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Category Archives: Heat Exchange
Designing Heat Exchangers to Prevent Fouling
Hey all, just an update to mention I found an aged but excellent article about designing heat exchangers to prevent fouling: No Fooling – No Fouling, by Charles H. Gilmour. Chemical Engineering Progress Magazine July 1965; Volume 61, No. 7. … Continue reading
Fouling Factors for Heat Exchanger Design
In this post I’ll list a few resources to find fouling factors for your heat exchanger designs. But first, let’s take a step back and review the definition and purpose of fouling factors in heat exchanger design. Recall that in … Continue reading
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Tagged fouling factor, heat exchange, heat exchanger, shell and tube heat exchanger
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Heat Exchanger Fluid Allocation: Shellside or Tubeside?
It’s the first question to hit you with every shell-and-tube heat exchanger. It comes up when you are designing a heat exchanger, or just trying to draw one into a process sketch, process flow diagram, or piping and instrumentation diagram. … Continue reading
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Tagged corrosion, fluid allocation, rules of thumb, shell and tube heat exchanger, shell side, shellside, tube side, tubeside
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Insulation Design Programs (Free)
Ever had to select insulation for a new pipe, or estimate the energy losses from pipes and equipment? Or do the economic justification for thicker insulation? Try either of the two free programs in this post. Try out 3e Plus … Continue reading
Consider Finned Tubes to Increase Surface Area
This post will introduce the practice of adding fins to shell-and-tube heat exchanger tubes to increase the surface area, and discuss when to consider it and when to avoid it. This is not a post about air coolers. Image of … Continue reading