Heat Exchangers

COURSE LAYOUT

Week 1  : Background, Application, Classification, Common terminologies.
Week 2  : Introduction to Thermal and hydraulic aspects, pressure drop and heat transfer, sizing and rating. F-LMTD and -NTU method.
Week 3  : Tubular Heat Exchangers: different designs, brief description of Shell and Tube Heat Exchangers, Special types.
Week 4  : Compact heat exchangers, enhancement of heat transfer, extended surface or Fin, fundamental of extended surface heat transfer, Fin tube heat
exchanger.
Week 5  : Plate Fin Heat Exchangers (PFHE), types, construction, fabrication, design, application. Multistream PFHE.
Week 6  : Multistream PFHE continued. Direct contact heat exchangers, types, application, simple analysis.
Week 7  : Regenerators, types of regenerators, construction, application. Theory of Regenerator, -NTU and - method..
Week 8  : Heat pipes, construction, working principle, application, analysis. Special heat pipes.
Week 9  : Microscale Heat Exchangers and heat sinks; heat transfer and fluid flow through narrow conduits, special design considerations
Week 10  :  Phase change HEX; phase change heat transfer, introduction to evaporators and condensers.
Week 11  :  Phase change HEX; phase change heat transfer, introduction to evaporators and condensers.
Week 12  :  Heat Exchanger testing, steady state and dynamic methods.