.K.Tafti and F.M.Najjar,
Heat Transfer Enhancement Mechanisms in Inline and
Staggered Parallel Plate Fin Heat Exchanger,
International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer, Vo l.
40, No.10, pp. 2307-2325, 1997
[5] N.C.Dejong, L.W.Zhang, A.M.Jacobi, S.Balchandar and
D.K.Taft i, A Co mplementary Experimental and
Nu merical Study of Flow and Heat Transfer in Offset
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