Monday, July 16, 2007
Let's some interesting articles from Dr.R. Shankar Subramanian, University of Clarkson
How to Design a Shell-and-Tube Heat Exchanger
A lot has been written about designing heat exchangers, and specifically, shell-and-tube heat exchangers. For example, the book by Kern (1) published in 1950 details basic design procedures for a variety of heat exchangers. Since the publication of that book, with the advent of computers, design procedures have become sophisticated even though the basic goals of design remain the same. Because it is possible to specify an infinite number of different heat exchangers that would perform the given service (heat load), we have to identify the specific heat exchanger that would do it subject to certain constraints. These constraints can be based on allowable pressure drop considerations either on the shell-side or on the tube-side or both, and usually include that of minimizing the overall cost. An article in 1979 by Taborek (2) outlines how heat exchanger design techniques evolved over the years since the appearance of the book by Kern. More recent developments are discussed in numerous articles in the magazine “Chemical Engineering.”
Here is a step-by-step approach to specifying a new shell-and-tube heat exchanger. We shall focus on sensible heat transfer, and make extensive use of Chapter 11 in Perry’s Handbook (3). From hereon, references to page numbers, table numbers, and equation numbers are from Perry’s Handbook.
R. Shankar Subramanian, University of Clarkson
Labels: Convection, Heat Exchanger, Heat Transfer
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