Experimental Construction and Analysis of Heat Exchanger

Abstract

Heat exchanger is equipment used to transfer heat from one fluid to another. It has extensive domestic and industrial applications. Extensive technical literature is available on heat exchanger design, operation and maintenance, but it is widely scattered throughout the industrial bulletins, industrial design codes and standard, technical journals, etc. The purpose of this book chapter is to consolidate into basic background and concepts design of heat exchangers, operation, cleaning and green technology maintenance on heat exchanger closely related to the industrial practices. A shell and tube heat exchanger model is presented in this paper. By this experiment, it is possible to know the features of heat exchanger as well as different kind of materials which are most commonly used as tube materials. In this thesis, a comparison between overall heat transfer coefficient for copper and aluminum tube heat exchanger has been presented. The model structure, its range of validity and accuracy are described in detail.