1. Flow-Induced Vibration Problems in Heat Exchangers Including Examples of Failures 2. Overview of Vibration Analysis 3. Example Anti-Vibration Solutions for Heat Exchangers 4. Analysis of Vibration with HTRI Xvib~R. 5. Tube damage from flow-induced vibrations has increased over the past 5 to 10 years, primarily from two main sources: 5.1 Advances in catalyst and control technologies allow operators to increase plant capacity by simply increasing flow through existing process equipment 5.2 New exchanger designs are smaller than in the past, which entails greater shell side velocities 6. Tube failures are always very expensive and lead to lost production, contaminated products, additional energy usage, and/or high repair costs.
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