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Heat Exchanger Design: ME 310 Thermo-Fluid System Design

This document discusses the design of double pipe heat exchangers. It provides an example problem calculating the necessary tube length of a double pipe heat exchanger using both countercurrent and co-current arrangements. It also outlines the standard design procedure for double pipe heat exchangers, including selecting tube diameter, calculating film coefficients, determining the overall heat transfer coefficient, calculating the log mean temperature difference, and determining the required heat transfer area, tube length, and number of tubes.

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Heat Exchanger Design: ME 310 Thermo-Fluid System Design

This document discusses the design of double pipe heat exchangers. It provides an example problem calculating the necessary tube length of a double pipe heat exchanger using both countercurrent and co-current arrangements. It also outlines the standard design procedure for double pipe heat exchangers, including selecting tube diameter, calculating film coefficients, determining the overall heat transfer coefficient, calculating the log mean temperature difference, and determining the required heat transfer area, tube length, and number of tubes.

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Department of Mechanical Engineering

Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology

ME 310
Thermo-Fluid System Design
1.5 Credit Hours

HEAT EXCHANGER DESIGN


(PART-2)
Double pipe heat exchanger
Double pipe heat exchanger
A double pipe heat exchanger is one of the simplest form of Heat Exchangers.

The wall of the inner pipe is the heat transfer surface.

The major use of these HX is sensible cooling or heating applications.

But Very long, even for moderate capacities.

Unviable to accommodate in an industrial space.

To make a Unit Isotropically Compact, the arrangement is made in Multiple


Times and Continuous Serial and Parallel flow.
Double pipe heat exchanger
Double pipe heat exchanger
Performance Analysis of a Double Pipe Heat Exchanger
Workout Problem-1
It is desired to cool down 0.34 kg/s of an aqueous solution with a heat
capacity similar to water from 60 to 50°C.
The cooling fluid will be 0.3 kg/s of water at 25°C. A double-pipe heat
exchanger will be used. The external diameter of the interior tube is
0.025 m. The overall heat transfer coefficient is estimated as 1,600
W/(m2 · K).

Calculate the necessary tube length if:


a. A countercurrent arrangement is used.
b. A co-current arrangement is used.
Workout Problem-1
Workout Problem-1
DESIGN PROCEDURE FOR A DOUBLE-TUBE
HEAT EXCHANGER
1. Selection of Tube Diameter
2. Calculation of the Film Coefficients
3. Calculation of the Overall Heat Transfer Coefficient, U
4. Calculation of the LMTD
5. Calculation of the Heat Transfer Area
6. Calculation of the Total Tube Length and Number of Tubes
7. Calculation of the Pressure Drop
8. Changes to the Original Design
Workout-2
0.8 kg/s of a solvent whose properties are indicated below must be cooled down from
40 to 30°C. A stream of ethylene glycol at 5°C will be used as coolant. The outlet
temperature of ethylene glycol is limited to 25°C.
Design a suitable double pipe heat exchanger for this service.
The pressure drop for both streams must not be higher than 110,000 N/m2. The
combined fouling resistance must be 5 × l0–4 (s · m2 · K)/J.
The properties of the solvent at 35°C are:
Workout-2

Properties of ethylene glycol :


The schedule number on
pipe products relates to the
thickness of the wall on the
pipe: as the number
increases, the thicker the
wall thickness becomes.
Standard Tube Size
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For laminar flow (Re < 2,100), according to Sieder and Tate,

In a multipass heat exchanger, L is still the length of one tube, and not
the length of the total path

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For the turbulent region (Re > 10,000), the correlation is

Transition zone (2,100 < Re < 10,000). This is a highly unstable


region, and it is not possible to find a suitable correlation
representing the experimental results. There are some correlations
but the best recommendation is to avoid this region during design:

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Calculation for the Annulus Tube
Frictional Pressure Drop
The frictional pressure drop for fluids circulating in the tube side of a
heat exchanger can be considered as the sum of two effects:
1. The pressure drop along the tubes
2. The pressure drop owing to the change in direction in the exchanger
heads

The pressure drop along the tubes can be calculated with the Fanning
equation:

where the exponent a is -0.14 for turbulent flow and -0.25 in laminar flow.
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The friction factor in laminar flow:

For heat exchanger tubes, the friction factor in the turbulent region can
be determined with the following equation owing to Drew, Koo, and
McAdams:

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The pressure drop corresponding to the change in direction at the
exchanger heads in multipass heat exchangers can be calculated as

where n is the number of tube passes. The total pressure drop thus will be

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Shell Side HX
Design
Two Methods are common in STHX design for the shell side design:

1. Kern Method (Easy and recommended to use as the primary design


tool)
2. Bell Method
Kern Method
Kern Method
ASSIGNMENT
Experimental Investigation of a Double Pipe Heat Exchanger
(the experimental setup is in the Boiler Lab)
Thank You!

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