Heat Transfer Lab
(0904446)
Short lab report
Faculty of Engineering & Technology
The University of Jordan, Amman – Jordan
Mechanical engineering department
Cross Flow exchanger
By
Fadi Nabil Matanes 0140386
Adnan alshobaky 0140545
Mohamad jehad alakhras 0141586
Mahmoud emad Suleiman 0141780
Ma’mon alazazma 0142556
Moayad osama alhaj 0142572
Introduction:
This experiment allows to determine the convection heat transfer coefficient and to investigate
for the variation of Nusselt and Reynolds numbers with the air flow past cylindrical tubes.
notations:
h: heat transfer coffecient (W/m2oC)
Nu , Re : Nusselt and Reynolds numbers respectively
H1 : velocity head (cm H2O)
V1 : velocity upstream of working section (m/s)
V : mean velocity past element (m/s)
M: cooling curve (W)
Data observed:
Some dimensions and properties refer to this experiment:
Ta: ambient air temperature = 30oC
Pa: ambient air pressure = 90 kPa
d: diameter of element = 0.01242 m
L: length of element = 0.0951 m
L1: effective length of element = L + 0.0084 = 0.1035 m
A: surface area of element = πdL = 0.00371 m2
A1: effective surface area of element = πdL1 = 0.00404 m2
m: mass of element = 0.1093 kg
Cp: specific heat of copper element = 380 J/kgoC
ρ: density of air at Ta=30oC = 1.1514 kg/m3
μ: viscosity of air at Ta=30oC = 186.016 *10-7 kg/m.s
k: Thermal conductivity of air at Ta 30oC = 26.522 *10-3
Table 1: data collected for apparatus
Temperature at different throttle opens
time
Head = 18.5 mm H2O Head = 10 mm H2O Head = 2.5 mm H2O
(sec)
100% 70% 40%
0 80 80 80
5 78 78 78
10 76 77 78
15 72 73 74
20 68 69 72
25 65 66 70
30 62 64 68
35 59 61 66
40 56 59 64
45 55 56 62
50 52 55 60
55 50 52 59
60 48 51 57
70 45 49 56
80 43 46 53
90 41 44 51
100 39 42 49
110 38 41 47
120 37 39 45
Sample calculation:
Throttle with 100% opens taken as sample:
log (T-Ta) at time with 15 sec = log (72-30) = 1.623249
V 1=237.3∗
√ H 1∗T a
Pa
=237.3∗
√1.85∗303
90000
=18.72767 m/s
V = 2V1 = 37.45533 m/s
h= -2.3026 (mC/A1) M = -23600 M = -23600 * -0.0075 = 177 W/m2oC
Nu = hd/k = 177*0.01242/ 26.522*10-3 = 82.88741
Re = ρVd/μ = 1.1415 * 37.45533 * 0.01242 / 186.016*10-7 = 28794.61
Results and graphs:
Table 2: Results for data collected part a
Time Temp.at Temp. at Temp. at
log(T-Ta) log(T-Ta) log(T-Ta)
(sec) 100% (K) 70% (K) 40% (k)
0 80 80 80 1.69897 1.69897 1.69897
5 78 78 78 1.681241 1.681241 1.681241
10 76 77 78 1.662758 1.672098 1.681241
15 72 73 74 1.623249 1.633468 1.643453
20 68 69 72 1.579784 1.591065 1.623249
25 65 66 70 1.544068 1.556303 1.60206
30 62 64 68 1.50515 1.531479 1.579784
35 59 61 66 1.462398 1.491362 1.556303
40 56 59 64 1.414973 1.462398 1.531479
45 55 56 62 1.39794 1.414973 1.50515
50 52 55 60 1.342423 1.39794 1.477121
55 50 52 59 1.30103 1.342423 1.462398
60 48 51 57 1.255273 1.322219 1.431364
70 45 49 56 1.176091 1.278754 1.414973
80 43 46 53 1.113943 1.20412 1.361728
90 41 44 51 1.041393 1.146128 1.322219
100 39 42 49 0.954243 1.079181 1.278754
110 38 41 47 0.90309 1.041393 1.230449
120 37 39 45 0.845098 0.954243 1.176091
Table 3: Results for data collected part b
Throttle H V1 V h
Re Nu
opens mm H2o m/s m/s W/m2oC
100% 18.5 18.72767 37.45533 177 28794.61 82.88741
70% 10 13.76885 27.53771 148.68 21170.22 69.62543
40% 2.5 6.884427 13.76885 103.84 10585.11 48.62728
Figure 1: throttle vs. Re Figure 2: throttle vs . Nu
Figure 3: throttle vs. h Figure 4: Re vs. Nu
Figure 5: time vs. log(T-Ta)
