| Summary: | Features of the tubular type of heat exchanger were examined experimentally in the current study. A rig is fitted with a novel insert as a negative heat transfer increase technique. The core fluid used is air under steady heat flux and a turbulent discharge state (6000 ≤ <i>Re</i> ≤ 19,500) conditions. Two heat transfer augmentation inserts are employed; one is the basket turbulators utilized as a turbulator and placed inside the heat exchanger with a constant pitch ratio (PR = 150 mm), and the other is the basket turbulators together with twisted tape that are installed at the core of the basket turbulators. The measurements illustrated that the Nusselt number (<i>Nu</i>) was found to be higher by about 131.8%, 169.5%, 187.7%, and 206.5% in comparison with the plain heat exchanger for basket turbulators and the combined basket–twisted tape inserts with y/w = 6, 3, and 2, respectively. The highest thermal efficiency factor of the increased tubular heat exchanger is 1.63 times more elevated than that of the simple heat exchanger on average, due to a binary basket-quirky strip for a twisting percentage y/w equal to 2 under steady pumping energy. Further, practical correlations for the Nusselt number, as well as friction characteristics, were established and presented.
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