抄録
This paper presents a method for the determination of effectiveness on plate-fin and tube heat exchangers as a function of the parameters, viz. the thermal capacity ratio, the number of transfer unit and the flow arrangement. The analytical model of the heat exchanger which is adopted that of a multi-pass crossflow heat exchanger with one fluid mixed and another unmixed. For three kinds of flow arrangements of plate-fin and tube heat exchangers, equations on the effectiveness were obtained and the experimental verification of these equations was also performed.
In addition, this paper is concerned with method which obtains the fin efficiency of the plate-fin and tube heat exchangers. It is usual practice to evaluate the fin efficiency by assuming that the uniform heat transfer and other suppositions. In this paper, a more realistic determination of fin efficiency is reported, which take into account the heat transfer distribution over the fin surface. It was confirmed that the results of fin efficiency by usual manner were almost equal to that of the realistic estimation in this study.
