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2ME377 Heat Exchanger: A True Mediator !!! A Device Which Enhanced The Utility of Fire!!!
2ME377 Heat Exchanger: A True Mediator !!! A Device Which Enhanced The Utility of Fire!!!
The first real advancement in heat exchanger came about with the invention of the Plain Cylinder Boiler. It was a simple design and easily constructed. As its name implies, the Plain Cylinder Boiler is a long metal cylinder with conical (round) ends set horizontally in a brick work. Some of these boilers were 40 feet long. The cylinder was half filled with water and a fire ignited in furnace at one end.
Economics was the driving force behind new designs for HXs. Development of the Cornish Boiler was a step in that direction. Until that time designers had always placed the furnace beneath the water cylinder. Attempts to make use of the heat that was going up the chimney were limited to simply rapping the hot gasses around the boiler several times. A genius had the idea of putting the fire where it would do the most good, in with the water. Not actually "IN" the water but literally inside the cylinder containing the water.
The need for smaller more powerful, to say nothing of safer, HXs finally led to the Lancashire Boiler design. Basically the same as the Cornish Boiler with its internal furnace design. The first advance was in the number of furnaces. Each boiler had two completely separate furnaces sitting side by side. And each furnace had a separate flue system. At first this might seem silly yet the idea behind having two separate fires going at the same time is outstanding.
Engineers and designers of steam boilers had long understood the relationship between the amount of heat generated in a furnace and the ability of water to absorb that heat. Basically, the larger water surface exposed to the heat the more heat is transferred to the water. Like the Cornish and Lancashire boilers, the Scotch Boiler utilizes internal furnaces with the fire box and primary flue traversing the lower portion of the water cylinder. Yet unlike the Lancashire boiler, the Scotch boiler does not utilize Galloway tubes. Instead, the designers choose to manufacture the water tank from corrugated plates.
Course Rules
1 MT exams and term projects Regular Homework Assignments Mathcad use required for some exams and Homework assignments Before the finals there will be a session for oral presentation of term projects 100% attendance is expected
Design Problem
Design problems will be selected in consultation with the instructor. Projects will be group design projects. The objective of the projects is to set the student to try to do a thermal design of a heat exchanger using the fundamentals of thermodynamics, fluid mechanics and heat transfer. There will be a written reports and an oral presentation.
Textbook
Heat Exchangers: Selection, Rating and Thermal Design, 2nd ed. by Sadk Kaka and Hongtan Liu, CRC Press 2002 There are other books in the library that you can use as a reference (e.g. Handbooks of Heat Exchangers and Heat Transfer) CRC Handbook of Chemistry and Physics is a good reference for properties
Course outline
Topic Introduction (2 lectures) Basic Design Methods (3) Design Correlations (2) Pressure Drop in Heat Exchangers (3) Fouling of Heat Exchangers (3) Reading Chapter 1 Chapter 2 Chapter 3 Chapter 4 Chapter 5
Double-Pipe Heat Exchangers (3) Shell-and-tube Heat Exchangers (4) Gasketed-Plate Heat Exchangers (4) Compact Heat Exchangers (3) Correlations for two-phase flow (3) Condensers and Evaporators (4) Steam Generators (2)
Main Classification
Recuperators / Regenerators Direct Contact / Transmural heat transfer Single / Two phase Geometry