The paper deals with design and simulation of nonlinear adaptive control of a shell and tube heat exchanger. The method is based on factorization of the controller on a nonlinear static part and an adaptive linear dynamic part. The nonlinear static part is derived using inversion and subsequent exponential approximation of simulated or measured steady-state characteristics of the exchanger. The...

Shell and Tube heat exchangers are the heat exchangers that are most widely used in industries and for other commercial purposes. There are many techniques that have been utilized to enhance the heat transfer performance of the shell and tube heat exchangers. Air bubble injection is one of the promising and inexpensive techniques that can create turbulence in the fluids resulting in to enhancem...

An experimental study of heat transfer characteristics with and without insert was found using water –water system on 1-2 pass shell and tube heat exchanger. Experimental results such as exchanger effectiveness, overall heat transfer coefficient were calculated using with and without insert. There is improvement in overall heat coefficient, efficiency in using twisted tape. In all the process i...

This paper presents a simple methodology for cost estimation of a near optimal heat exchanger network, which comprises mixed materials of construction. Intraditional pinch technology and mathematical programming it is usually assumed that all heat exchangers in a network obey a single cost model. This implies that all heat exchangers  in a network are of the same type and use the same mate...

The effect of γ-Al2O3 nanoparticles on heat transfer rate, baffle spacing and pressure drop in the shell side of small shell and tube heat exchangers was investigated numerically under turbulent regime. γ-Al2O3-water nanofluids and pure water were used in the shell side and the tube side of heat exchangers, respectively. Since the properties of γ-Al2O3-water nanofluids were variable, they were ...

in this paper, overall heat transfer coefficient and friction factor of water based γ-al2o3 nanofluid in a double tube counter flow heat exchanger have been measured experimentally under turbulent flow condition. for better dispersion of γ-al2o3 nanoparticles in distilled water, magnetic stirrer and ultrasonic vibrator (with a power of 240 kw and frequency of 35 khz) were implemented. the stabi...