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[Rachel Tee]

Hi, 

 

Does anyone knows how to find the number of tubes needed for a 150m3 of packed bed reactor?

[latexman]

Ours are just big heat exchangers, so use a single pass, heat exchanger tube count table.  Perry's has them, other books do too, like Process Heat Transfer by Donald Q. Kern.

 

I also have an old correlation that may help:

D_o = 1.75d_o(nN_PT)^0.47

 

d_o     tube diameter, inch

n       number of tubes per pass

N_PT   number of tube passes per shell

D_o     inside shell diameter, inch

 

It's for a packed floating-head exchanger.  It will differ slightly for a fixed tube sheet, U-bend, or multi-pass exchanger.

Edited by latexman, 25 February 2021 - 08:00 AM.