Heat Exchangers Fundamentals and Design Analysis

Introduction to Thermal and hydraulic aspects, pressure drop and heat transfer, sizing and rating. F-LMTD and -NTU method.

Tubular Heat Exchangers: different designs, brief description of Shell and Tube Heat Exchangers, Special types.

Compact heat exchangers, enhancement of heat transfer, extended surface or Fin, fundamental of extended surface heat transfer, Fin tube heat exchanger

Plate Fin Heat Exchangers (PFHE), types, construction, fabrication, design, application. Multistream PFHE.

Multistream PFHE continued. Direct contact heat exchangers, types, application, simple analysis.

Regenerators, types of regenerators, construction, application. Theory of Regenerator, -NTU and - method.

Heat pipes, construction, working principle, application, analysis. Special heat pipes.

Microscale Heat Exchangers and heat sinks; heat transfer and fluid flow through narrow conduits, special design considerations

Phase change HEX; phase change heat transfer, introduction to evaporators and condensers.

Phase change HEX; phase change heat transfer, introduction to evaporators and condensers.

Heat Exchanger testing, steady state and dynamic methods.