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DESIGN THE SHELL AND TUBE HEAT EXCHANGER WITH THE HELP OF
PROGRAMMING USING MATLAB SOFTWARE
DAYASHANKER SINGH1, ANKIT SINGH2, MAHENDRA KUMAR YADAV3
1P.G, Student, Department of Mechanical Engineering, KIT Kanpur, AKTU, U.P India
2Assistant Prof., Department of Mechanical Engineering, DR.V.S.G.O.I Unnao, AKTU, U.P India
3P.G, Student, Department of Mechanical Engineering, KIT Kanpur, AKTU, U.P India
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Abstract: - Heat exchangers are those devices that
allow the heat transfer between two fluids at different
temperatures. A lot of research is going on for increasing
the heat transfer through heat exchangers. In the present
paper, research done by various researchers to increase
the effectiveness of heat exchanger has been discussed.
Through detailed study it has been found that corrugated
shell and tube heat exchanger have highest rate of heat
transfer.
Key Words: Corrugated plate heat exchanger, MATLAB
(Matrix Laboratory) software.
INTRODUCTION
In most of the heat exchangers, there is a solid wall that
separates two fluids so that they are not in direct contact
with each other. In heat exchangers, usually external
heat and work interactions are absent. Typical
applications of heat exchangers include refrigeration and
air conditioning systems, power systems, food
processing systems, chemical reactors and space or
aeronautical applications.
In many of the heat exchangers, there is a heat transfer
surface that separates the fluids so that they do not mix
or leak. These type of heat exchangers are known as
direct transfer type or recuperators. On the other hand
the heat exchangers in which there is continuous heat
exchange between the hot and cold fluids are referred to
as indirect transfer type heat exchangers or simply
regenerators. These type of heat exchangers have fluid
leakage from one fluid stream to the other due to
pressure differences. Common examples of heat
exchangers include shell and tube heat exchangers,
condenser, automobile radiators, evaporators,
preheaters and cooling towers. If there is no phase
change in any of the fluids in the heat exchanger, it is
called sensible heat exchanger. In heat exchangers, there
can also be internal thermal energy sources as in case of
electric heaters and nuclear fuel elements. Chemical
reaction and combustion can also take place within the
heat exchanger as in case of boilers, fired heaters, and
fluidized bed exchangers. Some heat exchangers make
use of mechanical devices such as in case of scraped
surface exchanger, agitated vessels, and stirred tank
reactors.
In case of recuperators heat transfer takes place in the
separating wall by the process of conduction. However,
in a heat pipe heat exchanger, heat pipe facilitates the
transfer of heat by condensation, evaporation, and
conduction of the working fluid inside the heat pipe in
addition to acting as a separating wall. In general, the
separating wall may be eliminated if the fluids are
immiscible, and the interface between the fluids replaces
a heat transfer surface, as in a direct-contact heat
exchanger. A heat exchanger consists of heat transfer
elements such as a core or matrix containing the heat
transfer surface and the fluid distribution elements such
as manifolds, headers, tanks, inlet and outer nozzles or
pipes. In general, a heat exchanger does not have any
moving parts; however, there are also some exceptions
such as a rotary regenerative exchanger or a scraped
surface heat exchanger.
The heat transfer surface is that surface of the heat
exchanger core which is in direct contact with the fluids
and through which heat transfer takes place by the
process of conduction. That portion of heat transfer
surface which is in direct contact with both the fluids is
known as the primary or direct surface. In order to
increase the heat transfer area, appendages can be
intimately connected to the primary surface that
provides an extended, secondary or indirect surface
which is referred to as fins. Therefore heat is conducted
through the fin and convected or radiated from the fin to
the surrounding fluid or vice versa depending upon
whether the fin is being cooled or heated. Hence the
addition of fins to the primary surface increases the total
heat transfer from the surface for the same temperature
difference. In addition to the applications in the process,
power, petroleum, transportation, air-conditioning,
refrigeration, cryogenic, heat recovery, alternative fuel,
and manufacturing industries, heat exchangers also
serve as a key component of many industrial products
available in the market today.

LITERATURE REVIEW:
Design is an activity aimed at providing complete
descriptions of an engineering system, part of a system,
or just of a single system component. These descriptions
represent an unambiguous specification of the
system/component structure, size, and performance, as
well as other characteristics important for subsequent
manufacturing and utilization. The design of a new heat
exchanger (HE) is referred to as the sizing problem. In a
broad sense, it means the determination of exchanger
construction type, flow arrangement, tube and shell
material, and physical size of an exchanger to meet the
specified heat transfer and pressure drop. This sizing
problem is also referred to as the design problem. Inputs
to the sizing problem are: flow rates, inlet temperatures
and one outlet temperature at least, and heat transfer
rate.
Kern [1] provided a simple method for calculating shell-
side pressure drop and heat transfer coefficient.
However, this method is restricted to a fixed baffle cut
(25%) and cannot adequately account for baffle-to-shell
and tube-to-baffle leakage. Kern method is not applicable
in laminar flow region where shell-side Reynolds
number is less than 2000. Although the Kern equation is
not particularly accurate, it does allow a very simple and
rapid calculation of shell-side heat transfer coefficient
and pressure drop to be carried out.
The concept of considering the various streams through
the exchanger was originally proposed by Tinker [2]. He
suggested a schematic flow pattern, which divided the
shell-side flow into a number of individual streams.
Tinker's model has been the basis of ‘‘stream analysis
method’’, which utilizes a rigorous reiterative approach
and is particularly suitable for computer calculations
rather than hand calculation.
Tinker's original analysis was quite complex and hard to
understand. After an extensive series of experiments was
carried out, a new method has emerged, commonly
described as the Bell–Delaware method [3]. The
Delaware method uses the principles of Tinker are
model but more suitable for hand calculation. In this
method, correction factors for baffle leakage effects, etc.,
are introduced based on extensive experimental data.
This method is widely used and most recommended. In
manual design of an exchanger, the thermal design
engineer cannot avoid the trial and error routine.
Accordingly there is little interest in hand calculation
method. For manual design, Saunders [4] proposed very
practical method that simple design factors are provided
which enable the method proposed by Bell to be used
rapidly for a fixed set of geometrical parameters. In Bell's
work, the correction factors for heat transfer and
pressure drop correlations are given in graphic form. For
computer applications, Taborek [5] gives the
correlations for all correction factors involving Bell
methods. Wills and Johnston [6] have developed the
stream analysis method that is viable for hand
calculation. Hewitt provides a more readily accessible
version of Wills and Johnston method [7]. Reppich and
Zagermann [8] offer a computer-based design model to
determine the optimum dimensions of segmentally
baffled shell-and-tube heat exchangers by calculating
optimum shell side and tube-side pressure drops from
the equations provided in his work. The six optimized
dimensional parameters are number of tubes, tube
length, shell diameter, number of baffles, baffle cut, and
baffle spacing. The proposed model carries out also cost
analysis. Gaddis [9] presented a new procedure for
calculating shell-side pressure drop, which is based
principally on Delaware method. However, instead of
using diagrams––as in the Delaware method––to
calculate the pressure drop in tube bank, the present
authors use equations previously presented in [10,11]. Li
and Kottke have carried out series of experimental work
on shell-and-tube heat exchangers to analysis shell-side
heat transfer coefficient (HTC) and pressure loss. They
employed a particular mass transfer measuring
technique based on absorption, chemical and color
giving reaction in their researches to obtain local shell-
side HTC by applying the extended Lewis analogy
between heat and mass transfer to mass transfer
coefficient. They studied local shell-side HTC in shell-and
tube heat exchangers with disc-and-doughnut baffles
and segmental baffles [12–14]. They also investigated
effect of leakage and baffle spacing on pressure drop and
HTC in [15] and [16] respectively.
Although design may be carried out by hand calculation,
computer programs are widely employed anymore.
These are often proprietary codes produced by design
industry, large processing companies, and international
research organizations such as Heat Transfer and Fluid
Flow Service (HTFS) or Heat Transfer Research Inc.
(HTRI) or Tubular Exchanger Manufacturers Association
(TEMA). Unfortunately, it is hard to employ them as a
heat exchanger subroutine of a computer simulation for
any thermal system plant that one of its equipment is
heat exchanger. Researchers usually tend to make a
mathematical model and a computer simulation of
thermal systems for their theoretical analysis and when
a heat exchanger exists in the system, a subroutine will
be needed to solve thermo-hydraulic performance of
heat exchanger.
Some of the work of the researchers in the field of design
of heat exchangers using MATLAB or some other
software is as follows:
Yusuf Ali Kara and Ozbilen Guraras developed a
program using FOTRAN90 software for design of shell
and tube heat exchanger. In that work a computer based
design model for the preliminary design of shell and tube
heat exchanger was developed with single phase fluid

flow on both shell side and tube side. The program
developed was employed for segmentally baffled U-tube
and fixed tube sheet heat exchangers for one pass and
two-pass for tube side flow. The overall dimensions of
the shell, the tube bundle, and optimum heat transfer
surface area that are required to meet the specified heat
transfer duty by calculating minimum or allowable shell-
side pressure drop are determined by the program.
The program actually selects the optimum exchanger
among the three different flow arrangement, namely
one-pass, two-pass, and U-tube exchangers. The program
is run for both cold and hot fluid as shell-side stream to
show which one gives the best result. For instance,
considering minimum shell-side pressure drop as
constraining criteria for optimum design , circulating
cold fluid in shell-side has some advantages on hot fluid
as shell stream since the former causes lower shell-side
pressure drop and requires smaller heat transfer area
than the latter's.
The program selects an optimum exchanger among total
number of 240 exchangers. The program is restricted to
single-segmental baffle having 25% baffle cut that is
most frequently used, triangular-pitch layout that results
in greatest tube density. The exchanger type covers only
fixed tube sheet with one-pass and two-pass, and U-tube
for E-type shell. This program can be extended to
different exchanger configurations, such as square pitch,
4or 6 tube-pass, etc. by inserting data from tube counts.
Working fluids other than water can also be introduced
easily.
Mohammed Rabeeh V and Vysakh S designed shell and
tube heat exchanger using MATLAB codes. In their work
a standard procedure is followed in design of shell and
tube heat exchangers and the parameters required for
building a heat exchanger are calculated by numerical
method until the dimensions satisfy the condition for
maximum overall heat transfer coefficient. A code
written in MATLAB is used where the calculations are
iterated by varying the TEMA specified values for tube
length and tube outer diameter. The effective parameters
for the design of shell and tube heat exchanger for given
boundary conditions are the output of the above
calculation. Energy balance over the heat exchanger for
the designed HX was completed using partial differential
equations, which was solved using second order Runge-
Kutta method. Since Runge- Kutta method is very robust
and efficient, so thermal diffusion term is not included in
the energy balance equation. By plotting a temperature
v/s tube length graph in MATLAB using the energy
balance differential equation and analysing the same,
time required for the shell and tube heat exchanger to
reach a steady state condition is obtained. The present
work proposes a standard steps to design and analyse
the working and performance of a shell and tube heat
exchanger.
Andre L.H. Costa and Eduardo M. Queiroz worked
together for design optimization of shell and tube heat
exchangers. The formulated problem consists of the
minimization of the thermal surface area for a certain
service, involving discrete decision variables. Additional
constraints represent geometrical features and velocity
conditions which must be complied in order to reach a
more realistic solution for the process task. The
optimization algorithm is based on a search along the
tube count table where the established constraints and
the investigated design candidates are employed to
eliminate non optimal alternatives, thus reducing the
number of rating runs executed. The performance of the
algorithm and its individual components are explored
through two design examples. The obtained results
illustrate the capacity of the proposed approach to direct
the optimization towards more effective designs,
considering important limitations usually ignored in the
literature R. Hosseini, A. Hosseini-Ghaffar and, M. Soltani
In this paper, the heat transfer coefficient and pressure
drop on the shell side of a shell-and-tube heat exchanger
have been experimentally obtained for three different
types of copper tubes (smooth, corrugated and with
micro-fins). Also, experimental data has been compared
with theoretical data available. Correlations have been
suggested for both pressure drop and Nusselt number
for the three tube types. A shell-and-tube heat exchanger
of an oil cooler used in a power transformer has been
modeled and built for this experimental work in order to
investigate the effect of surface configuration on the shell
side heat transfer as well as the pressure drop of the
three types
of tube bundles. The bundles with the same geometry,
configuration, number of baffles and length, but with
different external tube surfaces inside the same shell
were used for the experiment. Corrugated and micro-fin
tubes have shown degradation of performance at a
Reynolds number below a certain value (Re < 400). At a
higher Reynolds number the performance of the heat
exchanger greatly improved for micro-finned tubes.
Amin Hadidi*, Ali Nazari Cost minimization of Shell-and-
tube heat exchangers is a key objective. Traditional
design approach esbesides being time consuming, do not
guarantee the reach of an economically optimal solution.
So, in this research, a new shell and tube heat exchanger
optimization design approach is developed based on
biogeography-based optimization (BBO) algorithm. The
BBO algorithm has some good features in reaching to the
global minimum in comparison to other evolutionary
algorithms. In this study BBO technique has been applied
to minimize the total cost of the equipment including
capital investment and the sum of discounted annual
energy expenditures related to pumping of shell and
tube heat exchanger by varying various design variables
such as tube length, tube outer diameter, pitch size,
baffle spacing, etc. Based on proposed method, a full

computer code was developed for optimal design of shell
and tubeheat exchangers and three different test cases
are solved by it to demonstrate the effectiveness and
accuracy of the proposed algorithm. Finally the results
are compared to those obtained by literature approaches
up to the present. The obtained results indicate that the
BBO algorithm can be successfully applied for optimal
design of shell and tube heat exchangers.
SteinarHauan and Ignacio E. Grossmann developed
mathematical programming model for heat exchanger
network synthesis including detailed heat exchanger
design. This paper addresses the optimal design of shell-
and-tube heat exchangers via a mathematical
programming approach. It is shown that it is possible to
develop a design model for shell-and tube heat
exchangers that takes into account some important
construction variables: number of tubes, number of
passes, internal and external tube diameters, tube
arrangement pattern, number of baffles, head type, and
fluid allocation (i.e., the allocation of the fluid streams to
the shell or tubes). The model is based on generalized
disjunctive programming and is optimized with a mixed-
integer nonlinear programming reformulation to
determine the heat-exchanger design that minimizes the
total annual cost accounting for area and pumping
expenses. Examples are presented to illustrate the model
performance.
In this paper, an optimization model has been proposed
for the design of a shell-and-tube heat exchanger. The
main contribution of this work is an optimization model
that includes correlations from the Bell-Delaware
method in order to calculate the heat-transfer coefficient
and the pressure drop in the shell-side flow. Therefore,
design options are included in the model with the aim of
determining the best design configuration.
The model is based on generalized disjunctive
programming and is optimized with a MINLP
formulation to determine the heat-exchanger design that
minimizes the total annual cost accounting for area and
pumping expenses. The application and usefulness of the
proposed method have been shown in three example
problems. The results indicate that the methodology can
properly account for the trade offs between area and
pumping costs. Finally, different design options such as
flexible target temperatures or mass flow rates can be
easily included in the model by using heat balances and
logarithm mean temperature equations as constraints.
V.K. Patel, R.V. Rao Shell-and-tube heat exchangers
(STHEs) are the most common type of heat exchangers
that find widespread use in numerous industrial
applications. Cost minimization of these heat exchangers
is a key objective for both designer and users. Heat
exchanger design involves complex processes, including
selection of geometrical parameters and operating
parameters. The traditional design approach for shell
and-tube heat exchangers involves rating a large number
of different exchanger geometries to identify those that
satisfy a given heat duty and a set of geometric and
operational constraints. However, this approach is time-
consuming and does not assure an optimal solution.
Hence the present study explores the use of a non-
traditional optimization technique; called particle swarm
optimization (PSO), for design optimization of shell-and-
tube heat exchangers from economic view point.
Minimization of total annual cost is considered as an
objective function. Three design variables such as shell
internal diameter, outer tube diameter and baffle
spacing are considered for optimization. Two tube
layouts viz. triangle and square are also considered for
optimization. Four different case studies are presented
to demonstrate the effectiveness and accuracy of the
proposed algorithm. The results of optimization using
PSO technique are compared with those obtained by
using genetic algorithm (GA).Heat exchangers are an
integral component of all thermal systems. Their designs
should be adapted well to the applications in which they
are used; otherwise their performances will be deceiving
and their costs excessive. Heat exchanger design can be a
complex task, and advanced optimization tools are useful
to identify the best and cheapest heat exchanger for a
specific duty. The present study has demonstrated
successful application of PSO technique for the optimal
design of a shell-and-tube heat exchanger from economic
view point. The presented PSO technique is simple in
concept, few in parameters and easy for implementation.
These features boost the applicability of the PSO
particularly in thermal system design, where the
problems are usually complex and have a large number
of variables and discontinuity in the objective function.
The presented PSO technique's ability is demonstrated
using different literature case studies and the
performance results are compared with those obtained
by the previous researchers. PSO converges to optimum
value of the objective function within quite few
generations and this feature signifies the importance of
PSO for heat exchanger optimization. The PSO technique
can be easily modified to suit optimization of various
thermal systems.
B.V. Babu and S.A. Munawar Differential evolution (DE)
and its various strategies are applied for the optimal
design of shell-and-tube heat exchangers in this study.
The main objective in any heat exchanger design is the
estimation of the minimum heat transfer area required
for a given heat duty, as it governs the overall cost of the
heat exchanger. Lakhs of configurations are possible
with various design variables such as outer diameter,
pitch, and length of the tubes, tube passes, baffle spacing,
baffle cut, etc. Hence the design engineer needs an
efficient strategy in searching for the global minimum. In
the present study for the first time DE, an improved
version of genetic algorithms (GAs), has been
successfully applied with different strategies for

1,61,280 design configurations using Bell’s method to
find the heat transfer area. In the application of DE,
9680combinations of the key parameters are considered.
For comparison, GAs are also applied for the same case
study with 1080 combinations of its parameters. For this
optimal design problem, it is found that DE, an
exceptionally simple evolution strategy, is significantly
faster compared to GA and yields the global optimum for
a wide range of the key parameters. This paper
demonstrates the first successful application of DE for
the optimal design of shell-and-tube HEs. A generalized
procedure has been developed to run the DE algorithm
coupled with a function that uses Bell’s method of HED,
to find the global minimum HE area. For the case study
taken up, application of all the 10 different working
strategies of DE are explored. The performance of DE
and GA is compared. From this study we conclude that
the population-based algorithms such as GAs and DE
provide significant improvement in the optimal designs,
by achieving the global optimum, compared to the
traditional designs. For the given optimal shell-and-tube
HED problem the best population size, using both DE and
GA, is about seven times the number of design variables.
From ‘more likeliness’ as well as ‘speed’ point of view,
DE/best/1/. . . strategy is found to be the best out of the
presently available 10 strategies of DE.DE, a simple
evolution strategy, is significantly faster compared to GA
and it achieves the global minimum over a wide range of
its key parameters—indicating the ‘likeliness’ of
achieving the true global optimum.DE proves to be a
potential source for accurate and faster optimization.
B. Khalifeh Soltan, M. Saffar-Avval *, E. Damangir
There is no precise criterion to determine baffle spacing
in the presented procedure for condenser design in the
Heat Exchanger Design Handbook (HEDH). To consider
suitable baffle spacing in the design process, a computer
program has been developed which enables designers to
determine the optimum baffle spacing for segmentally
baffled shell and tube condensers. Total costs of heat
transfer area and pumping power are involved to
perform objective function, using a weight factor, which
depends on the economical conditions of the desired
location. As a result, a set of correlation is presented to
determine the optimum baffle spacing, which could be
considered as a complementary to HEDH
recommendations. Throughout the research, a wide
range of design input data specifications for E and J types
shell and tube condensers have been considered and
their corresponding optimum designs for different
values of W1 have been evaluated. This evaluation has
led to some correlation for determining the optimum
baffle spacing. The steps of guideline are included, and
its usefulness and accuracy has been validated.
R. Hosseini, A. Hosseini-Ghaffar, M. Soltani: In this paper,
the heat transfer coefficient and pressure drop on the
shell side of a shell-and-tube heat exchanger have been
experimentally obtained for three different types of
copper tubes (smooth, corrugated and with micro-fins).
Also, experimental data has been compared with
theoretical data available. Correlations have been
suggested for both pressure drop and Nusselt number
for the three tube types. A shell-and-tube heat exchanger
of an oil cooler used in a power transformer has been
modeled and built for this experimental work in order to
investigate the effect of surface configuration on the shell
side heat transfer as well as the pressure drop of the
three types of tube bundles. The bundles with the same
geometry, configuration, number of baffles and length,
but with different external tube surfaces inside the same
shell were used for the experiment. Corrugated and
micro-fin tubes have shown degradation of performance
at a Reynolds number below a certain value (Re < 400).
At a higher Reynolds number the performance of the
heat exchanger greatly improved for micro-finned tubes.
Nusselt and Euler numbers for three different types of
tubes in the shell side of a shell-and-tube heat exchanger
have been experimentally obtained and presented.
Micro-finned tubes show higher Nusselt numbers and
higher pressure drops as well. The higher Nu number for
micro-finned tube is attributed to the larger surface are a
Corrugated tubes at the range of experimental work
show lower Nu, but similar pressure drops in
comparison to smooth tubes. A simple correlation was
presented for the determination of pressure drops and
Nusselt number for the shell side of the heat exchanger
with different tube types. Micro-finned tubes and
corrugated tubes show a lower Nusselt number at lower
Re Æ Pr. Considering the larger area of micro-finned
tubes, favor their use at Re Æ Pr> 200000.Experimental
results are closer to the theoretical values at higher Re Æ
Pr. Euler number for micro-finned tubes decreases
rapidly with Re Æ Pr increase. Therefore, micro-fin tubes
should be used when Re Æ Pr exceeds
200000.Experimental work shows higher Nusselt
number and pressure drops with respect to theoretical
correlation based on Bell’s method. The optimum
condition for flow rate (for the lowest increase of
pressure drop) in replacing the existing smooth tube
with similar micro-finned tube bundle was obtained for
the oil cooler of the transformer under investigation.
Jie Yang a, Sun-Ryung Oh, Wei Liu A general optimization
design method motivated by constructal theory is
proposed for heat exchanger design in the present paper.
The simplified version of this design approach is
suggested and the optimization problem formulations
are given. In this method, a global heat exchanger is
divided into several sub heat exchangers in series-and-
parallel arrangement. The shell-and-tube heat exchanger
is utilized for the method application, and the Tubular
Exchanger Manufacturers Association (TEMA) standards
are rigorously followed for all design parameters, e.g.
tube diameter, arrangement, thickness and number. The
fitness function is the total cost of the shell-and-tube

heat exchangers, including the investment cost for initial
manufacture and the operational cost involving the
power consumption to overcome the frictional pressure
loss. A genetic algorithm is applied to minimize the
objective function by adjusting parameters. Three case
studies are considered to demonstrate that the new
design approach can significantly reduce the total cost
compared to the methods of original design, traditional
genetic algorithm design, and old constructal design. In
this paper, an optimization design method based on
constructal theory is proposed for heat exchanger
application. The novel design adopts the perception that
divides a whole heat exchanger into several sub heat
exchangers, arranges sub-HEs in a certain pattern, and
then optimizes sub-HEs simultaneously. A genetic
algorithm is used to optimize the parameters of each
sub-HE. The total cost minimization of all sub shell-and-
tube exchangers is set as the objective function. A heat
exchanger design approach motivated by constructal
theory is proposed and simplified. The problem
formulations for both non-simplified and simplified
methods are given. The successful applications of shell-
and-tube heat exchangers demonstrate potential
applicability in other engineering fields. Three cases
studies with the TEMA standards imposing a discrete
parameter space were considered to compare the results
obtained by the original, the conventional GA, the old
constructal, and the new constructal values. The results
demonstrated that the novel design approach has a great
advantage in solving the MDNLP problem and reduces
total cost compared to the other methods.
M. REPPICH and J. KOHOUTEK A new method allowing
the optimal design of baffled shell-and-tube heat
exchangers was discussed in this paper. Tile known
commercial design tools do not consist optimization
strategies. There are presented as simplified expressions
describing interaction between heat transfer and
pressure drop that can he used for optimal design of heat
exchangers from economic view point. The developed
program system HEATDESIGN is realizing a general
computer-supported design on the basis of estimation of
optimal pressure drops determined by consideration of
economic conditions and process data. Examples show
the influence of changed economic parameters or
process data on the design and costs by means of
optimization. In addition the program gives the
possibility to optimize components of apparatus. The
developed method enables to find the optimal pressure
drop and flow velocities from the view point of economic
conditions. It is applicable for liquid and gaseous
streams. The influence of changed economic parameters,
process data or fluid properties on the design and costs
can be estimated rapidly. The program system
HEATDESIGN is a design tool that realizes the derived
new concept allowing a computer-supported optimal
design of baffled shell-and-tube heat exchangers.
HEATDESIGN gives in addition the possibility to
optimize the flange joints of the apparatus.
PROBLEM FORMULATION AND METHODOLOGY
After going through the various works done by different
authors in the field of design of heat exchangers which is
presented in the literature review, the problem is
formulated. The objectives of the work are presented
below:
1. To design the shell and tube heat exchanger with the
help of programming using MATLAB (Matrix
Laboratory) software.
2. To calculate the overall dimensions of the shell, the
tube bundle, and optimum heat transfer surface area
required to meet the specified heat transfer duty by
calculating minimum or allowable shell-side pressure
drop.
3. To compare a number of heat exchangers given in the
tube count for three different type of flow arrangements.
4. To find out the optimum heat exchanger based on
above calculation that is associated with the minimum
pressure drop so that the running cost would be
minimised.
CONCLUSION
A lot of research work has been done in the field of heat
exchangers. Conventional methods are found to be very
expensive and time consuming. MATLAB has emerged as
boon for researchers. With the help of MATLAB, one can
determine effectiveness, heat transfer rate detailed
parameters easily. Among all types of heat exchangers
corrugated heat exchangers are found to have highest
rate of heat transfer.
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BIOGRAPHIES
DAYASHANKER SINGH
P.G Student,
Department of Mechanical
Engineering,
KIT Kanpur AKTU, U.P India.
ANKIT SINGH
Assistant Prof.,
Engineering,
DR. V.S.G.O.I Unnao,
AKTU, U.P India
MAHENDRA KUMAR YADAV
P.G Student,
Engineering,
KIT Kanpur AKTU, U.P India.

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