Abstract

The heat exchanger is major element as far as heat transfer and energy conservation is concern.
There are so many types of heat exchangers available but due to wide range of design
possibilities, simple manufacturing, low maintenance cost, cross flow and counter flow heat
exchanger extensively used in petroleum, petrochemical, air conditioning, food storage and other
industries. In present day shell and tube heat exchanger is the most common type heat exchanger
widely use in oil refinery and other large chemical process, because it suits high pressure
application. The process in solving simulation consists of modeling and meshing the basic
geometry of shell and tube heat exchanger using CFD package ANSYS 14.0. The objective of
the project is design of shell and tube heat exchanger with helical baffle and study the flow and
temperature field inside the shell using ANSYS software tools. Three types of heat exchangers
are designed in this study with different designs of tubes contains of 20 mm diameter and 1000
mm length shell diameter 210 mm. To increase the heat exchange capacity of heat exchanger
optimization is done which seeks to identify the best parameter combination of heat exchangers.
The prefix parameter (tube diameter) is used as an input variable and the output parameter is the
maximum temperature difference of shell and tube heat exchanger. Three types models are made
on the basis tubes variations of heat exchanger and CFX analysis is carried out in ANSYS 14.0.
Result obtained from that gives the best dimension of heat exchanger for outlet temperature of
water.