The floor space of any facility that houses hell-and-tube heat exchangers must be sufficiently large so the
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The floor space of any facility that houses hell-and-tube heat exchangers must be sufficiently large so the tube bundle can be serviced easily. A rule of thumb is that the floor space must be at least 2.5 times the length of the tube bundle so that the bundle can be completely removed from the shell (hence the absolute minimum floor space is twice the tube bundle length) and subsequently cleaned. Repaired, or replaced easily (associated with the extra half bundle length floor space). The room in which the heat exchanger of Problem is to be installed is 8 m long and, therefore, the 4.7-m-long heat exchanger is too large for the facility. Will a shell-and-tube heat exchanger with two shells, one above the other, be sufficiently small to fit into the facility? Each shell has 10 tubes and 8 tube passes.
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Fundamentals of Heat and Mass Transfer
ISBN: 978-0471457282
6th Edition
Authors: Incropera, Dewitt, Bergman, Lavine