Heat Exchangers: Fundamentals and Design Analysis
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.
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.
