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Investigation of the Effects of the Incident Flow Angle on Vibration Behavior in Heat Exchanger Tube Bundle

Usman Muhammad, Khushnood Shahab, Nizam Luqman Ahmad, Tanveer Waqas, Shafi Ahmad, Ayub Muhammad, Khan Hassan Farid, Rustam Behzad

Advances in Science and Technology. Research Journal

2019

Vol. 13, no 2

186--194

An experimental study on the incident flow angle effects on the vibration behavior was carried out on aluminum tube in parallel triangular tube bundle with P/D ratio of 1.375. Fluid elastic instability is the most fatal mechanism from all the vibration mechanisms and therefore must be dealt with a lot of attention. Experiments were performed on low speed water tunnel with the velocity of water ranges from 0.3 m/s to 0.7 m/s. The experiments were designed in a unique way to study the effects of incident flow angle on the vibration behavior. The monitored tube was mounted flexibly in an array of rigid tubes. The experiments were conducted on a flexible tube for different velocities ranging from 0.3 m/s to 0.7 m/s with different array rotated angles (0 to 90 degrees). It was observed that the vibration level was significantly high at 75 degree configuration as compared to other rotated angle configurations. It was also observed that the damping response is dispersed with all positive values, indicating that there is no instability in the tube.

Fretting wear analysis of different tube materials used in heat exchanger tube bundle

Abbas T., Khushnood S., Nizam L. A., Usman M.

Advances in Science and Technology. Research Journal

2017

Vol. 11, no 4

123--133

Research on heat exchange has been carried out for more than five decades because of its importance in process industries and power generation plants. Heat exchanger experiencing cross flow are vulnerable to flow-induced vibration. This vibration causes the interaction of tubes with the baffle resulting in a fretting wear of the tubes. The present study focuses on fretting wear analysis of different tube materials. Fretting wear tests were performed on aluminum, copper and stainless steel instrumented central tubes against mild steel baffle. For each tube material the tests were performed for three different test durations i.e. 60 minutes, 120 minutes and 180 minutes at a cross flow velocity of 0.55 m/s. It was observed that vibrational amplitude of the flexible test tube is affected by its weight. A scanning electron microscope was used to analyze and measure the sizes of wear scar. The results indicated that wear loss in case of aluminum tube is the highest while that in case of stainless steel tube is the lowest.