Syllabus
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Course Code: *Elective - IV MTTH-114 Course Name: Design of Heat Transfer Equipments |
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| MODULE NO / UNIT | COURSE SYLLABUS CONTENTS OF MODULE | NOTES |
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| 1 | Heat Exchangers – Classification according to transfer process, number of fluids, surface compactness, and
construction features. Tubular heat exchanger, plate type heat exchangers, extended surface heat exchangers,
heat pipe, Regenerators. Classification according to flow arrangement: counter flow, parallel flow, cross flow
exchanger. Heat exchanger design methodology- assumption for heat transfer analysis, problem formulation, e-NTU method, P-NTU method, Mean temperature difference method, fouling of heat exchanger, effects of fouling, categories of fouling, fundamental processes of fouling. |
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| 2 | Double Pipe Heat Exchangers: Thermal and Hydraulic design of inner tube, Thermal and hydraulic analysis of
Annulus, Total pressure drop. Compact Heat Exchangers: Thermal and Hydraulic design of compact heat exchanger Shell and Tube heat exchangers – Tinker’s, kern’s, and Bell Delaware’s methods, for thermal and hydraulic design of Shell and Tube heat exchangers. |
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| 3 | Heat Exchanger Pressure Drop Analysis: Importance of Pressure Drop, Devices, Extended Surface Heat
Exchanger Pressure Drop, Tubular Heat Exchanger Pressure Drop, Tube Banks, Shell-and-Tube Exchangers,
Plate Heat Exchanger Pressure Drop, Pipe Losses, Non-dimensional Presentation of Pressure Drop Data Heat Transfer Characteristics: Dimensionless Surface Characteristics, Experimental Techniques for Determining Surface Characteristics, Steady-State Kays and London Technique, Wilson Plot Technique, Transient Test Techniques, Friction Factor Determination, Hydrodynamic ally Developing Flows, Thermally Developing Flows, Extended Reynolds Analogy, Heat Exchanger Surface Geometrical Characteristics, Selection of Heat Exchangers and Their Components, Temperature Difference Distributions |
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| 4 | Mechanical Design of Heat Exchangers – Design standards and codes, key terms in heat exchanger design,
material selection, and thickness calculation for major components such as tube sheet, shell, tubes, flanges
and nozzles. Introduction to simulation and optimization of heat exchangers, flow induced vibrations. Hair-Pin Heat Exchangers: Introduction to Counter-flow Double-pipe or Hair-Pin heat exchangers, Industrial versions of the same, Film coefficients in tubes and annuli, Pressure drop, Augmentation of performance of hair-pin heat exchangers, Series and Series-Parallel arrangements of hair-pin heat exchangers, Comprehensive Design Algorithm for hair-pin heat exchangers, Numerical Problems. |
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