International Research Journal of Mechanical Engineering Vol. 2 (2) pp. 080-086, February, 2014. © International Scholars Journals
Full Length Research Paper
An analysis into emission of a plate-fin heat exchanger with strip fins
*Farhad M. Pahlavi, Mohen B. Moshiri and Marjane Majidi
Department of Mechanical Engineering, Allameh Tabataba'i University,Tehran, Iran.
E-mail: [email protected]
Accepted 22 January, 2014
Abstract
The objective of this study is to analyze the heat transfer by radiation in a plate-fin heat exchanger. Strip fins are employed to enhance heat transfer. Compact heat exchanger has been in use for many applications, including automobile, radiators, air-conditioning systems and electronic cooling devices. However, one of the important application of them is in microturbine cycle, where hot stream enter the heat exchanger with temperature of 950°C. So, heat transfer by radiation is important due to high temperature. However, the results show that when there is forced convection in the plate-fin heat exchanger the radiation is negligible, because of low value of the fin height and flow length.
Key words: Radiation, plate-fin heat exchanger, heat transfer coefficient, forced convection.