Heat Exchanger Design

ME 414 TEAM #1
JENNIFER HACKER JESSE KENDALL

CHRISTOPHER ROGERS
BRANDON RODRIGUEZ ALEK VANLUCHENE

Problem Statement

Design a heat exchanger that cools a corrosive chemical with water properties from 45 C to 25 C with a mass flow rate of 220,000 kg/hr using city water at 22 C with variable mass flow rate.

Design Requirements

Heat Exchanger Length is less than 7 m

Heat Exchanger Diameter is less than 2 m

Minimize Pressure Losses in both shell and tube Minimize Weight

Variable Reduction
Tube & Shell Material Stainless Steel Tube will carry corrosive material for ease of cleaning Counter flow was selected due to increase efficiency Single pass selected due to lower pressure drop, small

cooling requirement, and cost

Shell thickness was selected to minimize weight and

handle maximum pressure of the heat exchanger.

Variable Reduction Cont ..

Center tube diameter was selected to be the same size as

other tubes to reduce cost

For efficiency and ease of cleaning a square pitch was

chosen

The pitch angle was chosen to be 90 deg since the angle

did not affect the design parameters

The MATLAB program chose the number of tubes based

on the shell diameter

To Baffle or Not?
Advantages Higher Heat Transfer Disadvantages Higher Pressure Loss Increased Weight Since the chemical only required a small amount of

cooling (20 C) the baffles were not needed for the gain in heat transfer.

Main Effect Plots - Q

Main Effect Plots P Tube

Main Effect Plots P Shell

Main Effect Plots Weight

Pareto Chart

Minitab Optimization

End Results
Initial Values 4000 30000 15000 3250000 Optimized Values 4022 29930 14630 32510000 Units kg Pa Pa W/m^2

Weight P Shell P Tube Heat Transfer

Shell Mass Flow Rate Counter Flow or Parallel Number of Tube Passes Baffles Shell Inner Diameter Shell Thickness Shell Material Tube Material Tube Outer Diameter Center Tube Diameter Tube Thickness Tube Length Number of Tubes Tubing Pitch Tube Layout Angle

85 Counter 1 No 0.6858 0.001 Stainless Steel Stainless Steel 0.00635 0.00635 0.000457 5.5 Calculated by MATLAB Square 90

Questions