SCHOOL OF CHEMICAL ENGINEERING

ENCH3EC Chemical Engineering Design

PROGRESS REPORT OF COOLER DESIGN

Supervisors : Mr. M.G. Ntunka & Dr David Lokhat

Author Name: Sanveer Krishna Student Number: 210511783

STATEMENT OF AUTHORSHIP

CHEMICAL ENGINEERING PROGRESS REPORT OF AN EFFLUENT COOLER by Sanveer Krishna

I hereby declare that this preliminary design and the associated reports are my own work (except where formally acknowledged in the section headed Acknowledgements).

Student Number: 210511783 Date : 09 September 2013

Signature: .

Process Sketch:

Shell and Tube Exchanger

130C T2

River Water 23C, t1

53C t2

Gas Mixture 240C T1

Fluid Allcoations: River water allocated to tubes and reactor effluent allocated to shell. Fluid Properties:
Physical Property Data from Aspen Reactor Effluent Evaluated at hot mean temp. of 185C RHOMX (kg/cum) 10.8604 Water RHO (kg/cum) 989.649 CPMX (J/kg.K) KMX (W/m.k) 2803.732 0.1043099 Evaluated at cold mean temp. of 35C CP (J/kg.K) 3921.62 K (W/m.k) 0.6234836 MUMX (Pa.s) 1.47E-05

MU (Pa.s) 0.000697432

Energy balance and determination of water flowrate:

2803.732 J/kg.K * (240K 130K)

LMTD and LMTD correction factor, FT:

= 3.667 = 0.138 0.972 (from 1 shell-2 tube pass chart)

Exchanger area estimate: Uo,assumed = 800 W/m^2K

Number of tubes and Shell diameter:

3/4 tubes were used with a length of 4 m

Tube side heat transfer coefficient, hi: 93 inch tubes BWG 14 were used with 2 tube passes

di = 0.0254m 2(0.0021082m) = 0.021184 m

= 51483.76

= 225.3563
8725.128 W/m^2.K

Shell side heat transfer coefficient, ho:

= 0.022 m^2

= 359.622 kg/s.m^2

= 467105.636 JH = 0.002 (from chart) Ideal Cross-flow coefficient(hoc) = 3750.779 W/m^2.K Correction factors: Fn = 0.97 Fb = 0.93 Fw = 0.93 Fl = 0.75 (1 sealing strip for every 5 tube rows used)

= 0.97*0.93*0.93*0.75*3750.779 W/m^2.K = 2360.045 W/m^2.K

Overall heat transfer coefficient, Uo: hid = 3000 W/m^2.K hod = 5000 W/m^2.K kw = 11.7 W/m^2.K (Stainless Steel)

Pressure drop yet to be determined. Since the calculated U value is higher than assumed the design will be further optimised.