Heat Exchangers Design

 

It is desired to heat 4450 Kg/h of cold benzene

from 300 K to 322 K using hot toluene which is
cooled from 344 K to 311 K. The specific
gravities of benzene and toluene are 0.88 and
0.87 respectively. A fouling factor of 1.60 X 10 -4
m2 K/W should be provided for each stream. A
number of 6 m hairpins of 50 by 31.75 mm IPS
pipe are available. How many hairpins are
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Effectiveness – NTU method of HTA

•   Effectiveness   –   NTU method is used when the
temperatures of the fluids leaving the exchanger
are not known.
•   This method is based on the effectiveness of a
heat exchanger in transferring a given amount of 
heat.
•
 For obtaining an expression for the heat transfer
rate without involving any of the outlet
temperatures, let us introduce the term
effectiveness.
 

It is required to cool 250 Kg/h of hot liquid

with
parral
pa inlet
alle
lell fl temperature
flow
ow ar
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angeme
menof 393
nt. 100
000 K using a
0 Kg/h of 
cooling water is available for cooling
purpose at a temperature 283 K. Calculate
the outlet temperatures of the hot liquid
and water and the effectiveness of the
heat exchanger if the overall heat transfer
coefficient is 1160 W/m2 K and the heat
transfer surface of the exchanger is 0.25
m2.
 

A double-pipe heat exchanger is constructed of a copper (k =

380 W/m · °C) inner tube of internal diameter Di = 1.2 cm and
external diameter D o  = 1.6 cm and an outer tube of diameter
3.0 cm. The convection
convection heat trans
transfer
fer coefficient
coefficient is reported to
be hi = 700 W/m2 · °C on the inner surface of the tube and ho =
1400 W/m2 · °C on its outer surface. For a fouling factor R f, i   =
0.0005 m2 · °C/W on the tube side and R f, o   = 0. 0.0002 m2 ·
0002
°C/W
of theon theexchanger
heat shell side,per
determine (a)and
unit length the (b)
thermal resistance
the overall heat
transfer coefficients Ui  and Uo  based on the inner and outer
surface areas of the tube, respectively.