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[processengbd]

Respected Engineers,

Though Designing Heat Exchanger need years of practice to master for young engineers like me find ourselves out of study materials. After the graduate school & joining a company I faced a period when there were too much gape in hand calculation & design software. What I mean is that when I tried to solve it by hand calculation I found myself overburdened with equations. On the other hand in simulation software I faced problems regarding "what value is important to analyze.

 

Now my work procedure is

 

# Simulate the exchanger in HYSYS..( Check if is it really possible to transfer heat. It does not show any error for unreal data.)

# Find the basic Heat Transfer Coefficient from GPSA or literature.

# Design  Excel sheet created by me to get the heat Transfer coefficient & velocity (If I have time)

# Transfer the HYSYS to Aspen EDR and design it in design mode. (Give me basic geometry by minimizing cost)

# Transfer the geometry to HTRI to do final sizing & documentation in design & rating mode.

 

 

References

More Theoretical

"Process Heat Transfer" by Donald Quentin Kern

HTFS Handbook

 

More Practical 

HTFS Design Report

HTRI Design Manual

"Practical Thermal Design of Shell-and-Tube Heat Exchangers" by Rajiv Mukherjee

"Effectively Design  Shell-and-Tube Heat Exchangers" AIChE CEP Feb 1998

Good Practice For Heat Exchanger Selection & Design by Manish V. Shaha (Very much helpful)

  

Air Cooler

Effectively Design Air-Cooled Heat Exchangers

HTFS Design Report

HTRI Design Manual

HTFS Handbook

Practical Thermal Design of air cooled heat exchangers by rajiv mukherjee

Excerpt from Rules of Thumb for Chemical Engineers, Fifth Edition, by Stephen Hall (Butterworth-

Heinemann, 2012). (Helped Me a lot)

 

And of course

TEMA & API 661

 

I am very much novice in learning heat exchanger design. Would very much appreciate if you gies help me by sharing your views.

 

Thank you  Pilesar for advising me to write this post.

 

Thanks all for your time

 

Sorry for all the wrong english.

 

Best Regards

processengbd

 

 

[engmedhat51]

Thank you for these useful information but,

 

Could You upload these refrences it will be more helpful

 

sorry for all the wrong english too.

[processengbd]

Sorry all of them are copyright protected & my company used quite a lot of money to get them.

[Padmakar Katre]

Hello,

 

Your English is really good and the same is your approach to designing the heat exchanger. The references you mentioned in your post are what even experience people do follow. All the best.