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Journal of Thermal Engineering and Applications

Twisted Tape Insert Effect on Heat Transfer Enhancement Placed in Smooth Tube: A Review

  1. Shivaji V. Mundhe
  2. R. S. Bindu

Abstract

Today heat exchangers are commonly used with twisted-tape inserts to improve convectiveheat transfer in various industries such as thermal power plants, chemical processing plants,air conditioning equipment, refrigerators, petrochemical, biomedical, and food processingplants. By using the twisted tape patch, the fluid flow swirls together, interrupting a thermalboundary layer on the surface of the pipeline. Heat exchanger thermal efficiency can beenhanced by heat transfer increase techniques. Tape insert is one of the techniques of passiveheat transfer augmentation and used in the utmost application of heat transfer, for example,food processes for air conditioning and refrigeration systems. Thus, various techniques ofenhancement were reviewed.
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