heat exchanger calculations
 

John Stumbles wrote:

Anyone know where I can get figures for calculating (allright, guesstimating
:-) rates of heat transfer through pipes for a diy heat store heat
exchanger? I'm planning to hang say a 25m coil of 10mm table Y copper pipe
in a tank connected to the CH primary and wondering what rates I can expect
to get water out at given inlet and outlet (and tank) temperatures.

Obviously I can suck it & see but it'd be nice to have some sort of
theoretical figures to start with (and encourage me to actually have a go
with the idea :-).

tia

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John Stumbles
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If a job's worth doing, it'll still be worth doing tomorrow.

The first things to determine is the required heat transfer rate. I.e
The desired flow rate - at some low enough flow rate the system will
work, but you need to make it work at the flow rate you require.


Chem. Engineering guys are really into this stuff and I know that being
able to scale up from a trial plant to a production plant (usually
correctly) is one of their skills.

There are three heat transfer mechainisms: into the water (force
convection), through the copper and out of the heat bank (natural
convection).

The only one which I think you can easily find out about at a
theoretical level is the heat through the copper.

As a guide I would say from experience 2/3 of standard cylinder (115
litres?) is heated from 20 to 60 by water at 70in - 55 out in 20 minutes
through a coil of 5 turns of 300mm diam made from 22mm copper pipe.

My guess is that the natural convection is perhaps the bottle neck? I.e.
the outside of the copper tube is about the same as the fluid inside.
This is likely to be more than proportionately the problem when scaling
down.

Another way of looking at it is to say if the water travelled at 1 m/s
in the 10mm tube it would be subjected to 25s of heating - how hot would
it get in that time - intuitively I'd guess pretty much the same
as the heat store.

This is just some interesting thinking aloud.

I'll be fascinated with the results.

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Ed Sirett - Property maintainer and registered gas fitter.
The FAQ for uk.diy is at www.diyfaq.org.uk
Gas fitting FAQ http://www.makewrite.demon.co.uk/GasFitting.html
Sealed CH FAQ http://www.makewrite.demon.co.uk/SealedCH.html

heat exchanger calculations
 

Which medium is going to be heating? The water in the pipe, or the water
outside the pipe?

"Ed Sirett" wrote in message
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John Stumbles wrote:

Anyone know where I can get figures for calculating (allright,
guesstimating
:-) rates of heat transfer through pipes for a diy heat store heat
exchanger? I'm planning to hang say a 25m coil of 10mm table Y copper
pipe
in a tank connected to the CH primary and wondering what rates I can
expect
to get water out at given inlet and outlet (and tank) temperatures.

Obviously I can suck it & see but it'd be nice to have some sort of
theoretical figures to start with (and encourage me to actually have a
go
with the idea :-).

tia

--
John Stumbles

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If a job's worth doing, it'll still be worth doing tomorrow.

The first things to determine is the required heat transfer rate. I.e
The desired flow rate - at some low enough flow rate the system will
work, but you need to make it work at the flow rate you require.


Chem. Engineering guys are really into this stuff and I know that being
able to scale up from a trial plant to a production plant (usually
correctly) is one of their skills.

There are three heat transfer mechainisms: into the water (force
convection), through the copper and out of the heat bank (natural
convection).

The only one which I think you can easily find out about at a
theoretical level is the heat through the copper.

As a guide I would say from experience 2/3 of standard cylinder (115
litres?) is heated from 20 to 60 by water at 70in - 55 out in 20 minutes
through a coil of 5 turns of 300mm diam made from 22mm copper pipe.

My guess is that the natural convection is perhaps the bottle neck? I.e.
the outside of the copper tube is about the same as the fluid inside.
This is likely to be more than proportionately the problem when scaling
down.

Another way of looking at it is to say if the water travelled at 1 m/s
in the 10mm tube it would be subjected to 25s of heating - how hot would
it get in that time - intuitively I'd guess pretty much the same
as the heat store.

This is just some interesting thinking aloud.

I'll be fascinated with the results.

--
Ed Sirett - Property maintainer and registered gas fitter.
The FAQ for uk.diy is at www.diyfaq.org.uk
Gas fitting FAQ http://www.makewrite.demon.co.uk/GasFitting.html
Sealed CH FAQ http://www.makewrite.demon.co.uk/SealedCH.html

heat exchanger calculations
 

"L Reid" wrote in message
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Which medium is going to be heating? The water in the pipe, or the water
outside the pipe?

The water outside the pipe (in the tank) is going to be heating the water in
the pipe (coming in cold from the mains, going out hot ... I hope)

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John Stumbles
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