Abstract: Taking lubricating oil as the heat transfer medium, heat transfer and pressure drop characteristics of integral pin-fin tubes were researched both in terms of theoretical and experiments. The results can provide a reference for pin-fin tube optimization. Under the condition of heat transfer medium longitudinally flushing the heat exchanger tube surface, the heat transfer and resistance experiments of plain tube and integral pin-fin tubes (in three different length) were carried out in the present work. The results show that the integral pin-fin tubes can improve the heat transfer ability of lubricating oil. The oil flow fluctuation caused by integral pin-fin tubes is intense and the heat transfer intension of integral pin-fin tubes is 2-6 times of plain tube at the same experiment condition. The length of fin makes main influence on pressure drop, and the pressure drop curve turns around when the values of Reynolds number reaches to 300.