By:Reevu priyam adhikary & Soumya pritish

A Heat Exchanger is an equipment used for the efficient transfer of heat from one medium to another , using either walls as a barrier so that the mediums do not make any contact or they may be made to be in direct contact to each other. The Heat Exchanger used by us for the experiment was of no contact type.

Objectives Working Principle Background Experimental Strategy Applications Sample calculation Results

To study the working principle To determine the heat exchanger efficiency and compare it against its theoretical value

Heat would be transferred from the hotter fluid to the colder one , such that the temperature at the hot fluid exit would be as close to that of the cold fluid as possible.

Shell and tube heat exchanger are one of the most common equipment found in all plants. How it works?

Measured Variables
Hot water flow Hot water inlet temperature Hot water outlet temperature Cooling water flow Cooling water inlet temperature Cooling water outlet temperature

BOILERS CONDENSERS STEAM ENGINE LOCOMOTIVES SURFACE CONDENSERS

SERIAL NO.

INLET TEMP HOT FLUID(C)

OUTLET TEMP HOT FLUID(C)

INLET TEMP COLD FLUID(C)

OUTLET TEMP COLD FLUID(C)

HOT WATER MASS FLOW RATE (Kg/s) 0.0211 0.0205

COLD WATER MASS FLOW RATE (Kg/s) 0.0398 0.0452

1ST RUN 2ND RUN

57.5 57.9

49.2 48.5

31.9 32.0

37.3 35.6

Volume of water collected=1000 cm3 time taken for hot water= 47.3 s Mh=.0211kg/s

Time taken for cold water=25.1 s Mc=.0398 kg/s

R=(Thi -Tho)/(Tco-Tci) =1.54 P=(Tco-Tci)/(Thi-Tci) =0.21 From graph we get that F =0.95 DTLM = ((Thi-Tco) (Tho Tci)) / ln[(Thi Tco) (Tho Tci)]=17.78*c

Cmin=m.h1*c =88.32 Cmax=mc*c=166.6

Thus Cmin/Cmax=0.53 Qh= Cmin (Thi -Tho)=733.06 Qc=Cmax (Tco-Tci)=899.66 Q= (Qh+Qc)/2 =816.37 w

UA=Q/ DTLM =45.92 NTU=UA/ Cmin=0.52 =Q/Cmin(Thi -Tci)=.361

If cc<ch =(Tco-Tci)/(Thi-Tci)

If ch<cc =(Thi -Tho)/(Thi-Tci)=.324

EXPERIMENTAL EFFECTIVENESS 1ST RUN 0.361

THEORETICAL EFFECTIVENESS 0.324

DIFFERENCE(%) 11.42

2ND RUN

0.335

0.320

4.69

Our sincere thanks to all the teachers, prof Amitava Dutta, Dr Ranjan Ganguly,prof Apurba Kumar Santra, mr. Atish Nandi ,mr Bireswar paul and Prakash Ghosh.