Experimental evaluation of heat transfer efficiency of nanofluid in a double pipe heat exchanger and prediction of experimental results using artificial neural networks

In this study, heat transfer efficiency of water and iron oxide nanofluid in a double pipe heat exchanger equipped with a typical twisted tape is experimentally investigated and impacts of the concentration of nanofluid and twisted tape on the heat transfer efficiency are also studied. Experiments were conducted under the laminar and turbulent flow for Reynolds numbers in the range of 1000 to 6000 and the concentration of nanofluid was 0.01, 0.02 and 0.03 wt%. In order to model and predict the heat transfer efficiency, an artificial neural network was used. The temperature of the hot fluid (nanofluid), the temperature of the cold fluid (water), mass flow rate of hot fluid (nanofluid), mass flow rate of cold fluid (water), the concentration of nanofluid and twist ratio are input data in artificial neural network and heat transfer is output or target. Heat transfer efficiency in the presence of 0.03 wt% nanofluid increases by 30% while using both the 0.03 wt% nanofluid and twisted tape with twist ratio 2 increases the heat transfer efficiency by 60%. Implementation of various structures of neural network with different number of neurons in the middle layer showed that 1–10-6 arrangement with the correlation coefficient 0.99181 and normal root mean square error 0.001621 is suggested as a desirable arrangement. The above structure has been successful in predicting 72% to 97%of variation in heat transfer efficiency characteristics based on the independent variables changes. In total, comparing the predicted results in this study with other studies and also the statistical measures shows the efficiency of artificial neural network.

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