Design of a Double Pipe Heat Exchanger

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Instructions 1) Define your Parameters (blue cells). Provide initial guesses for the parameter you will change in step 2 (i.e. mass flowrates 2) Use Goal Seek to set value in Heat Balance to 0 by varying a parameter (e.g. flowrates) Notes Hot fluid is on the shell side, cold fluid is on the tube side The log mean temperature difference is set up for cocurrent flow (but can be eaily modified for countercurrent flow) PARAMETERS Inside Pipe Thermal Conductivity Inlet Temperature Outlet Temperature Thermal Conductivity Specific Heat Capacity Viscosity Density Mass Flow Rate Inside Diameter Outside Diameter Pressure Loss Coefficient CALCULATIONS Heat Transfer Prandtl Number Flow Area Hydraulic Diameter Heat Transfer Surface Area Fluid Velocity Reynolds Number Friction Factor Nusselt Number Heat Transfer Coefficient Pressure Drop kp Tin Tout k Cp m rho m di do Kp
-1 -1 40 W m K Hot Fluid Cold Fluid

120 85 0.7 4100 0.0003 970 1.03239 0.07 0.08 1.23

9C 35 C
-1 -1 0.78 W m K -1 -1 4070 J kg K 0.0008 Pa s -3 1000 kg m

1.4 kg s 0.0508 m 0.054 m 1.23

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Hot Fluid Cold Fluid Q 148148 148148 W Pr 1.757143 4.174359 2 A 0.001558 0.00229 m Dh 0.016 0.057402 m 2 As 1.10126 1.036 m V Re f Nu 0.683031 35335.49 0.005682 124.3065 h 5438.408 DP 2921.237 0.611295 m s 43861.6 0.0054 227.7593 3094.902 W m-2K-1 1145.843 Pa
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HEAT EXCHANGER DESIGN CALCULATIONS Length L 6.491518 m DTLMTD 76.48834 C Log Mean Temp Diff (cocurrent) Overall Heat Transfer Coefficient Heat Transfer UA Qoverall 1936.87 W K 148148 W
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parameter you will change in step 2 (i.e. mass flowrates) eter (e.g. flowrates)

can be eaily modified for countercurrent flow)

Set to 0 by varying a parameter (e.g. flowrates) with Goal Seek

Heat Balance Qhot - Qcold