HEAT AGUMENTATION OF PARALLEL FLOW HEAT

EXCHANGER BY USING NATUTRAL FLUIDS

ABSTRACT
Heat exchanger is energy exchange equipment it transfers the heat from one working medium to
another working medium, with maximum rate and minimum investment. It has been wildly used aerospace and
so many other fields. In present experimental work, we used natural fluid as cold fluid in parallel flow heat
exchanger. And Experimental Set Up is also prepared as per requirement. Aloe vera is used as cold fluid and
water is used as hot fluid. Tested the heat exchanger in parallel flow configuration. Observations are noted down
for mass flow rate and temperature difference of hot fluid and cold fluid. On the basis of observations, calculated
the LMTD, overall heat transfer coefficient and effectiveness for parallel flow configuration. Also plotted the
graph for the same and concluded the work.

KEYWORDS: Heat exchanger, Parallel flow, Aloe vera

performance is reduced. This type of idea can utilize
low expansive type of heat exchanger instead of
I. INTRODUCTION
modern heat exchangers. The special ability of
Heat exchanger is a device used to natural resources always seems to be give lower
transfer heat between one or more fluids. They are investment and low cost of production. But, we are
widely used in space heating, refrigeration, air in need to improve the efficiency of heat exchanger
conditioning, power stations, chemical plants, with some artificial fluid for produce better device.
petrochemical plants and petroleum production So, we use aloe vera as the cold fluid.
etc..,. The way of heat transfers are conduction,
convection, radiation. The parallel flow type heat II. REASONS FOR SELECTION
exchanger always requires different fluid region like The heat transfer coefficient and pressure drop are
hot and cold water. Unless the cold water removed the most significant variables in reducing the size
high heat from hot water region, the effectiveness of and cost of a heat exchanger. An increase in the heat
heat exchanger slightly increased rather than transfer coefficient generally leads to another
ordinary conditions. In this experiment, we use advantage of reducing the temperature driving force,
natural source of fluid as cold region even their which increases the second law efficiency and
decreases entropy generation. This paper is based on
natural fluid as aloe vera which is easily cultivated
IV. EXPERIMENTAL SETUP
from the agriculture land.
PHOTOGRAPHY OF THE
III. METHODOLOGY EXPERIMENT

A. LAYOUT

A. Aloe vera juice preparation

Aloe Vera jelly has taken from dry land area
because wet land aloe Vera jelly which
contains more moisture so high moisture

TABLE I: VARIOUS TEMPERATURES jelly can’t fulfill our requirement. Always

dry land Aloe Vera jelly which can be utilize
Temperature Specification
low moisture and density. Then aloe vera
𝐓𝐡𝐢 Hot water inlet jelly is sliced into small piece to make aloe
temperature (°c) vera juice by grind well. The combination of
𝐓𝐡𝐨 Hot water outlet Aloe Vera with water as cold fluid and
temperature (°c) which will allow passing through heat

𝐓𝐜𝐢 Cold water inlet exchanger at various ratios of their presents.

temperature (°c) Finally implementation of Aloe Vera
concentration is set to be good fluid for heat
𝐓𝐜𝐨 Cold water outlet
exchanger.
temperature (°c)
V. RESULT AND DISCUSSION

In our project we changed the cold fluid in

the parallel flow heat exchanger. The cold
fluid was combination of water and Aloe
Vera juice at various ratios. In future the
implementation of effectiveness will
improve by various fluids, here by we
represent the natural fluid Aloe Vera juice
which place an important role for cooling
purpose that kind of fluid has taken as VI. CONCLUSION
combination of cold fluid with normal water.
we concluded that the combination of
Here the Aloe Vera juice with water which
(water+ Aloe Vera juice) in the form of various
improves the better effectiveness with low
ratio, which always produce better effectiveness in
expensive cost.
parallel flow heat exchanger. The ordinary water
type heat exchanger is providing 0.2 and the
combination of Aloe Vera juice and Water in (1:4)
concentration provides 0.26 and the combination of
Ratio of Aloe Vera in water vs. Aloe Vera and Water in (2:3) concentration provides
Effectiveness 0.32. Hence aloe vera provides better heat transfer in
parallel flow heat exchanger.

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