Influence of a Finite Number of Baffles on Shell-and-Tube Heat Exchanger Performance
作者:
R. K. SHAH,
A. PIGNOTTI,
期刊:
Heat Transfer Engineering
(Taylor Available online 1997)
卷期:
Volume 18,
issue 1
页码: 82-94
ISSN:0145-7632
年代: 1997
DOI:10.1080/01457639708939891
出版商: Taylor & Francis Group
数据来源: Taylor
摘要:
In single-phase shell-and-tube heat exchangers, thermal performance prediction is customarily accomplished with an idealization that the number of baffles used is very large and can be assumed to approach infinity. Under this idealization, the temperature change within each baffle compartment is very small in comparison with the total temperature change of the shell fluid through the heat exchanger. Thus the shell fluid can be considered as uniform (perfectly mixed) at every cross section (in a direction normal to the shell axis). It is with this model that the mean temperature difference correction factor is normally derived for single-phase exchangers. In reality, a finite number of baffles are used, and the condition stated above can be achieved only partially. In this article, a comprehensive review is made and new results are derived where needed to assess the influence of a finite number of baffles on heat transfer performance for 1-1, 1-2, and 1-N TEMA E, 1-2 TEMA J, and 1-2 TEMA G and H single-phase shell-and-tube exchangers. It is shown that the number of baffles required to achieve the performance within about 2% of an exchanger with an infinite number of baffles varies with the type of exchanger and the performance parameters. The new results are presented in tabular form.
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