Date of Award
2011
Publication Type
Master Thesis
Degree Name
M.A.Sc.
Department
Mechanical, Automotive, and Materials Engineering
Keywords
Engineering, Thermo-Fluids.
Supervisor
Fartaj, Amir (Mechanical, Automotive and Materials Engineering)
Rights
info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
Creative Commons License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0 International License.
Abstract
An experimental investigation is performed to determine air side forced convective heat transfer and flow characteristics of wavy fin, serpentine, multi-port slab, crossflow microchannel heat exchanger. Experiments are conducted for 30 different operating conditions in single-phase air-to-ethylene glycol crossflow configuration. These operating conditions (752 < Re_a < 3165, and 23C < T_a,i < 46.5C) yield air side Nusselt number (Nu_a), and Colburn factor (j_a) of up to 8.4 and 0.009 respectively. The Nu_a and j_a obtained in these experiments are generally higher, and friction factor, f_a is generally lower than those found in the literature. Possible explanations for the apparent discrepancies are explored. A thorough uncertainty analysis is performed. Uncertainties in Nu_a, j_a, and friction factor f_a are approximately 4.8%, 5.2%, and 5.8% respectively. A large number of key heat exchanger performance parameters are also investigated in order to develop general correlations suitable for industrial applications and engineers.
Recommended Citation
Siddiqui, Faisal, "A Study of Cross-Flow Air Heating via a Multiport Serpentine Microchannel Heat Exchanger" (2011). Electronic Theses and Dissertations. 209.
https://scholar.uwindsor.ca/etd/209