Scribd
Upload
84 views7 pages

B.V. Suryakiran 2016JES2908: To Study A Heat Pipe Heat Exchanger and Find Its Effectiveness

The document describes an experiment to study the effectiveness of a heat pipe heat exchanger. It includes the objective, apparatus, theory of operation, and experimental results. The heat exchanger uses the principles of evaporation and condensation to transfer heat between two air streams without mixing them. The experiment measured temperatures, air velocities, heat transfer rates, and calculated efficiency and effectiveness at different operating temperatures. Effectiveness increased with temperature on the hot side but efficiency decreased with increasing temperature.

Uploaded by

Surya Kiran
Copyright
© © All Rights Reserved
We take content rights seriously. If you suspect this is your content, claim it here.
Available Formats
Download as DOCX, PDF, TXT or read online on Scribd
84 views7 pages

B.V. Suryakiran 2016JES2908: To Study A Heat Pipe Heat Exchanger and Find Its Effectiveness

The document describes an experiment to study the effectiveness of a heat pipe heat exchanger. It includes the objective, apparatus, theory of operation, and experimental results. The heat exchanger uses the principles of evaporation and condensation to transfer heat between two air streams without mixing them. The experiment measured temperatures, air velocities, heat transfer rates, and calculated efficiency and effectiveness at different operating temperatures. Effectiveness increased with temperature on the hot side but efficiency decreased with increasing temperature.

Uploaded by

Surya Kiran
Copyright
© © All Rights Reserved
We take content rights seriously. If you suspect this is your content, claim it here.
Available Formats
Download as DOCX, PDF, TXT or read online on Scribd
You are on page 1/ 7

HEAT PIPE HEAT

EXCHANGER
TO STUDY A HEAT PIPE HEAT
EXCHANGER AND FIND ITS
EFFECTIVENESS

B.V.
SURYAKIRAN
2016JES2908
EXPERIMENT

OBJECTIVE

To study a heat pipe heat exchanger and to find its effectiveness

APPARATUS REQUIRED

Heat pipe heat exchanger with fans heaters, RTD probes with temperature
indicator (PT 100), electronically controlled thermostat, power supply and
anemometer.

THEORY

Fig 1: Principle of a heat pipe.

Heat pipe thermal cycle:

1. Working fluid evaporates to vapor, absorbing thermal energy.


2. Vapor migrates along the cavity to lower temperature end.
3. Vapor condenses back to fluid and is absorbed by wick, releasing
thermal energy.
4. Working fluid flows back to higher temperature end.

A heat pipe works on the principle of evaporation and condensation in an


enclosed container, some fluid (water) is taken and this container is
evacuated and sealed as shown in fig.1 and experimental setup of heat pipe
heat exchanger is shown in figure 2. Working fluid, water gets vaporized
partially and there is equilibrium between the liquid part and the vapors part,
under ordinary conditions. To one end of this tube is applied thermal energy
(by flowing hot air stream across this end).Here the latent heat of
vaporization is absorbed and this part becomes the evaporator region. Due
to pressure gradients thus created within the heat pipe by the rapid
generation of vapor, the excess vapor is forced to remote area within the
heat pipe having lower temperature and pressure (by flowing cool air across
this end of the pipe), this vapor reaches the other end of the heat pipe, loses
its thermal energy and condenses back to liquid, thereby giving up the latent
heat of condensation. This region is called condenser region.

A heat pipe works continuously in a closed loop condensation evaporation


cycle. The capillary pumping force is established within the wick structure
which returns the working fluid from the condenser region to the evaporator
region. The wick structure is typically a sintered metal powder or a series of
groves parallel to the pipe axis.

Thus a heat pipe is a simple device with no moving parts that can transfer
large quantities of heat over long distances, essentially at constant
temperature, without requiring any power input. In fact a heat pipe can
transfer heat so efficiently that its transfer rate is about thousand times
more than a solid copper rod of the same dimensions. It is a super thermal
conductor that transmits thermal energy by evaporation and condensation of
the working fluid.

Heat pipe heat exchanger consists of a number of heat pipes, to facilitate the
exchange of heat between two fluids while keeping them from mixing with
each other. The working fluid inside the heat pipe is chosen on the basis of
the operating temperature in which a heat pipe must operate. Some working
fluids are water, ethanol and acetone. For extremely low temperatures (2-4
K) one uses Helium and for very high temperatures (2000-3000 K) indium is
used.

APPLICATIONS
Major applications of heat pipes involve cooling of electronic circuits. Initially
these were used in tuners and amplifiers but these days all CPU processors
use these. Since heat pipes are not affected by zero gravity, these have
found many applications in combination with evacuated tube solar collector
arrays.

LIMITATIONS

Although heat pipes have several advantages like low weight, high heat flux,
zero power consumption and zero gravity functionality, it also has some
limitations like heat pipes must be designed to operate under certain
conditions. Above and below certain operating temperatures, a heat pipe will
cease to operate and in such a case the heat transfer will reduce to that in
the case of a hollow conducting bar. Making very small heat pumps is also
very difficult.

Fig 2: Complete Experimental Setup of Heat Pipe Heat Exchanger.


OBSERVATIONS

1. Area of duct = 37.5 * 25.8 cm2

= 967.5 * 10-4 m2

TABLE FOR OBSERVATIONS

AIR AIR
SET AIR TEMPERATURE(C) VELOCIT VELOCI
TEMPER Y IN TY IN
ATURE EVAPOR CONDE
(C) ATOR NSOR
SIDE SIDE
(m/s) (m/s),
(AVG.) (AVG.)
EVAPOR EVPOR CONDE CONDE
ATOR ATOR NSER NSER
INLET OUTLET INLET OUTLE
(THI) (THO) (TCI) T
(TCO)
45 43.5 38.5 32.4 34 0.52 1.5
50 47.7 40.9 32.9 35 0.48 1.42
55 52.3 44.6 36.6 38.7 0.52 1.48

CALCULATIONS

1. Mass flow rate:

Mh = Vh * A * air . For hot fluid

Mc = Vc * A * air . For cold fluid


2. Heat lost by hot air: Qh= Mh * CPh * (THI- THO)
3. Heat gained by cold air: Qc= Mc * CPc * (TCO- TCI)
4. Max. rate of heat transfer: Qmax= (M * CP )min* (THI- TCI)
Qc
5. Efficiency: Q h * 100
Qc
6. Effectiveness on cold side: Q max
Qh
7. Effectiveness on hot side : Q max

RESULT TABLE

MASS Heat transfer PERFORMANCE OF THE


SET FLOW Rate(KW) HEAT PIPE
TEM RATES
P. (Kg/s)
Mh Mc Qc Qh Qmax , Effective Effective
Efficie ness hot ness
ncy side cold side
45 0.05 0.16 0.26 0.28 0.62 92.88 0.45 0.4183
6 254 136 14 47 %
50 0.05 0.15 0.32 0.35 0.77 91.55 0.459 0.4197
2 38 5 5 34 %
55 0.56 0.16 0.33 0.43 0.89 77.73 0.488 0.38
27 036 84 54 05 %

CONCLUSIONS
1. With the increase in temperature, heat transfer rates have been
increased.
2. With the increase in temperature, efficiency decreases.
3. With the increase in temperature, effectiveness of the hot side has
been increased.

You might also like