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Check List For Reviewing of Shell Tube Heat Exchanger Drawings PDF

This document provides a checklist for reviewing shell and tube heat exchanger drawings, including checking design codes, dimensions, materials, pressures, temperatures, supports, connections, notes, and orientation of components. It lists requirements to ensure drawings include all necessary information for manufacturing and installing the heat exchanger properly.

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Check List For Reviewing of Shell Tube Heat Exchanger Drawings PDF

This document provides a checklist for reviewing shell and tube heat exchanger drawings, including checking design codes, dimensions, materials, pressures, temperatures, supports, connections, notes, and orientation of components. It lists requirements to ensure drawings include all necessary information for manufacturing and installing the heat exchanger properly.

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Check List for Reviewing of Shell & Tube Heat

Exchanger Drawings (PDF)


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Anup Kumar Dey

This article will highlight a few of the points that are required to be checked while
reviewing the Shell & Tube Heat exchanger. The list is not exhaustive but provides a
simple guideline for the beginners.

Basic Checks for Shell & Tube Heat Exchanger


Check Pressure Design Code to be applied and Applicable local regulations to be
applied.
Check completeness and correctness of the information, dimension, impingement
plate, gasket recommendation, the applicability of IBR, TEMA type and
configuration, etc. are available on the datasheet.
Maximum design temperature and minimum design metal temperature
Ensure the latest issue of process data-sheet is followed.
Check if any specific note to be highlighted like anodic protection or sloping shell,
any special service requirements like NACE/Sour service, etc. are applicable which
puts restrictions on material requirements.
Ensure adequacy of shell Internal Diameter to accommodate all tubes with given
pitch and orientation, the required number of tie rods, considering the provision of
impingement plate, minimum U tube radius, and groove width, ligament as per
TEMA recommendation is checked before starting design work.
Design codes including wind, seismic load and any reference books with edition
number and year of publication and amendments if any have been specified and
used in the calculations.
Applicable standard specifications, Job specifications and standards with their
revision numbers.
Nozzle schedule indicating the size, rating, and nozzle neck thickness, projections
and surface finish of gasket surface of nozzle flange (projection to suit insulation
thickness and facing to suit gasket material), Nozzle location, Orientation, etc.
Test pressure including any temperature correction
Drawing block, drawing number and distribution is in line with project procedure.
Reference drawing numbers of standard drawings are indicated if details are not
given on the drawing.
The reference datasheet number with the latest revision is indicated in the drawing.

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Figure Showing Typical Shell & Tube Heat Exchangers

Provision of Instrument connection as per TEMA and Provision of vent drain


connection for testing
Support details (lugs, saddles) indicating size, numbers & PCD of foundation bolts.
Foundation bolts to be specified with their size and thread pitch in mm.
Typical applicable weld details of plates, Nozzles and other attachments depending
upon the material of construction., the thickness of parts. (Special attention
required. for cladding/lining)
Provision of standard attachments like Nameplate, Earthing boss,
Tube expansion requirements for strength welded tubes.

Adequacy and applicability of general notes


Ensure that the statement “In general the provisions of ASME / TEMA have to be
followed in addition to the local company specification.”
On-site storage required for more than 12 months prior to installation.
Surface preparation and painting, the surface finish of flange faces with respect to
specified gaskets to be specifically checked
In the case of the stacked heat exchanger, a note stating that the final hydro-test
shall be conducted in stacked condition must be added.
Surface preparation and protection requirements
For stacked heat exchangers, the requirement of shim plates as required for
adjustment shall be included.

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Sliding support anchor bolts should be hand tightened and for high-temperature
exchanger Teflon / graphite/Stainless steel sheet below sliding saddle to be
indicated with the responsibility of its provision by supplier.
Grooving requirements for shell side clad tube sheets.
In the case of the cryogenic exchanger, wooden saddles/Foam glass of adequate
thickness below saddle plates to be indicated.

TEMA minimum requirements for Shell & Tube Heat Exchanger


Shell, channel thickness,
Tie rods – Nos. & diameters.
Baffles – thickness
Partition Plates thickness
Grooves /Steps
Tube Holes, Bolt size,
Impingement Plate,
Minimum gasket width & minimum acceptable bolt diameter.

1. Check if the test ring is included for ‘U’ tubes kettle type & floating heat exchangers.
The testing arrangement as required for other types has also been included in the
supplier’s scope.
2. Chemical cleaning connections requirements, Thermowell connection requirements,
Pressure gauge connection requirements
3. Check if lifting lugs, jack screws, locating pins are provided.

In the case of ‘U’ tubes

Smallest radius of tube bend not to be less than 1.5 times O.D. of tube
Check requirement of Heat Treatment for inner two rows for C.S. tubes bend
Check requirement of solution annealing of S.S. tube bends
For large diameter, bundles check for U-tube rear support requirements.

1. Check the tube to tube-sheet joint critically with respect to joint requirements as per
ASME Sec. VIII div-1 appendix ‘A’ provisions.
2. Check details for Tie rods, spacers, runner bars, sliding strips, sealing strips (if
applicable are indicated)
3. Check vent/drain notches are provided on baffles in the Horizontal Heat exchanger.
4. Check if pulling/lifting arrangement is provided for removable tube bundles and
clear space required for pulling bundle is shown in dotted in the schematic.
5. Check vent/drain holes are provided at the highest & lowest points on pass partition
plates.
6. If expansion bellow is required, proper details are included for design by specialist
vendor including the applicable design codes.
7. Vertical heat exchangers which require expansion bellows, a note near expansion
bellow sketch must indicate the minimum civil cut-out size required to clear the tie-
rod lugs (For this purpose assume that the bellows design by the vendor will have
the tie-rod provision)

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8. Check section lines are appropriate for materials of construction.

Check about Hold List


Instrument Nozzles
Orientation of nozzles
The orientation of attachment like a) Lifting lugs b) Nameplate, Earthing boss
Orientation foundation bolts / support lugs / saddle & Position of fixed & sliding
support

1. Check completion and correctness of Nozzle Orientation


2. Specific requirements of relative locations are maintained as per process datasheet
3. If some special gasket or its equivalent has been specified, fix the criteria of
equivalence in the job specification.
4. Post weld heat treatment required for process reasons or for weld overlaid bonnet
or channel
5. Ensure that nozzle orientation also indicates the expansion bellows tie-rod lugs
orientation
6. Ensure that squad-check comments are incorporated
7. Ensure that drawing is in line with P & ID and equipment modeling.
8. The number of cycles to be considered for bellows expansion joint
design.
9. Fatigue analysis required for flanged and flued expansion joint, and the number of
cycles to be considered.
10. Additional requirements for low chrome steels in high temp. or high-pressure
hydrogen service.
11. Materials of construction.
12. Weight (empty, full of water and operating)
13. Painting requirement.

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