Performance Investigation of Commercially Available Corrugated Plate Heat Exchanger (PHE) using Nanomaterial in Base Fluid

The plate heat exchanger concept, with flow-through channels formed by corrugated plates and the heat transfer taking place through the thin plates, is an extremely efficient heat exchange technique. The objective of this paper is investigating performance of Plate Heat Exchanger using Al2O3 nanomaterial in water and finding out overall heat transfer coefficient of a commercially available gasketed plate heat exchanger using modified Wilson plot technique. Experimentation was done on a commercially available PHE. 1% Al2O3 Nanofluid and Water was used as a working fluid for both hot and cold sides respectively. Maintaining the hot and cold inlet temperature constant, mass flow rate of water at the inlet of hot and cold sides were changed. Temperature at the outlet of hot and cold sides were measured each time and tabulated. Reynolds numbers was maintained between 500