International Research Journal of Engineering and Technology (IRJET) e-ISSN: 2395-0056 Volume: 04 Issue: 08 | Aug -2017 www.irjet.net p-ISSN: 2395-0072 © 2017, IRJET | Impact Factor value: 5.181 | ISO 9001:2008 Certified Journal | Page 961 ANALYSIS OF DOUBLE PIPE HEAT EXCHANGER WITH HELICAL FINS Bandu A.Mule 1 , Prof.D.N.Hatkar 2 ,Prof.M.S.Bembde 3 1 ME student, Department of Mechanical Engineering, MGM’s COE, Nanded, Maharashtra, India. 2 Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, MGM’s COE, Nanded, Maharashtra, India. 3 Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, TCOE, Nerul, Mumbai, Maharashtra, India. ---------------------------------------------------------------------***--------------------------------------------------------------------- Abstract – In this present day double pipe heat exchanger is the most common type of heat exchanger widely use in oil refinery and other large chemical processes because it suits high pressure application. To determine the performance of double pipe heat exchanger, the hot fluid has made to flow through inner tubes and cold fluid is flow through the outer tubes. The main objective is to design the DPHE with different angles of fins. & to study the flow and temperature field inside the tubes. Also, attempts were made to investigate the effects and heat transfer characteristics of a DPHE for six different inclination of fins namely 0  , 5 , 10         T   of DPHE has made by using CATIA V5 and meshing is generated by using hyper mesh. The flow and temperature field inside the tube have studied using ANSYS FLUENT R18.0. The work determines with better enhancements in heat transfer rate and overall heat transfer coefficient using helical fins. Key Words: Helical fins, overall heat transfer coefficient, heat transfer rate, mass flow rate, CFD. 1. INTRODUCTION The heat exchanger is a device used to transfer the heat from the hot fluid to cold fluid with maximum rate and minimum investment. The heat exchanger is an important device in various thermal systems for e.g. condenser and evaporator in refrigeration systems, boiler & condenser in steam power plants etc. The heat exchanger has wide variety of industrial applications such as process industries, chemical industries, food industries etc. Now there is need of the compact heat exchangers to give required heat transfer rate with minimum space requirement. The helical fins on the inner tube increase the area available for the heat transfer and the helical fins on inner tube increases the turbulence. With helical fins at larger pitch, the efficiency of the heat transfer enhancement however is rather low when the total length of heat exchanger is fixed. At high Reynolds number, pressure drop will increase sharply if the helical pitch decreases. Due to this reason the heat transfer enhancement with helical fins is more suitable at low Reynolds number. The worldwide researchers are making hard efforts to find out suitable alternatives for heat exchangers with different geometry and varying parameters which effects on performance of heat exchanger. Now days helix fins has became blessings for researchers. Balarama Kundu et al. [1] had experimentation on beneficial design of shell and tube heat exchangers for attachment of longitudinal fins with trapezoidal profile. In this experimentation, the rectangular and trapezoidal fin shapes longitudinally attached to the fin tubes. The results show that the heat transfer rate was lesser than the rectangular cross section keeping the outer shell diameter is a constant along with all other constraints of a heat exchanger. N. Sathiya Narayanan et al. [2] had done modelling and simulation of helical fluid flow through double start screw type heat exchanger. In this experimentation efficient heat transfer is achieved by increasing the area of heat transfer by providing fin arrangement. The result shows that an efficient heat transfer is achieved as heat transfer coefficient is more. Shewale omkar M et.al. [3] have performed experimental investigation of double pipe heat exchanger with helical fins on the inner rotating tube. In this analysis the Nusselt Number obtained from the experimental results are higher than that of theoretical values obtained from Dittus-Boelter equation. The helical fins over the inner tube results into the increase in the heat transfer area and reduction in the hydraulic diameter of the flow channel. The result shows that the Nusselt number for the inner tube with helical fins is 4 times higher than that of the plain inner tube for stationary condition. The Nusselt number at the speed 50 rpm and 100 rpm are 36 % and 64% more than that of stationary inner tube. Vinous M Hameed et al. [4] have carried out an experimental study of turbulent flow heat transfer and pressure loss in a double pipe heat exchanger with triangular fins. The working fluids were air flowing in the annular pipe and water through the inner circular tube. The results shows that the heat dissipation 3.815 to 5.405times than that of smooth tube. . In the lowest space the average increment in nusselt number is about 98% over the smooth tube heat exchanger. Yu et al. [5] performed to compute the heat transfer and pressure drop characteristics of tubes with internal wave-like longitudinal fins. They conducted two cases for this work were carefully examined, using air as a working fluid. For the tube of type A, since the inner channel of the insertion is not blocked, its flow cross-section area only differs mildly from that without the insertion. While for the tube of type B the cross-section of the inner tube is totally blocked. The wave-like fins are within the annulus and span its full width. There are total 20 waves. The outer tube was electrically heated. Pressure taps were no