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Mechanical Engineering - MEEN 550

Design of Heat Exchangers

  • Introduce Heat Exchangers
  • Discuss Recuperation and Regeneration
  • Determine Transfer Processes
  • Discuss Geometry of Construction
  • Analyze Tubular Heat Exchangers
    • Double- pipe Heat Exchangers
    • Shell-and-Tube Heat Exchangers
    • Spiral-Tube Heat Exchangers
  • Analyze Plate Heat Exchangers
    • Gasketed Plate Heat Exchangers
    • Spiral Plate Heat Exchangers
    • Lamella Heat Exchangers
  • Analyze Extended Surface Heat Exchangers
    • Plate-Fin Heat Exchangers
    • Tubular-Fin Heat Exchangers
  • Introduce Heat Transfer Mechanisms
  • Discuss Flow Arrangements
  • Discuss Applications
  • Select the Heat Exchangers
  • Introduce Basic Design Methods of Heat Exchangers
  • Discuss Arrangement of Flow Path in Heat Exchangers
  • Introduce Basic Equation in Design
  • Introduce Overall Heat Transfer Coefficient
  • Analyze the LMTD Method for Heat Exchanger Analysis
    • Parallel and Counterflow Heat Exchangers
    • Multipass and Crossflow Heat Exchangers
  • Analyze the NTU Method for Heat Exchangers Analysis
  • Discuss Heat Exchanger Design calculation
  • Apply Heat Exchanger Design Methodology
  • Introduce Forced Convection Correlations for the Single-Phase Side of Heat Exchangers
  • Analyze Laminar Forced Convection
  • Hydrodynamically Developed and Thermally developing Laminar Flow in Smooth Circular Ducts
  • Simultaneously Developing Laminar Flow in Smooth Ducts
  • Laminar Flow through Concentric Annular Smooth Ducts
  • Analyze the Effect of Variable Physical Properties
  • Laminar flow of Liquids
  • Laminar Flow in Gases
  • Introduce Turbulent Forced Convection
  • Introduce Turbulent Flow in smooth Straight Noncircular Ducts
  • Analyze Effect of Variable Physical Properties in Turbulent Forced Convection
  • Turbulent Liquid Flow in Ducts
  • Turbulent Gas Flow in Ducts
  • Discuss Summery of forced Convection in Straight Ducts
  • Establish Heat Transfer from Smooth-Tube Bundles
  • Analyze Heat Transfer in Helical Coils and Spirals
  • Nusselt Numbers of Helical Coils – Laminar Flow
  • Nusselt Numbers of Spiral Coils – Laminar Flow
  • Nusselt Numbers of Helical Coils – Turbulent Flow
  • Analyze Heat Transfer in Bends
  • Heat Transfer in 900 Bends
  • Heat Transfer in 1800 Bends
  • Introduce Heat Exchanger Pressure Drop and Pumping Power
  • Analyze Tube-Side Pressure Drop
  • Circular Cross Sectional Tubes
  • Noncircular Cross Sectional Ducts
  • Determine Pressure Drop in Tube Bundles in Crossflow
  • Analyze Pressure Drop in Bends and Fittings
  • Pressure drop in Bends
  • Pressure Drop in Fittings
  • Determine Pressure Drop for Abrupt Contraction, Expansion, and Momentum Change
  • Discuss Heat Transfer and Pumping Power Relationship
  • Introduce Double-Pipe Heat Exchangers
  • Introduce Thermal and Hydraulic Design of inner Tube
  • Analyze Thermal and Hydraulic Analysis of Annulus
  • Establish Hairpin Heat Exchanger with Bare Inner Tube
  • Establish Hairpin Heat Exchanger with Multitube Finned Inner Tube
  • Analyze Parallel – Series Arrangements of Hairpins
  • Find Total Pressure Drop
  • Discuss Design and Operational Features
  • Introduce Shell-and-Tube Heat Exchangers
  • Introduce Basic Components
  • Discuss Shell Types
  • Discuss Tube Bundle Types
  • Discuss Tubes and Tube Passes
  • Introduce Tube Layout
  • Introduce Baffle Type and Geometry
  • Determine Allocation of streams
  • Calculate Design Procedure of Heat Exchanger
  • Find Preliminary Estimation of Unit Size
  • Rate of the Preliminary Design
  • Find Shell-Side Heat Transfer and Pressure Drop
  • Find Shell-Side Heat Transfer Coefficient
  • Find Shell-Side Pressure Drop
  • Find Tube-Side Pressure Drop
  • Analyze Bell-Delaware Method
  • Shell-Side Heat Transfer and Pressure Coefficient

Prepared by Dr. Pankaj Chandra, P.E.