Correction Factor for Shell and Tube Heat Exchanger

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Consider a shell and tube heat exchanger (1 shell 2 tube Tubular Exchanger Manufacturers Association TEMA E). For this flow arrangement, a correction factor must be used with the equation

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where and are the overall heat transfer coefficient and the area of the heat exchanger, respectively, and is the logarithmic mean temperature difference defined by:

,

where and .

Use the sliders to set the inlet and outlet temperatures of the hot fluid ( and ) and cold fluid ( and ). The corrected logarithmic mean temperature difference is .

This Demonstration computes the following ratios:

,

and the corresponding correction factor , which is given by:

,

where

and

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Here, take (1 shell pass). If , use this equation:

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with

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The green dot in the graph indicates the position in the - plane corresponding to your choice of the hot fluid ( and ) and cold fluid ( and ) temperatures. The red curves correspond to the values of (between 0.2 and 4.0) commonly reported in the LMTD correction factor charts.

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Contributed by: Housam Binous, Reyad A. Shawabkeh and Ahmed Bellagi (January 2017)
Open content licensed under CC BY-NC-SA


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[1] "LMTD Correction Factor Charts." Chemical Engineer's Guide. (Jan 12, 2017) cheguide.com/tag/lmtd-correction-factor.



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