Heat Transfer through Finned Tube

[patelharshal]

Hello All

I want to calculate how much heat will be lost from a finned tube to the ambient air. Could anyone tell me. I tried looking up various sites and all of them do show different methods... so I am kind of confused now. Thanks

 

[IRstuff]

area * heat_transfer_coefficient * temperature_difference

is the basic equation. There are lots of heat transfer resources on the web, but they all have the same basic approach, Newton's Law.

TTFN

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[rmw]

What kind of fin, what kind of fin to tube attachment? There are so many variables in your question that it is kind of a 'how high is up' question.

Any good heat transfer text book will have a chapter or chapters on finned tube heat transfer.

rmw

 

[willard3]

Or a "how long is a rope" question.

A rope is twice as long as it is from the middle to one end...........

 

[vpl]

You might want to look at the Wolverine tube databooks:

http://www.wlv.com/products/thermal-management-databooks.html

They've been designing finned heat exchangers longer than most of us have been around.

Patricia Lougheed

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[boilerone]

patelharshal,

All typical heat transfer text books have special sections for the exact 'heat transfer through finned tubes' and similar including theory, formulas and practical examples.

Boilerone