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Conclusion and Recommendations HT

The document summarizes the objectives, results and recommendations of experiments on heat transfer through a heat exchanger. The three objectives were to calculate heat transfer rates, study the effect of liquid flow rates on heat transfer coefficients, and study the effect of counter-current versus co-current flow. The results showed that counter-current flow led to higher heat transfer rates and effectiveness compared to co-current flow. Recommendations to improve the experiment included running it more times to increase accuracy, insulating the heat exchanger to reduce heat loss, ensuring accurate flow rate measurement, and fully opening or closing all valves.

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Conclusion and Recommendations HT

The document summarizes the objectives, results and recommendations of experiments on heat transfer through a heat exchanger. The three objectives were to calculate heat transfer rates, study the effect of liquid flow rates on heat transfer coefficients, and study the effect of counter-current versus co-current flow. The results showed that counter-current flow led to higher heat transfer rates and effectiveness compared to co-current flow. Recommendations to improve the experiment included running it more times to increase accuracy, insulating the heat exchanger to reduce heat loss, ensuring accurate flow rate measurement, and fully opening or closing all valves.

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CONCLUSION

There are three objectives in these experiments. The first objective is to calculate and
analyse the heat transfer process at steady state. The unit of flow rate must be changed from
LPM to kg/s to ease our calculation. The heat transfer rate, q from each tables have been
calculated and find the average to determine the overall heat transfer coefficient. Heat
exchanger efficiency also has been calculated for each of the experiments. The second
objective is to study the effect of liquid flow rate on the overall heat transfer coefficient and
the heat exchanger effectiveness. Next is to study the effect of flow arrangements either its
counter-current flow or co-current flow on overall heat transfer coefficient and heat
exchanger effectiveness. For the first experiment (co-current flow), the cold water stream was
set at constant flow rate that is 10LPM. The hot water stream has been set to 8LPM, 12LPM,
16LPM, and 20LPM. The temperatures from the inlets and outlets have been recorded. This
experiment was repeated for the hot water stream at constant flow rate that is 10LPM and the
flow rate of cold water have been set 8LPM, 12LPM, 16LPM and 20LPM. The same steps
are used to do for the counter-current flow. From Graph 3, hot water stream for counter
current heat exchanger has higher values at the beginning and the end while the cold water
stream for counter current heat exchanger has lower values at than hot stream by counter
current. Thus, we can say that counter current heat exchanger will have higher heat transfer
rate from the starting of the experiment until end of the experiment. Based on the graph in
Graph 4, The average effectiveness of the cold water stream in co-current and counter current
heat exchanger is higher compared to the hot water stream in co-current and counter current
heat exchanger. We can conclude that the cold water stream effect is more effective
compared to hot water stream.

RECOMMENDATION

In order to improve the experiment, there are few things that could be done. To increase the
accuracy of the result, instead of 4, we could run the experiment more times so that our result
will more accurate. In an effort to reduce the heat loss to the surroundings, it is recommended
that the heat exchanger be well insulated. Flow rates is a one of important things in heat
exchanger experiment. The flow rates used can vary the result obtained and might cause error
in the experiment. During the experiment, ensure that the flow rate is measured correctly
because it took some time for the heat exchanger to detect the value of the flow rates. So we
need to wait the heat exchanger detect the flow rates first before taking the temperatures.
Furthermore, before the experiment is conducted, it is important to ensure that all the valves
is fully closed or opened. This step is important to prevent build ups and leeks
(J.Constantinou,2004).

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