Design of Heat Exchanger
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The official GTU curriculum for Design of Heat Exchanger (subject code 2731105) as prescribed for M(&A · Semester 3 divides the course into 7 units, covering 39 listed topics. The unit-wise breakdown below is read from the GTU syllabus document for this subject code, so you can check what the course actually covers before deciding which papers to attempt.
Download the official syllabus PDF (2731105)Unit 1 Basic design methodologies
- Classification of heat exchanger
- selection of heat exchanger
- Thermal-Hydraulic fundamentals
- Overall heat transfer coefficient
- LMTD method for heat exchanger analysis for parallel
- multipass and cross flow heat exchanger
- e-NTU method for heat exchanger analysis
- Rating and sizing problems
- heat exchanger design methodology
Unit 2 Fouling of heat exchangers
- Basic consideration
- effect of fouling on heat transfer and pressure drop
- cost of fouling
- design of heat exchangers subject to fouling
- fouling resistance
- cleanliness factor
- techniques to control fouling
Unit 3 Design of double pipe heat exchangers
- Thermal and Hydraulic design of inner tube and annulus
- hairpin heat exchanger with bare and finned inner tube
- total pressure drop
Unit 4 Design of Shell & tube heat exchangers
- Basic components
- basic design procedure of heat exchanger
- TEMA code
- conventional design methods
- Bell-Delaware method
Unit 5 Design of compact heat exchangers
- Heat transfer enhancement
- plate fin heat exchanger
- tube fin heat exchanger
- heat transfer and pressure drop
Unit 6 Condensers and evaporators
- Condenser: Shell and tube condenser
- plate condenser
- air cooled condenser
- direct contact condenser
- condenser for refrigeration and air-conditioning
- thermal design of shell and tube condenser Evaporator: Evaporator for refrigeration and air-conditioning
- thermal analysis of evaporator
- standards for evaporators and condensers
Unit 7 Heat transfer enhancement and performance evaluation
- Enhancement of heat transfer
- Performance evaluation of Heat Transfer Enhancement technique
- Introduction to pinch analysis
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