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A PRACTICAL APPROACH TO DESIGN AND OPTIMIZATION OF SINGLE PHASE LIQUID TO LIQUID SHELL AND TUBE HEAT EXCHANGER
Ajeet Kumar Rai * and Mustafa S Mahdi** *Deptt of Mech. Engg. SSET, SHIATS-DU Allahabad (U.P.) INDIA-211007 **Deptt of Mech. Engg. University of Diyala, Republic of Iraq-32001 E mail-raiajeet@rediffmail.com, Mustafa.sabah@yahoo.com ABSTRACT In this paper a method for thermal-hydraulic design of single phase liquid to liquid shell and tube heat exchanger is established based on Tinker method. Modification suggested by Kern and Kakac are also incorporated. A computer program has been developed to ease the design procedure. The program determines the overall dimensions of the shell, the tube bundle, and optimum heat transfer surface area required to meet the specified heat load by utilizing the allowable shell-side pressure drop and other optimum parameters like fixed tube side velocity and fixed baffle cut. The capability of the proposed model was verified through a case study of a shell and tube heat exchanger used in a locomotive for cooling of the lubricating oil of the engine. The design shows a comparable result with the case study with deviation of 10%. Keywords: Heat exchanger; Shell and tube; Sizing; Single-phase flow INTRODUCTION Shell and tube heat exchanger have a wide application, it is worth noting that more than ninety percent of heat exchangers used in industry are of the shell and tube heat exchanger type as these heat exchangers are capable of handling a quite high load in a moderate size, they offer a great flexibility to meet almost any service requirement, they can be designed for handling high pressures and they can be easily cleaned. Consequently many researches and investigation are done towards establishing better and efficient design procedures with optimization with its characteristics and cost. Kern [1] provided a simple method for calculating shell side pressure drop and heat transfer coefficient. However, this method cannot adequately account the baffle to shell and tube to baffle leakage. The concept of considering the various streams through the exchangers was originally proposed by Tinker
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[2]. He suggested a schematic flow pattern, which divided the shell side flow in a number of individual streams. Tinkers original analysis was quite complex and hard to understand but it presents a much better approximation than the analysis given by Kern, a simplified form of Tinkers analysis is present by Frass [3], which is suitable for computer program, which has been depended on this work for thermal and hydraulic design. In the context of development of new design technique, this work presents a design and optimization procedure integrate with an practical design guidelines with the help of simple user friendly computer program. METHOD Design strategy: Shell and tube heat exchanger design is an inherently iterative process; the main steps can be summarized as follows: (1) Obtain an initial configuration for the heat exchanger. (2) Obtain a thermal and hydraulic design which is suitable for given data. (3) Iterate until acceptable design is obtained. (4) Optimize the design by testing all the design parameters to get an optimum and economic design; this can be done by using the computer program that has been developed in this work. Thermal and hydraulic design: In thermal design, the heat exchanger is sized, which means that all the principal construction parameters such as shell diameter, number of tubes, tube length, tube, baffle spacing and cut, are determined as the following procedure: 1- Calculate the total number of tubes = 1.11

Use 2.25 m/s as a fluid velocity in tube side which is the most efficient velocity to utilize the allowable pressure drop to heat transfer coefficient for determination of Reynolds number that required for determination of friction factor[4]. 2- Calculate the tube matrix diameter and shell inside diameter [5]. = 0.637 0.87 [ 0.9 ( ) ]
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= 1.075 3- Calculate nozzles diameter [1]. = 0.2 4- Calculation of correction factors to allow the deviation from ideality for shell side, each baffle cut has a particular correction factors [3], however in present work the baffle cut is fixed to 25% as its the most efficient cut so the correction factors is: M = 0.88, = 0.54, Y = 4.7, = 0.3 = (0.8 + ) 5- Calculate the coefficients and which use in calculation of adopted from the experimental work of Tinker [2]. = .
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6- Calculate the logarithmic mean temperature difference. = = ( ) + 1 ln (1 ) (1 ) = 2 ( +1 + 1) ( 1) 2 ( +1+ + 1) 7- Calculate shell side mass flow rate through the tube bundle 1.86 = ) (1 + ( ( ) (1 )) =

is the ratio of overall heat transfer coefficient to shell side heat transfer for first design it

can be approximate to unity from the fact that the most shell and tube heat exchangers are employing organic liquid in the shell side and cooling water is insensitive to the tube side h this makes possible a simplifying approximation [3]. 8- Calculate Reynolds number for shell side that modified to the calculation of friction factor and heat transfer coefficient [2]. = 9- Calculate shell side friction factor = 10- Calculate shell side heat transfer coefficient = 11- Calculate of baffle spacing =
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13- Calculate tube length of the heat exchanger = This is the step to check the value of the assumed length, which it was necessary to assumed it to precede the calculation; it is provide the bases for the second trail, where the second assumed value should be closer and higher to the value of calculated length. 14- Calculate tube side heat transfer coefficient. = 15- Calculate tube side mass flow rate. = 4

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16- Calculate tube side pressure drop = 2 17- Calculate the overall heat transfer coefficient 1 1 1 =( + + ) 19- Calculate the total heat transfer area, for the purpose of cost estimation = Following above steps are the calculations of thermal design, which find the dimensions of the heat exchanger and the quantity of some feature, such as nozzles, baffles, shell and tubes. As it seems very lengthy and the error is not avoidable in manual calculation and the iteration is required to get the final and optimum design of given data which makes the design very lengthy. Therefore a computer program is developed in present work to ease the calculation and minimize the time. This would make the design an enjoyable task to get the optimum design with the help of computer. A C code is developed based on the method described above. Baffle cut is fixed to 25% as its the most efficient cut and for simplicity. The program allows the user to choose the different fluid for shell and tube side. The flow diagram of the computer program is illustrated in the Fig. 1. RESULT AND DISCUSSION The performance of the proposed model is illustrated through the analysis of the results obtained in an example of design tasks and comparing the solution reached with a shell and tube heat exchanger that employed in a locomotive for cooling the lubricating oil of the engine, the data had taken from diesel locomotive works, Varanasi. And the heat exchanger is employing to maintain the lubricating oil temperature between 65.6 C and 60 C. The requirement data to design the shell and tube heat exchanger is illustrated in table (1). Table (2) shows three columns. Run1 (with the same data of locomotive heat exchanger column) gives the acceptable design for a given data that the length assumed was 1.4 m and the
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calculated length is 1.37 m which it is quite close to the assumed one. The last column show the result of real heat exchanger (DLW, Varanasi) the design result is comparable with a deviation of 5-10%. Run2 contains the result of different input data (different in tube diameters only in Run1=0.019, in Run2=0.025) and is an example of how the designers (users) can use the program and examine the variable input parameters to get an optimum design for a particular task, following are the difference observed between Run1 and Run2: (1)The heat exchanger first cost has increased due to the increase in the heat transfer area. (2)Tube side heat transfer coefficient is not much affected with the change due to the fact that the velocity in tubes in both cases had been fixed at 2.25 m/s. (3)Shell side heat transfer coefficient is decreased. (4)Tube side pressure drop is less in Run2. (5)The overall heat transfer coefficient has decreased in Run2. This comparison shows that Run1 is the optimum design, which has a better utilization of allowable pressure drop to heat transfer coefficient, which Leads to a more economic design (less heat transfer area or the smaller heat exchanger) for a particular heat load. Table 1 Data of case study
Heat load = Flow configuration = Matrix geometry = Tube size (m) = Fluid Temperature in ( ) Temperature out ( ) Allowable pressure drop (Pa) Density ( / ) Heat capacity ( . ) Viscosity (Pa . s) Thermal conductivity ( . ) Total flow rate (kg/s) 211000 W 2 passes triangular pitch 0.019m outside diameter, 0.0166 inside diameter shell oil 65.6 60 14000 849 2100 0.031 0.156 18.2 tube water 32.2 43.52 10355 993 4200 0.00075 0.614 60

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Figure 1 Flow chart of the program

Table 2 Thermal-hydraulic result

Geometry no. of tubes shell diameter (m) nozzles diameter (m) baffle spacing (m) baffle cut baffle number tube length (m) heat transfer area ( ) tube side pressure drop (Pa) tube side heat coefficient ( . ) shell side heat coefficient( . ) over all heat coefficient( . ) present work Run1 241 0.439 0.088 0.274 25% 5 1.37 19.7 10167 8278 456.88 429.03 present work Run2 138 0.438 0.087 0.29 25% 8 2.4 25.28 9674.3 7755.4 413.8 390.13 Locomotive SHTH 253 0.4439 N.A. 0.25 34% 6 1.5 N.A. N.A. N.A. N.A. N.A.

(N.A.= not available)

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CONCLUSION The design strategy is based mainly on Tinker method which provides a good prediction for shell side flow. The design model was very close to the ideality. The optimization strategy is based on two things, (i) assumptions made for tube side velocity, utilization of all shell side pressure drop, and the fixed baffle cut. And (ii) the need of a computer aided design, that can be used to examine all the design parameters for a given heat load to get the economic design. This work and specially the computer program is useful for both the customers and the designers. A customer can get a first idea about the size and the component of the required heat exchanger and can select it from hundreds of the heat exchangers provided in manufacturers catalogues. And for the designer to test all the design parameters to get an economical design, and this can be made easily with the help of the computer program.

NOMENCLATURE
Q A Heat load ( ) The area of heat transfer ( ) Total number of tubes Total flow rate ( / ) Flow friction factor Tube length ( ) Tube inside diameter ( ) Tube outside diameter ( ) Number of tube side passes Diameter of circle circumscribed ( ) Reynolds number Reynolds number for pressure drop calculations Reynolds number for heat transfer coefficient calculations Shell diameter ( ) Nozzle diameter ( ) Ratio of the effective flow passage area for cross flow through the tube matrix to the total flow passage area A factor which when multiplied by gives the ratio of the baffle window pressure drop to the tube matrix pressure drop for the shell side flow Tube spacing ( ) Fraction of the shell side flow passing through the tube matrix for the determination of the pressure drop Factors used in the calculation of Fraction of the shell side flow passing through the tube matrix for the determination of the heat transfer coefficient Factors used in the calculation of
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Shell side mass flow rate for the determination of heat transfer coefficient ( )

Shell side mass flow rate for the determination of pressure drop (

Coefficient in step 5 Coefficient in step 5 Heat transfer coefficient ( ) The logarithmic mean temperature difference between the hot and cold fluids ( ) Correction factor applied to calculate Specific heat ( ) The temperature difference at shell side ( ) Baffle spacing ( ) The square root of (average number of tubes per transverse row/number of tubes rows) Mass flow rate ( ) Baffles number Nusslet number Thermal conductivity ( ) Prandtl number Tube conductance obtained by dividing the thermal conductivity of the wall by the tube thickness ( ) Overall heat transfer coefficient ( ) Tube-wall t thickness ( ) Tube-wall conductivity ( ) Fluid velocity ( )

Greek symbols Fluid viscosity ( Pressure drop ( Fluid density (

) ) )

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