Title – Fabrication of Cross Flow Heat Exchanger

A heat exchanger is a device built for efficient heat transfer from one fluid or gas to
another, whether the fluids are separated by a solid wall so that they never mix, or the fluids
are directly contacted. They are widely used in petroleum refineries, chemical plants,
petrochemical plants, natural gas processing, refrigeration, power plants, air conditioning and
space heating. One common example of a heat exchanger is the radiator in a car, in which a
hot engine-cooling fluid, like antifreeze, transfers heat to air flowing through the radiator.
Heat exchanger is a device designed to transfer heat between two physically separated
fluids. Any of several devices that transfer heat from a hot to a cold fluid, in many
engineering applications, one fluid needs to be heated and another cooled, a requirement
economically accomplished by a heat exchanger. In shell-and-tube exchangers, many tubes
are mounted inside a shell. one fluid flows in the tubes and the other flows in the shell,
outside the tubes. The goal of heat exchanger design is to relate the inlet and outlet
temperatures, the overall heat transfer coefficient, and the geometry of the heat exchanger, to
the rate of heat transfer between the two fluids. The material used for this heat exchanger is
mild steel. Digital Temperature sensor has used to measure the temperature difference and
then the heat transfer rate could be calculated manually.