Stream allocation is an
important decision in heat exchanger design. This decision can impact
the heat exchanger life, can also make the difference between higher and
lower maintenance costs. Can also have a high impact on the thermal
performance the heat exchanger. This short article aims to discuss the
process of determining the fluid allocations in shell and tube heat
exchangers. The decision is made based on the criteria below:
1- Fouling:
Check fouling factors for each fluid.
The fluid/stream with the high fouling factor should be in tubes – this makes it easy to clean and prolongs the exchanger life. Placing the fouling fuild in the tubes also allows better velocity control as increased velocities tend to reduce fouling.
2- Pressure:
Higher pressure fluid/stream is placed in Tube side. This hasan effect on the shell thickess as placing the high pressure fluid in the tubes would mean that the shell thickness can be reduced.
3- Corrosion rate:
Higher rate fluid/stream is placed in Tube side. In general fewer corrosion resistant alloys are needed if the corrosive fluid is placed on the tube side
4- Viscosity
Fluid/Stream with higher viscosity is placed in the Shell Side as higher heat transfer rates are generally obtained using this practice.
5- Phase change
The stream with phase change is assigned to Shell Side
in steam heated vaporizers/reboilers the condensing steam is placed in Tube Side
I hope the above provide a simple guidline for anyone not sure about this issue.
From WeBBusterZ Engineering Articles Blog
1- Fouling:
Check fouling factors for each fluid.
The fluid/stream with the high fouling factor should be in tubes – this makes it easy to clean and prolongs the exchanger life. Placing the fouling fuild in the tubes also allows better velocity control as increased velocities tend to reduce fouling.
2- Pressure:
Higher pressure fluid/stream is placed in Tube side. This hasan effect on the shell thickess as placing the high pressure fluid in the tubes would mean that the shell thickness can be reduced.
3- Corrosion rate:
Higher rate fluid/stream is placed in Tube side. In general fewer corrosion resistant alloys are needed if the corrosive fluid is placed on the tube side
4- Viscosity
Fluid/Stream with higher viscosity is placed in the Shell Side as higher heat transfer rates are generally obtained using this practice.
5- Phase change
The stream with phase change is assigned to Shell Side
in steam heated vaporizers/reboilers the condensing steam is placed in Tube Side
I hope the above provide a simple guidline for anyone not sure about this issue.
From WeBBusterZ Engineering Articles Blog
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