Rao, KR and Shrinivasa, U and Srinivasan, J (1996) Constrained optimization of heat exchangers. In: Chemical Engineering, 103 (6). pp. 112-118.
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Optimizing a shell and tube heat exchanger for a given duty is an important and relatively difficult task. There is a need for a simple, general and reliable method for realizing this task. The authors present here one such method for optimizing single phase shell-and-tube heat exchangers with given geometric and thermohydraulic constraints. They discuss the problem in detail. Then they introduce a basic algorithm for optimizing the exchanger. This algorithm is based on data from an earlier study of a large collection of feasible designs generated for different process specifications. The algorithm ensures a near-optimal design satisfying the given heat duty and geometric constraints. The authors also provide several sub-algorithms to satisfy imposed velocity limitations. They illustrate how useful these sub-algorithms are with several examples where the exchanger weight is minimized.
| Item Type: | Journal Article |
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| Publication: | Chemical Engineering |
| Publisher: | Chemical week associates |
| Additional Information: | Copyright of this article belongs to Chemical week associates. |
| Department/Centre: | Division of Mechanical Sciences > Mechanical Engineering |
| Date Deposited: | 21 Apr 2011 09:38 |
| Last Modified: | 26 Oct 2018 07:39 |
| URI: | http://eprints.iisc.ac.in/id/eprint/37090 |
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