Heat transfer exchange

Example 10-9. Convection Heat Transfer Exchanger Design... 

The air-cooled heat transfer exchanger is like other exchangers in that the basic heat transfer equation must be statisfied ... 

Outside Coil - The heat-transfer (exchanger) component of a heatpump, located outdoors, from which heat is collected in the heating mode, or expelled in the cooling mode. 

Radiation heat transfer exchange between the discretized catalytic surface elements as well as between each surface element and the reactor inlet and outlet disk areas was accounted for by the net radiation method for diflfuse-gray areas [6]. The inlet, outlet, and channel-element emissivities were all equal and the radiation exchange temperatures for the entry and outlet were equal to the corresponding mean gas temperatures. 

One disadvantage of fluidized heds is that attrition of the catalyst can cause the generation of catalyst flnes, which are then carried over from the hed and lost from the system. This carryover of catalyst flnes sometimes necessitates cooling the reactor effluent through direct-contact heat transfer hy mixing with a cold fluid, since the fines tend to foul conventional heat exchangers. 

Thus, for a given exchanger duty and overall heat transfer coefficient, the 1-2 design needs a larger area than the 1-1 design. However, the 1-2 design offers many practical advantages. These... 

Hgura 7.10 A large overall temperature cross requires shells in series to reduce the cross in individual exchangers. (From Ahmad, Linnhoff, and Smith, Trans. ASME, J. Heat Transfer, 110 304, 1988 reproduced by permission of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers.)... 

Total heat transfer area is assumed to be divided equally between exchangers. This tends to overestimate the capital cost. 

Use heat transfer equipment which requires a low inventory, such as plate heat exchangers. 

The reactor effluent might require cooling by direct heat transfer because the reaction needs to be stopped quickly, or a conventional exchanger would foul, or the reactor products are too hot or corrosive to pass to a conventional heat exchanger. The reactor product is mixed with a liquid that can be recycled, cooled product, or an inert material such as water. The liquid vaporizes partially or totally and cools the reactor effluent. Here, the reactor Teed is a cold stream, and the vapor and any liquid from the quench are hot streams. 

Having decided that no exchanger should have a temperature difference smaller than ATmi, two rules were deduced. If the energy target set by the composite curves (or the problem table algorithm) is to be achieved, there must be no heat transfer across the pinch by... 

Following the pinch rules, there should be no heat transfer across either the process pinch or the utility pinch by process-to-process heat exchange. Also, there must be no use of inappropriate utilities. This means that above the utility pinch in Fig. 16.17a, high-pressure steam should be used and no low-pressure steam or cooling water. Between the utility pinch and the process pinch, low-pressure steam should be used and no high-pressure steam or cooling water. Below the process pinch in Fig. 16.17, only cooling water should be used. The appropriate utility streams have been included with the process streams in Fig. 16.17a. 

Thus loops, utility paths, and stream splits offer the degrees of freedom for manipulating the network cost. The problem is one of multivariable nonlinear optimization. The constraints are only those of feasible heat transfer positive temperature difference and nonnegative heat duty for each exchanger. Furthermore, if stream splits exist, then positive bremch flow rates are additional constraints. 

While a superstructure based on the structure in Fig. 16.26 allows for many structural options, it is not comprehensive. Wood, Wilcox, and Grossmanr showed how direct contact heat transfer by mixing at unequal temperatures can be used to decrease the number of units in a heat exchanger network. Floudas, Ciric, and Grossman showed how such features can be included in a heat exchanger network superstructure. Figure 16.27 shows the structure from Fig. 16.26 with possibilities for direct contact heat transfer included. In the... 

The relationship between heat exchanger area and overall heat transfer coefficient U is given by... 

Hydrate formation is possible only at temperatures less than 35°C when the pressure is less than 100 bar. Hydrates are a nuisance they are capable of plugging (partially or totally) equipment in transport systems such as pipelines, filters, and valves they can accumulate in heat exchangers and reduce heat transfer as well as increase pressure drop. Finally, if deposited in rotating machinery, they can lead to rotor imbalance generating vibration and causing failure of the machine. 

In the refinery the salts deposit in the tubes of exchangers and reduce heat transfer, while in heater tubes, hot spots are created favoring coke formation. 

Thennal equilibrium means free transfer (exchange) of energy in the fonn of heat, mechanical (liydrostatic) equilibrium means free transfer of energy in the fonn of pressure-volume work, and material equilibrium means free transfer... 

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