Heat exchanger setting

Engine aging conditions Inlet to first pass heat exchanger set at 760°C for 75 hrs... 

Automated programs are now available for many heat exchanger setting plans and tube layout sketches, electrical one-line and control wiring diagrams, fur-... 

EXHIBIT 17-5 AutomaticaUy Generated Heat Exchanger Setting Plan... 

The energy cost of the process can be set without having to design the heat exchanger network and utility system. These energy targets cam be calculated directly from the material and energy balance. Thus... 

Repeatability. This refers to two aspects of inspection similarity between objects that are inspected and possibility of maintaining constant inspection conditions (settings) for all the inspections performed. Obviously, interpretation of data in repeatable conditions is significantly simplified. Usually, inspection during or after manufacturing process will be repeatable. Another example of repeatable inspection is inspection of heat exchangers in power nuclear plants, inspection of aircrafts as these are well standardised. However, a large part of the NDT inspection done is not repeatable. 

In petrochemical plants, fans are most commonly used ia air-cooled heat exchangers that can be described as overgrown automobile radiators (see HeaT-EXCHANGEtechnology). Process fluid ia the finned tubes is cooled usually by two fans, either forced draft (fans below the bundle) or iaduced draft (fans above the bundles). Normally, one fan is a fixed pitch and one is variable pitch to control the process outlet temperature within a closely controlled set poiat. A temperature iadicating controller (TIC) measures the outlet fluid temperature and controls the variable pitch fan to maintain the set poiat temperature to within a few degrees. 

Combinatorial. Combinatorial methods express the synthesis problem as a traditional optimization problem which can only be solved using powerful techniques that have been known for some time. These may use total network cost direcdy as an objective function but do not exploit the special characteristics of heat-exchange networks in obtaining a solution. Much of the early work in heat-exchange network synthesis was based on exhaustive search or combinatorial development of networks. This work has not proven useful because for only a typical ten-process-stream example problem the alternative sets of feasible matches are cal.55 x 10 without stream spHtting. 

The pressure used in producing gas wells often ranges from 690— 10,300 kPa (100—1500 psi). The temperature of the inlet gas is reduced by heat-exchange cooling with the gas after the expansion. As a result of the cooling, a liquid phase of natural gas liquids that contains some of the LPG components is formed. The liquid is passed to a set of simple distillation columns in which the most volatile components are removed overhead and the residue is natural gasoline. The gas phase from the condensate flash tank is compressed and recycled to the gas producing formation. 

Waste-Heat Boiler. In a waste-heat boder (Fig. 6), the approach AT sets both the amount of the unrecovered energy and the amount of heat-exchange surface. When terms are added for energy value, and surface cost, the optimum occurs when... 

Variables It is possible to identify a large number of variables that influence the design and performance of a chemical reactor with heat transfer, from the vessel size and type catalyst distribution among the beds catalyst type, size, and porosity to the geometry of the heat-transfer surface, such as tube diameter, length, pitch, and so on. Experience has shown, however, that the reactor temperature, and often also the pressure, are the primary variables feed compositions and velocities are of secondary importance and the geometric characteristics of the catalyst and heat-exchange provisions are tertiary factors. Tertiary factors are usually set by standard plant practice. Many of the major optimization studies cited by Westerterp et al. (1984), for instance, are devoted to reactor temperature as a means of optimization. 

Industry sets limits that bound our degrees of freedom and thus tend to shorten our design case study load. We are all aw are of such limits and this last category is included primarily for completeness. Examples include minimum industrial thickness for carbon steel plate, and maximum baffle cut for shell and tube heat exchangers. 

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