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Temperature Efficiency in Design Webinar

Baseline Case (Slide 5)

Modified Case Obtain WMTD (Slide 17)

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Thermally Unmixed Shellside Flow (Slide 27)

Partial Thermally Unmixed Flow (Slide 29)

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Unbalanced Pass Example Three Tubepasses (Slide 32)

Unbalanced Pass Example Moved Pass Lane (Slide 34)

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Using Xist to Obtain WMTD

1 Record the EMTD for the original design

Comparison of E - Examples

Make the following adjustments to the Geometry in Xist Select Rating mode Use the Flow rates and terminal temperatures from the case you are updating Change the Shell Geometry to TEMA type BEM Change the number of Tubepasses to 1 Ensure the Flow Direction is specified as Countercurrent Select Rod for the baffle Type

Run the case. The EMTD on the output summary is the value for WMTD.

Calculate the temperature profile efficiency for the existing design. (This value will be between 0 and 1.) E = EMTD / WMTD = 8.6/19.3 = 0.45

Rules of Thumb
E > 0.80 is acceptable, E < 0.70 requires investigation Options for improving E without changing the process 1. Heat Exchanger Shells Flow Geometry/Shell Pass 2. Baffle Geometry Thermally Unmixed Flow 3. Bundle Pass Geometry Unbalanced Passes
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Nomenclature Variable AMTD CMTD E EMTD F i LMTD LMTDi MTD n Q Qi Qtotal Tin tin Tout tout Uop WMTD Description Arithmetic mean temperature difference Corrected mean temperature difference Temperature profile efficiency Effective mean temperature difference MTD correction factor (Ratio of the true mean temperature difference) Increment Log mean temperature difference Log mean temperature difference for increment i Mean temperature difference Number of increments Heat duty Heat duty for increment i Total calculated duty Inlet temperature hot stream Inlet temperature cold stream Outlet temperature hot stream Outlet temperature cold stream Operating heat transfer coefficient Weighted mean temperature difference SI Units C C C C C C W W W C C C C W/m2 K C

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