Thermal performance of corrugated plate heat exchanger using ethylene glycol as test fluid

  • Sreedhar Rao Battula Department of Chemical Engineering, Chaitanya Bharathi Institute of Technology, Hyderabad, T.S., India https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6523-3153
  • Keerthana Reddy Chittireddy Department of Chemical Engineering, Chaitanya Bharathi Institute of Technology, Hyderabad, T.S., India
  • Meena Pullurwar Department of Chemical Engineering, Chaitanya Bharathi Institute of Technology, Hyderabad, T.S., India
  • Kishore Kumar Sriramoju Department of Chemical Engineering, Chaitanya Bharathi Institute of Technology, Hyderabad, T.S., India
Keywords: Corrugated plate, Heat exchanger, Overall heat transfer coefficient, Effectiveness, Reynolds number

Abstract

This paper reports an experimental comparative thermal analysis of a flat plate heat exchanger and corrugated plate heat exchanger (CPHE) of different corrugation angles using ethylene glycol as test fluid. The experiments were carried out counter current mode using water as hot fluid at 75°C.  Design of each plate provided with eleven thermocouple sensors to determine the temperatures, in which seven were used to measure the surface temperature of plate and four were used to measure the inlet and outlet bulk temperature of cold and hot fluids.  The mass flow rate of test fluid, varied between 0.5 to 4 liters per minute and corresponding steady state temperatures is measured. Using experimental readings, temperature difference between the inlet and outlet streams (DT), logarithmic mean temperature difference (LMTD) and overall heat transfer coefficient (U) are determined. The obtained DT and U values of corrugation angles (300, 500) of CPHE were compared with those of flat plate heat exchangers. For corrugation angle of 30° and 50°, the DT and U values increases with increase of mass flow rate of the fluid. 

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Author Biographies

Sreedhar Rao Battula, Department of Chemical Engineering, Chaitanya Bharathi Institute of Technology, Hyderabad, T.S., India

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Sreedhara Rao Battula received his Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering from National Institute of Technology (N.I.T.) Warangal, India, in 2015. Currently he works as an associated professor and HOD in Chemical engineering department, at C.B.I.T. Hyderabad, Telangana, India. His areas of research include Heat transfer, surface coatings and paints. He has publication in various SCI/Scopus indexed journals, as well as conference proceedings.

Keerthana Reddy Chittireddy, Department of Chemical Engineering, Chaitanya Bharathi Institute of Technology, Hyderabad, T.S., India

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Keerthana Reddy Chittireddy is pursuing final semester of B.Tech. in Chemical Engineering at C.B.I.T. Hyderabad, Telangana, India. Her areas of research interest is  heat transfer.

Meena Pullurwar, Department of Chemical Engineering, Chaitanya Bharathi Institute of Technology, Hyderabad, T.S., India

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Meena Pullurwar is pursuing final semester of B.Tech. in Chemical Engineering at C.B.I.T. Hyderabad, Telangana, India. Her areas of research interest is Heat transfer.

Kishore Kumar Sriramoju, Department of Chemical Engineering, Chaitanya Bharathi Institute of Technology, Hyderabad, T.S., India

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Kishore Kumar Sriramoju received his M.Tech and Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering from Indian Institute of Technology (I.I.T.) Kharagpur, India. in 2012 and 2017 respectively. Currently he works as an assistant professor in Chemical engineering department at C.B.I.T. Hyderabad, Telangana, India. His areas of research include Heat transfer, Polymer nanocomposites, Reaction Kinetics. He has publication in various SCI/Scopus indexed journals, as well as conference proceedings.

Published
2020-11-24
How to Cite
Battula, S., Chittireddy, K., Pullurwar, M. and Sriramoju, K. (2020) “Thermal performance of corrugated plate heat exchanger using ethylene glycol as test fluid”, Journal of Mechanical and Energy Engineering, 4(2), pp. 167-172. doi: 10.30464/jmee.2020.4.2.167.
Section
Energy Engineering