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GBHE-PEG-HEA-504 Thermal Design Margins For Heat Exchange
GBHE-PEG-HEA-504 Thermal Design Margins For Heat Exchange
GBHE-PEG-HEA-504 Thermal Design Margins For Heat Exchange
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0 INTRODUCTION/PURPOSE 3
1 SCOPE 3
2 FIELD OF APPLICATION 3
3 DEFINITIONS 3
4 TERMINOLOGY 3
7.1 General 5
7.2 Penalties of Over-design 6
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This document is one of a series on heat transfer prepared for GBH Enterprises.
1 SCOPE
This Guide explains the reasons for including a design margin, discusses the
various ways in which one can be provided and comments on the relative merits
of the different ways. It also gives some information on the accuracy of heat
exchanger designs with special reference to shell and tube heat exchangers.
2 FIELD OF APPLICATION
3 DEFINITIONS
For the purposes of this Process Engineering Guide, the following definitions
apply:
HTFS Heat Transfer and Fluid Flow Service. One of the suppliers of
thermal design software. See GBHE-PEG-HEA-502.
With the exception of terms used as proper nouns or titles, those terms with initial
capital letters which appear in this document and are not defined above are
defined in the Glossary of Engineering Terms.
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Several alternative terms are commonly used to describe the "design margin", for
example "safety factor", "% excess surface", "% over-design", "actual to required
area ratio".
An item of equipment may be designed to be larger than that needed to meet the
average design throughput of the plant at design conditions for several reasons.
The following list has been produced with heat exchangers in mind, but much of
it is equally applicable to other items of equipment.
The section of plant may be required to run at instantaneous rates above the
normal plant throughput as part of the normal plant operation to allow for different
availabilities of different sections of the plant. Designing for this condition does
not represent a true design margin, as the higher rate represents a normal
condition.
The engineer may wish to make provision for future plant uprating. If it is
probable that the plant will be uprated at some future date, there may be a case
for increasing the design throughput, with a corresponding increase in heat load.
However, the heat transfer coefficient under the initial operating conditions will be
lower than the design figure because of the lower velocities; the performance
under the initial operating conditions should be checked to determine the
expected safety margin at the initial conditions. Again, this does not represent a
true design margin, as after the uprating there will be no margin left.
Rather than installing the larger size unit initially, it may be preferable to make
provision for increasing the size of the exchanger at some later date, either by
replacing it with a larger unit, by adding an additional exchanger in parallel with
the original one or by adding heat transfer enhancement devices.
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The duty required from an exchanger may need to be above the steady state
value in order to provide some control function for another piece of equipment.
In spite of improvements made over many years, there are still uncertainties in
the predictive methods for heat transfer, especially for processes involving a
phase change. It is generally advisable for a critical duty to provide some form of
safety margin to allow for uncertainties in the design methods.
5.7 Fouling
Beware of over specifying design margins. During the course of a plant design,
several stages occur between the overall concept and detailed equipment
design. These might include:
Frequently, there may be more than one type of uncertainty associated with the
design of a heat exchanger, each of which might justify the inclusion of a design
margin. For example, there may be uncertainties in fouling resistance, physical
properties and ambient conditions. If the standard deviations for each area on
uncertainty are d1, d2, d3, .... then the overall uncertainty of design will have a
standard deviation of d0 where:
This is equivalent to saying that the combined margin for design M0 should be
given by:
where M1, M2, M3 are the margins which would be applied for the uncertainties
considered in isolation, expressed as fractional excess areas. This resulting
margin will be less than that obtained by a straight summation of the individual
margins. In particular, if the margin due to one particular factor is large compared
with the others, then the other margins will be largely irrelevant.
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7.1 General
(b) Exchangers which directly affect the plant production rate. Typical
examples are distillation column reboilers and condensers, some feed
heaters and run-down coolers and some fired heaters.
The distinction between "critical" and "non-critical" duties in some cases may be
somewhat arbitrary. Ultimately, a trade-off needs to be made in some way
between the cost of the exchanger and the consequences of under-design.
.Whereas the provision of a suitable design margin for a critical duty may be
necessary, this is not true for non-critical duties. In general, no margin should be
provided for non-critical duties.
Design margins are provided to compensate for uncertainties which could reduce the
calculated performance. However, these uncertainties could be unfounded, or even act
to improve performance, resulting in an oversized exchanger for the duty. In most cases,
the only penalty associated with an oversized exchanger is the extra capital cost.
However, there may be cases where an oversized exchanger can have positively
harmful effects.
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Thermosyphon boilers can present particular problems. The turndown ratio of such units
is limited; typically a 3:1 turndown is the most that can be achieved without running into
problems with stability or total failure to circulate. The performance and stability of such
units is influenced not only by the installed area but by also by the design of the
circulation pipework and the distribution of pressure drop around the circuit. For steam
heated boilers, it may also be necessary to run with sub-atmospheric steam to achieve
turn-down conditions with an oversized boiler. This can lead to problems of condensate
removal. It is imperative that the designer carry out performance runs for the design for
the complete operating range under both clean and fouled conditions. For more
information on vertical thermosyphon boilers, see GBHE-PEG-HEA-515
So far, it has been assumed that the required duty of the exchanger is fixed, and
the margin is required to ensure that this duty can be met. The exchanger
designer will then try to produce the "best" design which meets the duty within
the constraints, with some agreed margin.
However, in many cases, the duties of specific exchangers within the process are
not fixed a priori. The duty of these exchangers should be optimized by the
correct trade-off between capital and running costs, possibly with the assistance
of heat exchanger network design methods. Discussion of these methods is
beyond the scope of this guide.
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Note that the "area ratio" obtained when rating an exchanger, or the "percentage
over-design" obtained when rating an exchanger, is an indication of the extra
length of exchanger above that required.
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Sometimes a higher air or cooling water inlet temperature is specified for critical
services than for non-critical duties. This suffers from the disadvantage that the
actual margin on performance at normal air or water temperatures will depend on
the required product temperature. A refrigerant condenser designed using this
approach might have a 25% margin; for a reactor cooler/condenser, with a higher
outlet temperature, it might be only 5%.
The specification of design ambient temperature for air cooled heat exchangers
is discussed in sub clause 3.5 of GBHE-PEG-HEA-513. It should be used to
ensure that a critical unit is designed to meet its duty on warm days, but it is not
recommended to use this parameter to control design margins at other ambient
conditions.
If this approach is used, and the higher throughput is not actually likely to occur,
the allowable pressure drop supplied to the manufacturer should be increased
above the actual value by the square law, in order that he be not unduly
constrained. As the unit will end up being designed for a flowrate above that at
which the plant will run, it will not be possible to do performance checks at design
conditions.
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This reduces the overall heat transfer coefficient, hence resulting in a larger
surface area being selected for the exchanger. The designer will seek to
minimize the area, within the constraints of allowable pressure drop; the film
coefficients used will not be affected by the "safety margin" as is the case for
using an increased throughput. The approach is useful when dealing with a
manufacturer, as it enables the safety margin to be hidden from him. However, it
is good practice to disclose the actual safety margins in the final documentation,
so the expected fouling resistance should be recorded in the final revisions of the
data sheets.
In many ways this is the most satisfactory form of safety margin, and it does
allow the final unit to be checked against design conditions. However, it suffers
from the same drawback as does raising the design air or water temperature, in
that the margin will appear greater for units with a low outlet temperature.
As a general rule, a "safe" design will be produced if the heat load and viscosity
are overestimated and the thermal conductivity, specific heat and density are
underestimated. The percentage error in the prediction due to an error in any one
of these properties will be less than the percentage error in the property, typically
around one half. Note that for single phase cases, the specific heat and heat load
cannot be specified independently. For these cases, the "safe" design results
from overestimating the specific heat.
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It was stated earlier that one of the reasons for providing a design margin was
due to uncertainty in the design methods used. This Clause gives some
indication as to the likely magnitude of such errors.
For single phase flow in clean heat exchanger tubes, the estimated pressure
drop is likely to be accurate to within ±2%, assuming the physical properties are
known. The pressure drop in a fouled tube may be significantly higher, and may
not be estimated correctly by the computer programs used for exchanger design.
There are two factors resulting from fouling which are important here.
(a) Firstly, the fouling layer reduces the effective bore of the tube. For a
smooth tube, in turbulent single phase flow, the pressure drop is
inversely proportional to the diameter raised to the power 4.75.
Thus, a dirt layer which reduces the bore by 10% will increase
the pressure drop by 65%, all other things being equal.
(b) Secondly, the dirt layer is likely to increase the relative roughness
of the tube. The roughness of moderately rusty carbon steel is
typically 10 times that of clean steel. The effect this has on
pressure drop increases with Reynolds number. At a Reynolds
number of 10,000 it will give an increase in pressure drop of about
30-40%, at Re=100,000 about 90-100% and at Re=1,000,000
about 250%. These increases will be compounded with
those due to the reduction in bore.
Commercially available programs, allow the user to input the thickness of the
fouling layer, and use this to determine the effective tube diameter for pressure
drop calculations. However, these calculations take no account of the effect of
fouling on roughness.
Some programs make no allowance for the effect of fouling on pressure drop.
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Shell-side flow is considerably more complex than tubeside flow. The models
used in some commercially available programs are based on a method usually
known as "stream analysis". The shell-side flow is divided between five parallel
routes: tube-to-baffle leakage, cross-flow over the bundle, bypassing round the
outside of the bundle, baffle-to-shell leakage and pass-partition
lane leakage. (referred to in some programs as the "A", "B", "C", "E" and "F"
streams respectively.) The models adjust the flow split until the calculated
pressure drops for each stream are equal.
The relative magnitudes of these streams affect not only the heat transfer, but
also the pressure drop. It is not possible to give simple guidance here on the
magnitude of such effects. However, some feel for the problem can be obtained
by performing computer runs with different clearances. This simulates the
blockage of the leakage paths by fouling deposits. It is not unusual for the
predicted pressure drop to double if the baffle-to-shell and tube-to-baffle
clearances are reduced from the normal design figures to zero.
Some programs will adjust the clearances between tube and baffle to allow for
the effect of the fouling layer thickness input by the user. Some programs do not;
in order to simulate the fouled condition, the clearance has to be input. Note that
in some programs a value of zero clearance may be interpreted as a request for
the default value. If zero clearance is required, it may be necessary to input a
small number. See program manuals of the software for more detail.
For single phase turbulent flow in tubes, the ESDU correlation, has a
claimed (root mean square) error of 10.2%. Similar accuracy can be
expected from other correlations. For transitional and laminar flow, higher
errors can be expected.
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As for pressure drop, heat transfer predictions for the shell side of shell
and tube exchangers are complicated by the flow distribution. Some
programs suggest an accuracy of ±25% for single phase turbulent flow.
The choice of design margin ultimately lies with the process engineer and the
designer and will be influenced by the nature of the process and the criticality of
the exchanger in question. The degree of uncertainty in the fouling resistances
should also be taken into consideration. The figures given in 11.1 to 11.3 should
be regarded only as guides.
11.2 Condensers
For multi-component cases, values around 10% for non-critical duties and 20%
for critical duties are suggested, the margin being provided by extra tube length.
11.3 Boilers
For boilers, it is generally worth considering the design margin in terms of the
ratio of the maximum to desired evaporation capacity. For cases where the
boiling resistance is dominant, particularly for multi-component systems, a
margin of 10-20% is recommended.
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An exchanger which has less than the necessary surface will have a lower heat
duty than required. However, the effect is generally not directly proportional to
the shortfall in surface; an exchanger with only 90% of the required surface will
generally perform more than 90% of the required duty.
For single phase duties it is possible to estimate the effects of over- or under-
surface on exchanger performance from a theoretical analysis. The change in
heat load for a given change in surface area depends on the exchanger pass
arrangement, the ratio of the product of heat capacity and flowrate for the hot and
cold streams, C*, and the number of heat transfer units in the exchanger, NTU,
(NTU = U.A/Cmin, where U is the overall heat transfer coefficient, A is the
area and Cmin is the product of heat capacity and flowrate for the stream showing
the greater temperature change.) The NTU value is a measure of the "thermal
length" of the exchanger; duties with a large temperature overlap between the
streams have a large value of NTU.
Figure 1 shows the effect of changes in exchanger length on heat load for a pure
countercurrent exchanger with C* = 1. It can be seen that as the number of
transfer units for the base case is increased, the effect on performance of a given
fractional change in length reduces. For a duty requiring an NTU value of 5, a
50% increase in length only results in a 6% increase in duty. Conversely, an
exchanger of only the necessary length is still capable of 85% of the required
duty.
Even for a very low value of NTU, a 50% increase in the number of tubes gives
only 8.5% improvement in performance, whilst for NTU=5 the improvement is
only 1.3%. This confirms what was said above, that the provision of a design
margin by adding additional surface in parallel is not a good policy.
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