Practical Thermal Design of Shell-and-Tube Heat Exchangers

Table of contents:

Chapter 3: Thermal Design and Optimization of Single-Phase Heat Exchangers

3.1 Broad Objectives of Thermal Design

3.2 Data to be Furnished for Thermal Design

3.3 Tubeside

3.3.1 Effects of tubeside velocity

3.3.2 Heat transfer coefficient

3.3.3 Pressure drop

CASE STUDY 3.1: OPTIMIZING TUBESIDE DESIGN

3.3.4 Importance of stepwise calculations for viscous liquids

CASE STUDY 3.2: STEPWISE CALCULATIONS

3.4 Shellside

3.4.1 Shell type

3.4.2 Tube layout pattern

3.4.3 Tube pitch

3.4.4 Baffling

3.4.5 Stream analysis

CASE STUDY 3.3: VARIATION OF TEMPERATURE PROFILE DISTORTION FACTOR WITH BAFFLE SPACING

CASE STUDY 3.4: OPTIMIZING BAFFLE DESIGN

3.4.6 Reduction of shellside pressure drop

CASE STUDY 3.5: USE OF DOUBLE-SEGMENTAL BAFFLES

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