Heat Exchange Design

What is use of Reynolds number in designing of Heat exchange?

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neha

  • Apr 20th, 2016
 

Reylonds no. is a parameter which determine the nature of flow of fluid (laminar or turbulent). In heat exchanger design we need to know the Re no. for both tube and shell side in order to determine the heat transfer coefficient from Sieder Tate eq. for tube side and Donohue eq. for shell side.

ALOK KUMAR BHARTI

  • Feb 7th, 2017
 

In heat exchanger, reynolds no. is used only to calculate heat transfer coefficient.

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Akhtar

  • Feb 28th, 2017
 

By knowing Re number, we can calculate Heat transfer area, overall heat transfer coefficient, tube arrangement like square or triangular pitch based on fluid.

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D.S.

  • Apr 17th, 2017
 

The Reynolds number is first used to understand what flow regime (i.e. turbulent, transition zone, laminar). It is then used to calculate the shell-side and tube-side film coefficients which are then used to calculate an overall U.

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Dhruv

  • Jul 17th, 2017
 

Use for determination of Shell side and tube side heat transfer coefficient, pressure drop, selection of tube side and shell side process fluid,

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