CHE 317
EQUIPMENT DESIGN
TUTORIAL-1
1. Oil at 130°C is used to heat water at 40°C in a 1-1 co-current shell and tube heat exchanger. The
available heat exchanger area is S1. The exit temperatures of the oil and the water streams are 100°C
and 70°C respectively. The co-current heat exchanger is replaced by a 1-1 countercurrent heat
exchanger having heat exchange area S2. If the exit temperatures and the overall heat transfer
coefficients are same, what will be the ratio of S1 to S2.
2. The logarithmic mean temperature difference of a counter flow exchanger is 20°C.The cold fluid
enters at 20°C and the hot fluid enters at 100°C. Mass flow rate of the cold fluid is twice that of the
hot fluid. Specific heat at constant pressure of the hot fluid is twice that of the cold fluid. A design
engineer stated that one of the possible exit temperatures of the cold fluid is 80°C. Do you agree
with his calculation? Justify your answer.
3. In a process plant, the tubes of a shell and tube heat exchanger required replacement. As the
replacement tubes were not of the original tube size, the process engineer decided to go for tubes
with half the original tube inside diameter. He operated the heat exchanger at a tube side flow rate
twice that of the original case. What would be the consequence of these changes on the tube side
heat transfer coefficient? The flow in the tube side before and after replacement was found to be
turbulent.
4.Design a shell and tube exchanger to sub-cool condensate from a methanol condenser from
95℃ to 40℃. Flow-rate of methanol is 100,000 kg/h. Water will be used as the coolant, with
a temperature rise from 25℃ to 40℃.
5. Design a shell-and-tube exchanger for the following duty:
20,000 kg/h of kerosene leaves the base of a kerosene side-stripping column at 200℃ and is to
be cooled to 90℃ by heat exchange with 70,000 kg/h of light crude oil coming from storage
tank at 40℃. The properties of the fluid can be taken as follows:
Fluid Density Specific heat Dynamic Thermal
(kg/m3) (kJ/kg K) viscosity conductivity
(cP) (W/mK)
Kerosene 730 2.47 0.43 0.132
Crude oil 820 2.05 3.2 0.134
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