Optimization of heat exchanger shell and tube design using helical baffle and coiled wire insert technology

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ahmad Syafii ◽  
Totok R. Biyanto
2020 ◽  
Vol 1569 ◽  
pp. 042091
Author(s):  
I M Arsana ◽  
A H A Rasyid ◽  
Soeryanto ◽  
N S Drastiawati ◽  
S R Ariyanto

2019 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 43-52
Author(s):  
Linta Atina Rahmah ◽  
Devy Setiorini Sa’adiyah ◽  
Sulistijono Sulistijono

E-201-11 is one of the components of heat exchanger which serves to increase the temperature of distillated crude oil before it going into the furnace. The use of segmental baffles on the heat exchanger causes dead zone. The fouling phenomenon that arises from the deposition of the compound content in the service fluid in dead zone can result in leakage of the shell and tube. It affects the performance of heat exchanger and production efficiency. The use of discontinuous helical baffle on the shell side minimizes fouling. Research on the variation of helical baffle angle by using Bell-Delaware method resulted in performance value of heat transfer coefficient and pressure drop on the shell side. Fluid flow behavior on the shell side with helical baffle was analyzed by Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD). The fluid flow velocity is a factor that affects the value of heat transfer coefficient and pressure drop. Heat exchanger with an angle of 10º have fluid flow velocity of 0,893m/s resulting in the highest heat transfer coefficient and pressure drop value compared to angles of 15º and 20º with values of 585.725W/m²K and 13642.395Pa. The heat exchanger with helical baffle at 10° helix angle presents the best performance among the others variant helical baffles


2007 ◽  
Vol 129 (10) ◽  
pp. 1425-1431 ◽  
Author(s):  
B. Peng ◽  
Q. W. Wang ◽  
C. Zhang ◽  
G. N. Xie ◽  
L. Q. Luo ◽  
...  

Two shell-and-tube heat exchangers (STHXs) using continuous helical baffles instead of segmental baffles used in conventional STHXs were proposed, designed, and tested in this study. The two proposed STHXs have the same tube bundle but different shell configurations. The flow pattern in the shell side of the heat exchanger with continuous helical baffles was forced to be rotational and helical due to the geometry of the continuous helical baffles, which results in a significant increase in heat transfer coefficient per unit pressure drop in the heat exchanger. Properly designed continuous helical baffles can reduce fouling in the shell side and prevent the flow-induced vibration as well. The performance of the proposed STHXs was studied experimentally in this work. The heat transfer coefficient and pressure drop in the new STHXs were compared with those in the STHX with segmental baffles. The results indicate that the use of continuous helical baffles results in nearly 10% increase in heat transfer coefficient compared with that of conventional segmental baffles for the same shell-side pressure drop. Based on the experimental data, the nondimensional correlations for heat transfer coefficient and pressure drop were developed for the proposed continuous helical baffle heat exchangers with different shell configurations, which might be useful for industrial applications and further study of continuous helical baffle heat exchangers. This paper also presents a simple and feasible method to fabricate continuous helical baffles used for STHXs.


2017 ◽  
Vol 35 (2) ◽  
pp. 378-383 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dipankar De ◽  
Tarun Pal ◽  
Santanu Bandyopadhyay

2019 ◽  
Vol 30 (8) ◽  
pp. 4119-4140 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ali Akbar Abbasian Arani ◽  
Hamed Uosofvand

Purpose This paper aims to investigate the fluid flow and heat transfer of a laboratory shell and tube heat exchanger that are analyzed using computational fluid dynamic approach by SOLIDWORKS flow simulation (ver. 2015) software. Design/methodology/approach In this study, several types of baffle including segmental baffle, butterfly baffle, helical baffle, combined helical-segmental baffle, combined helical-disk baffle and combined helical-butterfly baffle are examined. Two important parameters as the heat transfer and pressure drop are evaluated and analyzed. Based on obtained results, segmental baffle has the highest amount of heat transfer and pressure drop. To assess the integrative performance, performance coefficient defines as “Q/Δp” is used. Findings This investigation showed that among the presented baffle types, the heat exchangers equipped with disk baffle has the highest heat transfer. In addition, in the same mass flow rate, the performance coefficient of the shell and tube heat exchanger equipped with helical-butterfly baffle is the highest among the proposed models. Originality/value After combined helical-butterfly baffle the butterfly baffle, disk baffle, helical-segmental baffle and helical-disk baffle show their superiority of 35.12, 25, 22 and 12 per cent rather than the common segmental baffle, respectively. Furthermore, except for the combined helical-disk baffle, the other type of combined baffle have better performance compare to the basic configuration (butterfly and segmental baffle).


Author(s):  
Partha Pratim Saikia ◽  
Abhik Majumder

Shell and tube heat exchanger (STHX) is a class of indirect contact heat exchangers which has wide applications in various industries. In this paper, the shell-side performance characteristics of a small STHX with differently notched continuous helical baffle (CHB) geometries are numerically studied and compared with same CHB without notched regions. The indentations are uniquely produced by placing the notch near the core of the heat exchanger, thereby conferring the flow with low-pressure drop regions. Two set of models of inner notched continuous helical baffle (ICHB), i.e., ICHB1 and ICHB2, are studied with notch width of about 5% and 10% of the inner shell diameter of the same heat exchanger. In comparison with the CHBSTHX, it is seen that the STHXs incorporated with ICHBs, the heat transfer rate dropped slightly, but a significant decrease in pressure drop is observed. It is found that the heat transfer coefficient to pressure drop ratio for ICBH1 and ICHB2 shows significant increase in comprehensive performance of about 3.5% and 32.42%, respectively, when compared with same CHB without notched regions.


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