Heat Transfer Enhancement Through a Pipe By Inserting V-Shape Aluminium Turbulator

An experimental study of heat transfer in plane circular tube fitted with the V-Shaped Aluminum turbulators is performed for plane circular tube. The objective of this Project work is to analyses heat transfer coefficient and friction characteristics in a plane circular tube fitted with the V-Shaped Aluminum turbulators. The experimentations are firstly carried out on the plane circular pipe and heat transfer augmentation were recorded and then the v-shaped Aluminum turbulators are fitted in the same plane pipe and then again the heat transfer augmentation is recorded and then both of them is compared. Experimental investigations have been carried out to study the effects of the V-Shaped Aluminum turbulators on heat transfer, friction and enhancement efficiency, in a circular tube. We used the V-Shaped aluminum turbulators with the turbulator element length of 200mm, 160mm and 120mm.We found the heat transfer argumentation.The mean heat transfer rates obtained from using the V-Aluminum turbulators are 198%, 213% and 241% for turbulator element Length of 200mm, 160mm and 120 mm respectively. All of the experiments are carried out at the same inlet conditions with the Reynolds number, based on the tube diameter (Re), in a range of 3000 to 10000.