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Project 2 Guide 2016

1. The document provides guidelines for a chemical engineering project involving heat exchanger design. It outlines 16 steps to calculate heat transfer coefficients, determine heat transfer area and dimensions, and check the design against an initial estimate. 2. Key steps include assuming an overall heat transfer coefficient, calculating temperature differences, determining the required number of tubes and bundle diameter, selecting baffle spacing, and using provided equations and figures to find heat transfer coefficients on the tube and shell sides. 3. The guidelines specify iterating the design if the calculated overall heat transfer coefficient differs from the initial estimate by more than 30%. References for property data and equations are also included.

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Project 2 Guide 2016

1. The document provides guidelines for a chemical engineering project involving heat exchanger design. It outlines 16 steps to calculate heat transfer coefficients, determine heat transfer area and dimensions, and check the design against an initial estimate. 2. Key steps include assuming an overall heat transfer coefficient, calculating temperature differences, determining the required number of tubes and bundle diameter, selecting baffle spacing, and using provided equations and figures to find heat transfer coefficients on the tube and shell sides. 3. The guidelines specify iterating the design if the calculated overall heat transfer coefficient differs from the initial estimate by more than 30%. References for property data and equations are also included.

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ChE 333

PROJECT 2 GUIDE Date: 28.12.2016

1. Find necessary properties at given temperature.


2. Find unknown mass flowrate ().
3. Assume value of overall coefficient U0 .(Table1)
4. Calculate , , correction factor (F), .
5. Determine the heat transfer area required and calculate the number of tubes.
6. Choose a pitch configuration (Triangular, Square) and find the bundle diameter. (Equation
1)
7. Calculate the shell diameter. (Take the clearance factor into consideration from Figure 1).
8. Find jh from the Figure 2.
9. Calculate the tube side heat transfer coefficient from Equation 2.
10. Choose baffle spacing as 20% of shell diameter and find cross-flow area by Kerns
Method (Equation 3).
11. Find the superficial mass velocity (Equation 4) and equivalent diameter (Equation 5).
12. Find jh from the Figure 3.
13. Calculate the shell side heat transfer coefficient from Equation 7.
14. Determine the overall heat transfer coefficient (U).
15. Check the error percent between the initial guess and your result.
16. If the error between the calculated and the estimated heat transfer coefficients is more
than 30% go to Step 3.
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Table 1. Typical Overall Coefficients *

Equation 1*:

where Nt, number of tubes, number of tubes, Db, bundle diameter, mm, Do, tube outside
diameter, mm.
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Table 2. Constants for use in equation 1*.

Figure 1. Shell-bundle clearance*.


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Figure 2. Tube-side heat-transfer factor*.

Equation 2*:

Kerns Method:

Equation 3*:
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Equation 4*:

Equation 5*:

the shell-side equivalent diameter (hydraulic diameter:

Equation 6*:
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Figure 3. Shell-side heat-transfer factors, segmental baffles*.

Equation 7*:

References:

* Sinnott R., and Towler, G., 2009, Chemical Engineering Design, 5th Edition, Coulson&Richardsons
Chemical Engineering Series.

**You can also use Perrys Chemical Engineering Handbook, especially for chemical properties.

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