Advance Course in industrial heat exchanger

 

1. Introduction to industrial heat exchanger

 

1.1. Classification and selection of heat exchanger

1.2. Shell and tube exchangers

1.3. Newer design of shell and tube exchangers

1.4. Compact heat exchangers

1.5. Thermal design

1.6. Mean temperature difference

 

2. Physical properties of working fluids and principle relations

 

2.1. General characteristics of working fluids

2.2. Properties of liquids

2.3. Properties of combustion product

2.4. Continuity, momentum and energy equations

2.5. Governing equations of heat transfer in a gas flow and in an incompressible flow

2.6. Boundary and entail conditions

 

3. Shell and Tube heat exchangers

 

3.1 Principle types of shell and Tube

3.2 Types of tube, tube thickness, pitch and tube count bafflers

3.3 Uses of Multi-Pass units

3.4 Tube sheet, double sheet

3.5 Seal strips, nozzles, flanges, expansion joints, and packing glands and gaskets

3.6 Pressure relief devices and supports and lifting lugs

3.7 Heat exchangers specification sheet

 

4. Shell and Tube heat exchangers-Process design with and without phase change.

 

4.1 Effects of various Geometrical and process parameters on the performance of an exchanger

4.2 Uses of liquid-Liquid, Liquid-Gas, and Gas-Gas exchangers

4.3 Coolers and cooling water

4.4 Closed feed water waiter heaters

4.5 Condensers and re-boilers

4.6 Evaporators and vaporizers

4.7 Double pipe heat exchangers

 


5. Augmented Surface Heat Exchangers

 

5.1 Extended (finned) surface heat exchangers

5.2 Turbulators and static mixers

5.3 Air-Fin coolers

5.4 Plate heat exchangers

5.5 Spiral plate heat exchangers

5.6 Heat exchangers dynamics

5.7 Heat exchangers optimization

 

6. Heat Exchangers for Special Services

 

6.1 High temperature heat exchangers

6.2 Cryogenic heat exchangers

6.3 Heat exchangers for corrosive services

6.4 Nuclear power plant heat exchangers

6.5 Liquid metals and molten salt heat exchangers

 

7. Corrosion, Evasion, Fouling, Water treatment and Vibration

 

7.1 General introduction

7.2 Corrosion and Erosion effects

7.3 Fouling and water treatment

7.4 Factors causing vibrations

7.5 Effects of shell-Side flow and Resonance

7.6 Damaging effects of vibrations

7.7 Vibration Preventation

 

8. Installation, Operation and Maintenance

 

8.1 General introduction

8.2 Installation and Operation

8.3 Maintenance and Repairs

8.4 Troubleshooting in heat exchangers

8.5 Industrial applications for heat exchangers

 

9. Design of high-Performance Heat Exchangers

 

9.1 Design aspects of heat exchangers

9.2 Compact heat exchangers

9.3 Fouling of heating surfaces

9.4 Efficiency of heat exchangers

 

10. Anticipation of operating problems in the design of heat transfer Equipment.

 

10.1 Deficiencies in heat transfer and pressure loss rating

10.2 Failure to visualize heat Vs Temperature Relations

10.3 Maldistribution of flow

10.4 Mechanical design and differential thermal expansion