Course Objectives:
- Understand and explain the types of heat exchangers, their applications, construction and design.
- select an appropriate heat exchanger for a particular application with the thorough knowledge of design, performance characterization and advantages of the various types of heat exchangers.
- Use software packages applied for calculating the thermal performance of heat exchangers.
Course Contents:
- Fundamentals of Heat Transfer:
- Review of the different mechanisms of heat transfer
- The log mean temperature difference
- Different types of thermal resistance.
- Film coefficients and the overall heat transfer coefficient
- Shell and Tube Heat Exchangers:
- Design features
- Heat exchanger design
- Condensation and condenser design
- Reboilers and vaporizers, design procedure
- Performance calculations versus design calculations
- Computer aided design of shell and tube heat exchangers.
- Compact Heat Exchangers:
1st-Plate Fin Exchanger:
- Thermal and hydraulic characteristics under laminar and turbulent flow regimes
- Procedure for performance calculations
- Simple design for plate-fin heat exchanger
2nd- Plate and Frame heat Exchanger:
- Design features
- Advantages
- Plate corrugation
- Plate pressure drop
- Thermal performance calculations
- Countercurrent single pass plate exchanger calculations
- Two pass/two pass countercurrent flow plates exchanger calculations
- Sizing a plate exchanger for a specific duty – an example.
- Engineering Aspects Regarding Heat Exchangers:
- Layout and plot plan of heat exchangers for safe operation
- Heat exchanger installation
- Hydro-testing
- Prediction and remedy for failures in heat exchangers
- How to ratio failures in heat exchangers.
Target Audience:
Chemical and Mechanical engineering graduates.
