Heat
Exchanger
Inlet/Outlet Temperature Prediction
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| This procedure predicts the thermal behavior of a single heat exchanger or a bank of identical heat exchangers. It can handle "TEMA" shell types (E, F, G, and J) as long as there is no change in phase. | |
| A more comprehensive and powerful version of this procedure is available online through Process Associate's clients gateway (password required). WWW-based and Stand-alone versions of the full program for Windows 3.1x/95/NT and Unix operating systems are available through their coordination office. The full version of this procedure is part of their Process Designer® line of intelligent software. | |
| For your convenience, The input form below has several multiple choice fields {using radio buttons} with one field already selected as default. Please make sure that you always mark the proper button corresponding to your input if it is different from the default. |
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| Cold Fluid | ||
| Flowrate | Mass basis | |
| Volume & density basis | ||
| Heat Capacity | ||
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| Hot Fluid | ||
| Flowrate | Mass basis | |
| Volume & density basis | ||
| Heat Capacity | ||
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| Service | ||
| No. of exchanger trains in parallel | ||
| No. of shells in series per train | ||
| Cold fluid flows in | ||
| TEMA shell type | ||
| Area of a single shell | ||
| No. of tube passes | ||
| Overall heat transfer coefficient (U) | ||
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| Known Temperatures | ||
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