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Heat Exchanger Design: ME 310 Thermo-Fluid System Design

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Department of Mechanical Engineering

Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology

ME 310
Thermo-Fluid System Design

HEAT EXCHANGER DESIGN


(DOUBLE PIPE HEAT EXCHANGER)
Double pipe heat exchanger

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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

 Very long, even for moderate capacities

 Unviable to accommodate in an industrial space

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Double pipe heat exchanger

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Double pipe heat exchanger

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Performance Analysis of a Double Pipe Heat Exchanger

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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°C 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

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Workout Problem-1

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Workout Problem-1

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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

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Workout Problem-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 × 10–4 (s · m2 · K)/J. Assume, solvent flows
through the internal tube.

The properties of the solvent at 35°C are:

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Workout Problem-2

Properties of ethylene glycol :

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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.

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

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Calculation for the Annulus Tube

For heat transfer:

For pressure drop:

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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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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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Experimental Investigation of a Double Pipe Heat Exchanger
(the experimental setup is in the Boiler Lab)

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Thank You!

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