DESIGN AND ANALYSIS OF AIR COOLED CONDENSER BY USING COPPER AND ALUMINIUM TUBES

Mechanical Engineering

Heat exchanger is been used even since from 19th century. It is used to transfer heat by mode of Convection. It is been used in a various fields like power plant, steel plants, oil refineries to reduce the temperature of working fluid & to take condensate out from hot steam. In our project we have chosen Aluminum and Copper tubes a forced draft cooling system with a header boxes & tubes .We are about to use two types of tubes for our project. Theoretical calculation of heat transfer co-efficient for Al & Cu tubes will be calculated & compared with experimental values. Cost effectiveness and heat transfer wise the best one will be found. In our project we have chosen a forced convection mode to cool the working fluid. Material selection of tubes plays a vital role in heat transfer rate. Some of the commonly used material for tubes are Copper, Aluminum, Stainless Steel, Duplex. In our project we have selected Copper and Aluminum tubes for study. We have built an experimental set-up with a header box , copper and aluminium tubes , and a fan. All the parameters are needed to calculate heat transfer rate is been analyzed and noted down.

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