A multi-tube, spirally-wound, cryogenic heat exchanger, the main heat exchanger (MHE) is the principal piece of heat-transfer equipment in mixed-refrigerant liquefaction cycles for producing liquefied natural gas (LNG). An MHE unit operation model called the spirally-wound tube-bundle module was developed as an integral component of the dynamic simulation capabilities for a process modeling pac...

Possibility to use a neural network predictive control (NNPC) strategy for control of a heat exchanger is studied. The heat exchanger is a tubular one and it is used for preheating of petroleum by hot water. The control objective is to keep the output temperature of the heated stream at a desired value and minimize the energy consumption. The advantage of the NNPC is that it is not a linear-mod...

The paper is devoted to advanced control of a tubular heat exchanger with focus to energy savings. The controlled tubular heat exchanger (HE) was used for petroleum pre-heating by hot water. The controlled output was the measured temperature of the petroleum in the output stream and the control input was the volumetric flow rate of hot water. Two advanced control strategies were investigated in...

heat exchangers are the critical components of refrigeration and liquefaction processes. selection of appropriate operational conditions for cryogenic recuperative heat exchanger and expansion valve operating in joule-thomson cooling system results in improving the performance and efficiency. in the current study, a straightforward procedure is introduced to design an efficient joule-thomson co...

Three kinds of fractal solutions of model of chemical reactors are presented. The first kind concerns the structure of Feigenbaum_s diagram on the limit of chaos. The second kind and the third one concern the effect of initial conditions on the dynamic solutions of models. In the course of computations two types of recirculation were considered, viz. the recirculation of mass (return of a part ...

in the presented research, heat transfer of a mobile electrolyte alkaline fuel cell (afc) (which the electrolyte has cooling role of system) has been considered. proper control volumes of system with specific qualification have been chosen. consequently, heat and mass transfer in control volumes have been assessed. considerations on them and contributed models lead to approve a double tube heat...

The exergetic analysis is a tool that has been used successfully in many studies aiming a more rational energy consumption to reduce the cost of processes. With this analysis, it is possible to perform an evaluation of the overall process, locating and quantifying the degradation of exergy. This paper applies exergy approach for analyzing the heat exchanger network design and refrigeration of M...

Experimental investigations has been done to find out the heat transfer characteristics and friction factor of water based Al2O3 nanofluids as a coolant in  brazed plate heat exchanger. Plate heat exchanger either use horizontally or vertically. The base plate of the plate heat exchanger was kept inclined at (0⁰, 30⁰ ,60⁰, 90⁰). The experimentation have been done on the two different concentrat...

Improving energy efficiency is probably the most generic issue for the process industry today, and process integration is a common tool to successfully achieve this. However, an increased level of process integration, usually implemented by re-circulation and other physical feedback structures, can increase the complexity of the dynamics drastically. This, in turn, implies increased control dif...

Single staggered is a design development of normal wire and tube heat exchanger that wires are welded with staggered configuration on two sides. Capacity of wire and tube heat exchanger is the ability of the heat exchanger to release heat. The objective of this study is to analyse the effect of wire pitch (pw) on capacity of single staggered wire and tube heat exchanger. The research...