Transient response of a plate-fin-and-tube heat exchanger considering different heat transfer coefficients in individual tube rows

Dawid Taler, Jan Taler and Katarzyna Wrona

Energy, 2020, vol. 195, issue C

Abstract: Experimental studies of multi-row plate-fin heat exchangers show that the highest average heat transfer coefficient on the air side occurs in the first row of tubes. In the next rows of tubes up to about the sixth row the heat transfer coefficient decreases.

Keywords: Air-cooled heat exchanger; Different heat transfer coefficients in the first and second tube row; Mathematical model; Unsteady-state; Experimental tests (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020
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DOI: 10.1016/j.energy.2020.117023

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