Design and Fabrication of a U tube type BFU Heat Exchanger

Abstract

A heat exchanger is an equipment used for transferring heat from one medium to another. There is a wide application of u tube type heat exchanger in the field of industrial applications for its enhanced heat transfer characteristics and compact structure. Lots of researches are going on to improve the heat transfer rate of the heat exchanger. Here, we have fabricated the shell and tube heat exchanger with selecting the materials on the primary objective of enhancing the heat transfer effectiveness. We casted the tube in the u tube shape with different materials as Stainless steel and Copper. Then we compare the heat transfer Effectiveness between this u tubes. We are intended to show the merits of u tube type Shell and Tube heat exchanger to that of the conventional counter flow heat exchangers