Design a Tube-shell heat exchanger.

[haih5]

Hi everybody.

Nothing i can do even i read carefully these books: Heat exchanger design handbook - T.Kuppan, Training material heat exchanger - Dr. Ali A.Rabah, Rules of thumbs, GPAS. I tried to proceed step by steps as they advised but it seems that isn't enough to have a good calculation. I must acknowledge that i'm a new guy in this field. Maybe I'm not aware of all actual problems during design procedure but I know that this is only a temporary difficulty. So What should I do now. Can anyone give some advices or a example and its solution.

Thank you very much, hope everyone get a promotion of your jobs.

[feune111962]

Hi,

After reading your message, I do not really understand where your problem is. Do you make hand calculations or do you use some software like TASC or other?

Can you tell us more?

[magdyharby1]

hi

please refer to the following link

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containing useful procedures for the heat exchanger calculation.

good luck

[rebornwilly]

Dear Haih,

i suggest you google the word " Wolverine Tube Heat Transfer Data Book", and try to get the chapter on "Delaware Method for Shell-side Rating of STHE". I used Kakac, S. "Heat Exchangers", the book provides good ground for calculation, but other than that, like Bell-Delaware method, u need to use also on Wolverine, or you can also use TEMA Standards.

TEMA Standards will be like ASME codes for pressure vessels..

Hope it helps you,

William Wan, AMIChemE.

[polaris44]

1 thing you must remember is that you cannot learn the whole thing in one night or short period.

It comes with experience. Get the help from senior/principal engineer.

[haih5]

Dear Haih,

i suggest you google the word " Wolverine Tube Heat Transfer Data Book", and try to get the chapter on "Delaware Method for Shell-side Rating of STHE". I used Kakac, S. "Heat Exchangers", the book provides good ground for calculation, but other than that, like Bell-Delaware method, u need to use also on Wolverine, or you can also use TEMA Standards.

TEMA Standards will be like ASME codes for pressure vessels..

Hope it helps you,

William Wan, AMIChemE.

Thank William Wan very much. Your advices were so useful. Following them I found a slide show, amazingly it's clear meaning and goes well with what I've read in part 2.6 "Delaware method for Shell-Side Rating of Shell and Tube Heat Exchangers" (Wolverine engineering data book II). I also uploaded it here. For a no longer day, I might ask you some questions. I hope you could answer me. Thank you again.

[haih5]

1 thing you must remember is that you cannot learn the whole thing in one night or short period.

It comes with experience. Get the help from senior/principal engineer.

Thank you for advising me. I see, so I won't stop learning and asking

[viswanathankasi2]

i too have confusions in designing heatexchangers.if anyone have solved problems or example datas pl. upload.

[A.Venugopal]

Dear Mr Kasi Viswanathan ,

If you need help with solved problems for process/ thermal design please go through : process Heat transfer by DQ Kern. This book was already posted in this forum by some one some time ago.
Should your need be for mechanical design of heat exchanger , you can start going through by studying " Heat exchanger design handbook" published by Hemisphere publishing corporation . This also , i remember was posted in this forum , ( or some where else, I cant remember exactly).
The observation made by Mr Polaris : " 1 thing you must remember is that you cannot learn the whole thing in one night or short period.It comes with experience. Get the help from senior/principal engineer." is worth repeating.
Further on if you had been attempting a design exercise and got stuck some where , please post the details of your difficulty in this forum . One of the several excellent gentlemen of this forum will come forward to help clarify.

Bye and best regards

Venugopal

[viswanathankasi2]

thank u sir.

[viswanathankasi2]

sir i want u r email id pl. post, i am working as u said. thks

[A.Venugopal]

It is avgpaul@gmail.com

Venugopal