Course Learning Outcomes
The students will gain
- Ability to distinguish common heat exchanger types.
- Ability to apply knowledge of advantages and limitations of common heat exchanger types in type synthesis.
- Ability to find properties of fluids from tables and evaluate them at the right conditions.
- Ability to find appropriate heat transfer coefficient (h) correlations and use them in the design.
- Ability to find appropriate friction coefficient correlations and use them in the design.
- Ability to calculate heat transfer rate and pressure drop using h and pressure drop.
- Ability to use heat transfer correlations in overall heat transfer coefficient calculations.
- Ability to determine heat transfer area requirement for a given set of design requirements.
- Ability to rate the performance of a given heat exchanger.
- Ability to perform sizing and rating of heat exchangers for complicated designs.
- Ability to recognize importance of fouling.
- Ability to estimate fouling rates according to design conditions. Ability to incorporate assessed fouling rates into the design.
- Ability to distinguish different types of fouling and to decide how to clean them up.
- Ability to size hair-pins and arrange them as modules.
- Ability to select appropriate TEMA standard shell-and-tube design and to size this selected design according to user requirements.
- Ability to size gasketed plate heat exchangers and to select appropriate size pump by knowing the stringent pressure drop constraints.
- Ability to design compact heat exchangers especially for the cases where heat transfer area to volume ratio should be very high.
- Ability to extend knowledge to handle innovative applications.
- Ability to consider cost and environmental issues in design of heat exchangers.