Augmentation of heat transfer performance in coiled flow inverter vis-à-vis conventional heat exchanger

Chemical Engineering Science

Volumn 65, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 999-1007

  Mandal, M M ^a   Kumar, Vimal ^a   Nigam, K D P ^a  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY DELHI   (India)

Author keywords

Coiled flow inverter heat exchanger; Heat transfer; Hydrodynamics; Transport processes; Turbulence

Indexed keywords

AMBIENT AIR; AMBIENT CONDITIONS; COILED FLOW INVERTER HEAT EXCHANGER; COILED TUBES; ELEVATED PRESSURE; EXPERIMENTAL DATA; EXPERIMENTAL STUDIES; FLOW INVERTERS; FLOW RANGES; FRICTION FACTORS; HEAT TRANSFER AREA; HEAT TRANSFER PERFORMANCE; HOT AIR; LAMINAR FLOW REGIMES; NEW CORRELATIONS; NUMBER OF TRANSFER UNITS; PILOT PLANT SCALE; PLATE-TYPE; PROCESS CONDITION; SHELL AND TUBE HEAT EXCHANGERS; TRANSPORT PROCESS;

CAISSONS; COLD STORAGE; COMPRESSED AIR; COOLING WATER; EXPERIMENTS; FLUID DYNAMICS; FRICTION; HYDRODYNAMICS; LAMINAR FLOW; NUSSELT NUMBER; PILOT PLANTS; PNEUMATICS; PRESSURE DROP; PRESSURE VESSELS; TRIBOLOGY; TUBES (COMPONENTS); TURBULENCE; TURBULENT FLOW;

HEAT EXCHANGERS;

EID: 71849096934     PISSN: 00092509     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ces.2009.09.053     Document Type: Article

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