Shell-side Stream flow Distribution Analyze of a Shell-tube Heat Exchanger According Hydraulic Network Modeling

In this paper, shell-side stream flow distribution on the shell-side fluid flow of shell-tube heat exchanger by baffle space and baffle cut variation computationally was conducted. Flow distribution plays an important role to obtaining high performance in the effective operation of a shell-tube heat exchanger. Uniform flow distribution is critical to obtaining high performance and without tube vibration in shell-tube heat exchanger devices. Also Stream flow rate is a very useful to understand the heat transfer and pressure drop along a shell-tube heat exchanger with the flow distribution. So the shell-side designs of a shell-tube heat exchanger, in particular the baffle spacing and baffle cut dependencies of the stream flow rate are investigated. In the present article a novel technique base on the proposed method presented to measure the flow rates in different baffle sections. The proposed analysis method used hydraulic network principals for evaluation flow velocity distribution on a shell-tube heat exchanger has been developed. According to obtained results baffle space and baffle cut configuration significantly affect the flow field distribution. window-section flow stream have higher flow rate in the shell-side.