Experiment 11

Objective
To determine the overall heat transfer coefficient of coil vessel flow heat exchanger for parallel
and counter-current flow

Apparatus
The coil vessel heat exchanger is consists of a vessel and a coil. The vessel contains cold water
heated up by a coil within the cold water. Hot water flows through the coil. Also, the water in the
vessel is stirred by a propeller that produces an increase in heat transfer while spinning.

The overflowing drainage system that goes through the vessel is a tube that on its upper part allows
the cold water flow to exit during the process of continuous supply. The exchanger has 5
thermocouples: 3 for measuring cold water temperature and 2 for measuring hot water temperature.

Fig. 1 Coil Vessel Heat Exchanger

Experimental Procedure
1) Position the valves of hot and cold circuits correctly
 2) Ensure that water heating tank is full of water above the level switch AN-1
3) Verify that the Valve AV-9 is opened while valve AV-10 is closed
4) Switch on the heating element AR-1 and set the temperature of the heating tank T16 to
60 0C
5) Start the stirrer
Switch on the pump AB-1 and set the flow rate of hot circuit to a suitable value. Also set
the flow rate of cold circuit until the system stabilizes to a temperature of 60 0C
6) Record the temperatures and water flow rates
7) Repeat the experiment by keeping flow rate of hot circuit (m1) constant and varying the
flow rate of cold circuit (m2) for different water temperatures in the tank i-e T16=500C,
550C
8) Finally calculate the overall heat transfer coefficient and effectiveness for coil heat
exchanger

Observations and Calculations

∆T1 = T4 − T1
∆T2 = T5 − T3

∆T1 − ∆T2
∆T𝑙𝑚 =
∆T
ln (∆T1 )
2

Overall heat transfer coefficient can be calculated as

q = U × A × ∆T𝑙𝑚

Where
W
U = Overall heat transfer coefficient ( )
m2 . K

𝑞 = 𝑚ℎ × 𝑐𝑝 × (𝑇4 − 𝑇5 )
A = Total area of heat exchanger in the inner side of inner tube
𝐷𝑖𝑛𝑡 + 𝐷𝑒𝑥𝑡
A = πL ( )
2
 Test 1 Test 2 Test 3 Test 4
T16
T1
T2
T3
T4
T5
ṁ1
ṁ2
∆T1
∆T2
∆Tlm
A
Cp
q
U

Specimen Calculations
Discussion

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