Experiment Title (this format is just for the close-

ended lab)
Name of group members (Stdudent ID) 5. A drain hose was connected to the cold water drain
point.
6. Main power was switched on. The heater for the hot
water tank was switched on and the temperature
I. PROCEDURES controller was set to 50℃.
7. The water temperature in the hot water tank was
allowed to reach the set point.
The experimentation of heat exchangers is conducted using
the SOLTEQ HE158C heat exchanger as in Fig 1. It is a device 8. The equipment was now ready to be run.
used to investigate the effect of varied flow rates on heat
transfer in various types of heat exchangers. This equipment
supports all four types of heat exchangers: concentric, spiral, Counter-current Shell & Tube Heat Exchanger Procedures:
shell-and-tube, and plate heat exchangers. For this experiment,
the focus was on shell and tube heat exchanger. 1. General start-up procedures were performed.
2. The valves to counter-current Shell & Tube Heat
Exchanger arrangement was switched.
3. Pumps P1 and P2 were switched on.
4. Valves V3 and V14 were adjusted and opened to
obtain the desired flowrates for hot water and cold-
water streams, respectively.
5. The system was allowed to reach steady state for 10
minutes.
6. FT1, FT2, TT1, TT2, TT3 and TT4 were recorded.
7. Pressure drop measurements for shell-side and tube
side were recorded for pressure drop studies.
8. Steps 4 to 7 were repeated for different combinations
of flowrate FT1 and FT2.
9. Pumps P1 and P2 were switched off after the
completion of experiment.

Figure 1: Experimental Setup of SOLTEQ Heat Exchanger General Shutdown Procedure:

Shell and Tube.
1. The heater was switched off. The hot water
temperature was waited until it dropped below 40oC.
General Start-up Procedure: 2. All the pumps, Pump 1 and Pump 2 were switched
1. A quick inspection was performed to make sure that off.
the equipment is in proper working condition. 3. Equalized (vertical or “0”) on DP Selector Switch.
2. All valves were initially closed except V1 and V12. 4. The main power was switched off.
3. Hot tank was filled via a water supply hose connected 5. All water in the process line was drained off. The
to valve V27. Once the tank is full, the valve was water in the hot and cold-water tanks were retained for
closed. next laboratory sessions.
4. The cold-water tank was filled up by opening valve 6. All valves were closed.
V28 and the valve was left opened for continuous
water supply.
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Additional information in appendices extracted from resources cited in references, concise and closely related to the experiment.
Raw data recorded can be included here.