Optimal design of

plate and frame heat

echanger s for
efficient heat
recovery in process
industries
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Plate heat exchangers (PHEs) are one of the most efficient
types of heat transfer equipment.. PHEs have a number of
advantages over shell and tube heat exchangers, such as
compactness, low total cost, less fouling, flexibility in changing
the heat transfer surface area, accessibility, and what is very
important for energy saving, a close temperature approach e
down to 1 K. However, due to the differ ences in construction
principles from conventional shell and tube heat exchangers,
PHEs require substantially different methods of thermal and
hydraulic design. This paper presents a computer aided
approach for PHE thermal and hydraulic design, based on
evaluation of different alternative options for available set of
heat transfer plates. It consists in development of
mathematical model for PHE, which accounts for possibility to
use plates of different corrugation geometries in one heat
exchanger, as well as adjustment of streams passes to satisfy
process conditions
 Plate and
frame heat
exchangers
conclusion
 Conclusion
The presented method and parameters in mathematical
model can be used for statistics when generalizing the
correlations for PHEs thermal and hydraulic performance, for
modelling of PHEs when making multiple calculations for heat
exchangers network design and also for education of
engineers specializing on heat transfer equipment selection.
On a final stage of ordering the PHE the calculations should
be made by PHE manufacturers, which are permanently
developing the design procedures and performance of
produced equipment, and most probably can offer PHE with
even better performance.
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