Design and Development of Shell and Tube Heat Exchanger for Harar Brewery Company Pasteurizer Application (Mechanical and Thermal Design)

摘要

A heat exchanger is a device that is used to transfer thermal energy (enthalpy) between two or more fluids, between a solid surface and a fluid, or between solid particulates and a fluid, at different temperatures and in thermal contact[1].From different types of heat exchangers the shell and tube heat exchangers with straight tubes and single pass is to be under study. Here the redesign takes place because of temperature fluctuation at the 9 th zone of the pasteurizer in the Harar Brewery Company. Thermal and mechanical design is run in order to optimize the output temperature of the cold fluid at the last heat exchanger in which it is sprayed on the beer ready for customer use. In thermal design part geometry optimization is done through trial and error. And for Mechanical design part the natural frequency& vortex shedding of different components of heat exchangers are investigated through governing equations of vibrations under dynamic fluid with in tubes. Using computational fluid dynamics (CFD) the heat transfer of the two fluid is investigated using FEM simulation software's Gambit1.3 and Fluent 6.1and the performance of the STHEx determined in terms of variables such as pressure, temperature, flow rate, energy input/output, mass flow rate and mass transfer rate that are of particular interest in STHEx analysis