Design and Development of Shell & Tube Heat Exchanger for Beverage
- 1 Department of Mechanical Engineering, M. E. Society’s College of Engineering, Pune, India
- 2 Department of Mechanical Engineering, M. E. Society’s College of Engineering, Pune, India
- 3 Department of Mechanical Engineering, M. E. Society’s College of Engineering, Pune, India
- 4 Department of Mechanical Engineering, M. E. Society’s College of Engineering, Pune, India
- 5 Dy. Manager, PEM Design (R&D), Alfa Laval (India) Ltd., Pune, India
Abstract
In the first part of this paper, a simplified approach to design a Shell & Tube Heat Exchanger [STHE] for beverage and process industry application is presented. The design of STHE includes thermal design and mechanical design. The thermal design of STHE involves evaluation of required effective surface area ( i.e. number of tubes) and finding out log mean temperature difference [LMTD]. Whereas, the mechanical design includes the design of main shell under internal & external pressure, tube design, baffles design gasket, etc. The design was carried out by referring ASME/TEMA standards, available at the company. The complete design, fabrication, testing and analysis work was carried out at Alfa Laval (India), Ltd., Pune-12. In the second part of this paper detail view of design optimization is presented by flow induced vibration analysis [FVA].
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