kg J - 7 N s W

ρa := 0.995 cpa := 1009 μa := 208.2 10 ka := 0.03 Pra := 0.7

3 kg K 2 m K
m m

kg J - 6 N s W
ρw := 975 cpw := 4195 μw := 365  10 kw := 0.668 Prw := 2.29
3 kg K 2 m K
m m

2 W
L2 := 100cm L3 := 40cm Afra := L2 L3 = 0.4 m kf := 100
m K
kg km m
Thi := 90 °C Tho := 60 °C mh := 1 Tci := 35 °C ua := 53 = 14.722
s hr s
5
q := mh  cpw ( Thi - Tho) = 1.258  10 W

q
Tco := Tci + = 56.287 °C
ρa ua Afra cpa

2
m
Air side core data: Dh := 0.2997cm δ := 0.0102cm Af_to_At := 0.795 β := 751.3 σ := 0.697
3
m
ua kg Ga Dh 3
Ga := ρa = 21.017 Re_a := = 3.025  10 kg
σ 2 μa mc := ρa ua Afra = 5.859
m s s
From the figure:
jh := 0.004 f := 0.013
-2
3 W 2ha 1
ha := jh  Ga cpa Pra = 107.593  mf := = 145.247 pitch := 0.436in
2 kf  δ m
m K
 0.436 - 0.12 -3 tanh ( mf  Lf )
Lf := in = 4.013  10 m mf  Lf = 0.583 ηf := = 0.9
2 mf  Lf

ηo := 1 - Af_to_At ( 1 - ηf ) = 0.921  2
π b b := 0.12in a := 0.87in
4 ( a - b )  b + 
Tube side data: Nt := 60 Dhw :=
 4  -3
= 5.484  10 m Taking exact
2 ( a - b ) + π b geometry of tubes
mh m
uw := = 0.262 ρw uw Dhw 3
 Re_w := = 3.831  10
π b 
2 s
μw
ρw Nt ( a - b )  b +  turbulent flow but Re < 4000
 4 
3
-8 2
Let us use Bhatti-Shah for f and Gnielinski for Nu fw := 0.0054 + 2.3 10  Re_w = 0.011

fw
 ( Re_w - 1000)  Prw
2 Nuw kw 3 W
Nuw := = 20.82 hw := = 2.536  10 
 2  Dhw 2
m K
 3  fw 
0.5
1 + 12.7     Prw - 1
2 
-1
Uo :=  1 1 1  W
 1 - Af_to_At  hw + ηo  ha  = 83.208
  m K
2

Both sides of the HEX is unmixed

3 W 3 W
Ch := mh cpw = 4.195  10  Cc := mc cpa = 5.912  10  Cmax := Cc Cmin := Ch
K K

q
ε := = 0.545
Cmin ( Thi - Tci)

Cmin
Cr := = 0.71 Since C* > 0.3 and ε > 0.52 cc := 0.44 dd := 0.92 nn := 1.25 qq := 0.15
Cmax
1
nn
 1 + cc  ( 1 - Cr)
2 nn  NTU Cmin
  
1 2
NTU :=  - dd = 1.076 thus Ao := = 54.263 m
π Cr
qq  1 - ε + cc ( 1 - Cr)   Uo

Ao 3 Vol
Vol := = 0.072 m L1 := = 0.181 m
β Afra

We need to calculate how many tubes can fit into L1. For that tube row will start with half of the gap
-3
gap := ( 1.06 - 0.87)in = 4.826  10 m gap
L1 -
2
Nlongitudinal := = 6.617 Nlongitudinal := 6
1.06in

Also integer number of tubes should fit in L3 in transverse direction. 0.436 in is the transverse pitch.

( 0.436 - 0.12)in
L3 -
2
Ntransverse := = 35.757 Ntransverse := 35
0.436in

Nt := Ntransverse Nlongitudinal = 210 This is the end of 1st iteration

 Iteration 2
mh m
uw := = 0.075 ρw uw Dhw 3
 Re_w := = 1.095  10
π b 
2 s
μw
ρw Nt ( a - b )  b +  Laminar flow
 4 

Lets take the channel rectangular, because we don't have a correlation for the exact geometry
b
α := = 0.138 Take uniform temperature case NuT
a
( 2 3
NuT := 7.541 1 - 2.610 α + 4.970 α - 5.119 α + 2.702 α - 0.548 α
4 5
) = 5.445
Nuw kw W
Nuw := NuT = 5.445 hw := = 663.289 
Dhw 2
m K

-1
Uo :=  1 1 1  W
 1 - Af_to_At  hw + ηo  ha  = 57.31
  2
m K

Both sides of the HEX is unmixed

3 W 3 W
Ch := mh cpw = 4.195  10  Cc := mc cpa = 5.912  10  Cmax := Cc Cmin := Ch
K K

q
ε := = 0.545
Cmin ( Thi - Tci)

Cmin
Cr := = 0.71 Since C* > 0.3 and ε > 0.52 cc := 0.44 dd := 0.92 nn := 1.25 qq := 0.15
Cmax
1
nn
 1 + cc ( 1 - Cr)  2 nn
1  NTU Cmin 2
NTU :=    - dd = 1.076 thus Ao := = 78.785 m
π Cr 
qq 1 - ε + cc  ( 1 - Cr)   Uo

Ao 3 Vol
Vol := = 0.105 m L1 := = 0.262 m
β Afra

We need to calculate how many tubes can fit into L1. For that tube row will start with half of the gap
-3
gap := ( 1.06 - 0.87)in = 4.826  10 m gap
L1 -
2
Nlongitudinal := = 9.647 Nlongitudinal := 10
1.06in
Transverse number of tubes is the same

Nt := Ntransverse Nlongitudinal = 350 This is the end of 1st iteration

Iteration 3
mh m
uw := = 0.045 ρw uw Dhw
 Re_w := = 656.755
π b 
2 s
μw
ρw Nt ( a - b )  b + 
 4  Laminar flow thus the same NuT
Since Nuw is the same, the rest of the iteration will be the same, no need to go further with iterations
gap
We ended up having 35 x 10 tubes with resulting L1: L1 := 10 1.06in + = 0.272 m
2
BETTER DESIGN: We can make tube side flow turbulent by connecting some number of tubes in series