Nanoadditives are a type of heat transfer enhancement techniques adopted in heat exchangers to improve the performance of industrial plants through improvement of the thermal properties of base fluids. Recently, various types of inserts with nanofluids are adopted to enhance the thermal performance of double pipe heat exchangers. In the current article, TiO 2 /water nanofluid with multiple twisted tape inserts was investigated as a hybrid enhancement technique of heat transfer in straight pipes. The investigations were carried out experimentally and numerically at Reynolds numbers varied from 5000 to 20,000. Using nanofluid with 0.1% TiO 2 nanoparticles volume fraction demonstrated enhanced heat transfer with slight increase in pressure drop. Results are showing a maximum increase of 110.8% in Nusselt number in a tube fitted with quintuple twisted tape inserts with 25.2% increase in the pressure drop. However, as the article is representing a part of specified book on heat exchangers, the literature has been extended to provide sufficient background to the reader on the use of nanotech, twisted inserts, and hybrid of compound nanofluids and inserts to enhance heat transfer processes.
A numerical analysis aiming to gain an understanding of the physical behavior for thermal and fluid flow attributes in tubes fitted with quadruple plain and modified twisted tapes inserts (which all occupy an equal volume) for the turbulent Reynolds number range (5,000 to 20,000) is carried out. The tube inserted with quadruple modified twisted tapes showed better thermal enhancement when compared with plain tube and tubes induced with quadruple plain twisted tapes. The simulation included modification on tapes as cuts with; circular, half circle on side, triangular and rhomboidal shapes. The obtained results showed a maximum increase of 31.12% is observed in the Nusselt number by using tube fitted with quadruple circular cuts twisted tapes inserts than that observed with the plain tube. And the higher friction factor obtained of the tube fitted with quadruple circular cuts twisted tapes inserts are up to 32.65% than that of the plain tube.
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