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Plate & Frame Heat Exchanger
Plate & Frame Heat Exchanger
HEAT EXCHANGER
By
Farhan Ahmad
Carrying bar
Frame plate
Pressure
plate
Plate pack
Tightening bolts
4
Plates
Inlet / outlet Media 2 Inlet / outlet Media 1
Distribution area
Distribution area
Inlet / outlet Media 2 Inlet / outlet Media 1
5
Flow Patterns
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2. Single-pass looped arrangement:
U-arrangement
Z-arrangement
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PHE - Example Single Pass
Channel plates
End Plate II
End Plate I
Hot out
Cold in
Cold out
Hot in
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Multipass with equal passes
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PHE – Example Multipass
Pass/Channel: Hot Side 2 x 4
Cold Side 2 x 4
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4. Multipass with unequal pass
• 2 pass-1 pass,
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• 3 pass-1 pass,
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Design of PHE
• LMTD Method
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• ε- NTU Method
LMTD Method
• For both looped and series flow arrangements.
• The steps involved in the method are given next.
For series flow :
1 . Calculate the heat duty. Determine the inlet and outlet temperatures for both
the fluids.
2. Estimate LMTD for counterflow arrangement.
3. Estimate Reynolds number for the each stream, assuming an exchanger
containing one thermal plate, one pass for each stream, as given:
5. Estimate overall heat-transfer coefficient taking into account the wall thermal
resistance.
6. Estimate the total heat-transfer area from A = q/U LMTD.
values assumed in step 3. If the calculated values do not agree with the
assumed values, steps 3-9 are to be repeated, replacing the assumed values
with the values calculated from step 8 until there is agreement between the
two.
ε- NTU Method
1. Calculate the heat load, q, and from it determine the inlet and outlet
temperatures for both the fluids.
2. Calculate the bulk mean temperature and determine the thermo physical fluid
4. Assume an exchanger containing an infinite number of channels and find the
required NTU using the appropriate E-NTU relation.
5 . Estimate Reynolds number for the each stream, assuming an exchanger
containing one thermal plate, and one pass for each stream.
6. Calculate the heat-transfer coefficient on both sides. Estimate the overall heat-
For series flow :
7. Estimate the approximate number of thermal plates using the equation