ME 351: Mechanical Engineering

Lab I
HT 3: Heat Transfer in turbulent
Flow

Heat
Transfer Lab
Heat Transfer in
Turbulent Flow
Submitted by: Group(9)
Anshul Gupta | 11110017
Harsh Gupta | 11110035
Ramesh Kumar | 11110080
Saurabh Singhal | 11110092

Aim:

To determine the overall heat transfer coefficient making use of logarithmic mean
temperature
diference. From overall heat transfer coefficient, determine the individual film heat
transfer
coefficients and verify the Dittus-Boelter equation for turbulent flow heat transfer.
Formulae:

1.

Amount of Heat
Transferred:
3600

1000

( 1 1 )
( 2 2 )

(1 2 )

( )

(2
1 2)
1

2. Logarithmic Mean Temperature Difference (LMTD):

3.

Overall heat transfer

coefficient:
4.

Inside film heat transfer coefficient:

1 1
1
|( ))| (

0
5. Dittus-Boelter Equation: 0.023 ()
6. Reynolds Number:
7. Prandtl Number:

8. Nusselts
Number:

Sr.
No.
1
2
3
4
Observations:
5
6

()

0C
Hot fuid temperature

Inlet (T1)
48.2
50.3
51.4
51.5
51.2
51.1

0.8

Outlet (T2)
42.2
44.5
46.2
47.2
47.5
47.8

Cold fluid temperature 0C

Inlet (T1)
Outlet (T2)
29.5
30.8
29.6
32.1
29.8
33.1
29.8
33.5
29.9
33.9
30.1
34.3

Calculations:
Constants: di = 1 cm;

= 2/4 = 0.7855

= 85

=
= 267 2
Following properties are taken as constants due to minimal variation in mean fluid temperature.
= 4.18 kJ/-k
= 1000
k /
/ = 0.005 //.
= 0.132

//./

= Cp * /k = 4186* .5*10-3 /0.6 = 3.488

Sr.
No.

Volumetric
flow
rate
of hot
fuid
(cc/s)

Amount
heat
transferred
(W) ofQ

Velocity
hot
fuid,of
u
(cm/s)

LMTD,

Overall
transfer
Ucoefficient
(W/m2heat
- K)

Tlm K

1
2
3
4
5
6

16.67
33.33
50.00
66.67
83.33
100.0
0

Sr.
No.
1
2
3
4
5
6

1/U (m2 0C/W)

0.002
6
0.001
5
0.001
2
0.001
1
0.001
0
0.000
9

1504.8
0
2909.2
8
3912.4
8
4313.7
6
4639.8
0
4965.8
4

1/u (m/s)-1

21.2
2
42.4
4
63.6
5
84.8
7
106.0
9
127.3
1

21.2
2
42.4
4
63.6
5
84.8
7
106.0
9
127.3
1

hi
(W/m-0C)
378.4
1
892.9
7
1,160.8
0
1,584.6
4
1,741.2
7
1,884.4
5

14.7
6
16.2
1
16.9
7
17.4
0
17.1
8
16.9
5

Re

4243.5
8
8487.1
6
12730.
74
16974.
33
21217.
91
25461.
49

381.875
2
672.369
6
863.405
3
928.377
5
1011.26
6
1097.28
1

Nu

0.59
1.15
1.74
2.42
2.47
2.59

Plot

1/U Vs 1/u^0.8
0.0030

y=
+ 0.0003
0.0006x

0.0025

1/U

0.0020
0.0015
0.0010
0.0005
0.0000

0.00

0.50

1.00
3.00

1/u^0.8

Error Analysis:
Q/Q
V = 1cc/s,
V/V

=
V/V +T/T

T=0.1oC.

dT /T
lm
lm
= [d(T1-T2)/(T1T2) +
(dT1/T1+dT2/T2)/ln(T1/T2)]
U/U
= Q/Q + dTlm/Tlm

1.50
3.50

2.00
4.00

2.50

Results:
The average value of Overall Heat Coefficient from the experiment is 825.76
W/m C with error
20

of 7.9%.
Hence U = 825.76 65.004 W/m2 0C