An air cooled heat exchanger, or ACHE, is simply a pressure vessel which cools a circulating fluid within finned tubes by forcing ambient air over the exterior...
Category - Heat Transfer
Finned tube heat exchangers have tubes with extended outer surface area or fins to enhance the heat transfer rate from the additional area of fins. Finned...
Boilers are basically vessels used for heating the water and converting it to steam, as the name suggests. Boilers vessels generally use an internal heat...
Before the use of cooling towers, rivers, lakes, or other cooling water supplies were required in order to meet cooling needs of power plants.
Cooling towers...
Vapor Compression Refrigeration uses mechanical energy by repeating compression and expansion of coolant fluid to achieve cooling by Joule–Thomson effect. A...
The following example demonstrates how heat exchanger bypass can be effectively used for temperature control for a heat exchanger.
Question
Design a heat...
Problem Statement
Determine the overall heat transfer by conduction per unit area occurring across a furnace wall made of fire clay. Furnace wall has a...
Energy balance calculation is often done for designing a heat exchanger to determine operating parameters for hot and cold fluids such as - inlet / outlet...
Problem Statement
Determine the overall heat transfer coefficient 'U' for heat transfer occurring from superheated steam in a steel pipe to atmosphere, with...
Steady state convective heat transfer on either side of a heat exchanger (hot or cold side) can be expressed with following figure and equation,
The steady...
Heat transfer by convection generally occurs between a fluid and a solid surface and convective heat transfer is accompanied by motion of the fluid. This is...
Following list of thermal conductivity values for metals can be used for heat transfer calculations around different applications.
Metal
Thermal...