tube-sheet layouts and tube counts.

A typical example of the layout of tubes for

an exchanger with a split-ring floating head is shown in Fig. 7.14. the actual
layout is for a 13x1/4 in. ID shell with 1 in. OD tubes on 1x1/4 in. Triangular pitch
arranged for six tube passes. The partition arrangement is also shown for the
channel and floating-head cover along with the orientation of the passes. Tubes
are not usually laid out symmetrically in the tube sheet. Extra entry space is
usually allowed in the shell by omitting tubes directly under the inlet nozzle so as
to minimize the contraction effect of the fluid entering the shell. When tubes are
laid out with minimum space allowances between partitions and adjoining tubes
and within a diameter free of obstruction called the outer tube limit, the number
of tubes in the layout is the tube count. It is not always possible to have an equal
number of tubes in each pass, although in large exchanger the unbalance should
not be more than about 5 per cent. In Appendix Table 9 the tube counts for
and 1 in. OD tubes are given for one pass shells and one, two, six, and eight tube
pass arrangements. These tube counts include a free entrance path below the
inlet nozzle equal to the cross-sectional area of the nozzles shown in Table 7.1.
when a large inlet nozzle is used, extra entry space can be obtained by flaring
the inlet nozzle at its base or removing the tubes which ordinarily lie close to the
inlet nozzle.