75
Heat Exchanger Thermohydraulic Fundamentals
In an
El-?
overall counterflow arrangement, two tube passes are in counterflow and one
tube pass is in parallel flow, whereas in an
E,.3
overall parallel flow arrangement, two tube
passes are
in
parallel flow and one tube pass is in counterflow. Similarly,
in
an
E,
overall
counterflow arrangement, three tube passes are in counterflow and two tube passes are
in
parallel flow. The flow arrangement for
El-3
was already shown in Fig 27 and for is shown
in Fig. 30. Pignotti and Tamborenea [32] obtained an analytical solution for the
1-N
(odd
N)
case and obtained effectiveness for the 1-3 and 1-5. Explicit thermal relations are given by
Pignotti
[
181
for
E,.?
parallel flow and counterflow cases.
For
N=
3.
Thermal effectiveness formulas for
E,.?
parallel flow arrangement are given
by Eq. T16 and for
E,-3
counterflow arrangement by
Eq.
T17
in Table 7. The thermal effective-
ness chart for
E,.?
counterflow arrangement is given in Fig. 3
1.
For
N=
5.
For the overall counterflow arrangement or opposite end case, the thermal
effectiveness is given by Eq.
T18
in Table
8
and the thermal effectiveness chart is given in
Fig. 32.
For the overall parallel flow arrangement or same end case, the configuration can be
obtained from that of the opposite end case (T18) by just the inversion of the direction of flow
of the tube fluid, which leads to the expression [32]:
P,
=(I
-xT>
(70)
with
TEMA
F Shell
For the
TEMA
F
shell, as is usual with two tube passes, the arrangement results in pure
counterflow with
F
=
1.
For four tube passes, the configuration would be treated as two
El.:
exchangers in series.
As
the longitudinal baffle is exposed on one side to the hot stream and
on the other side to the cold stream, there is a conduction heat exchange that reduces the
thermal effectiveness and hence the
F
factor has to be corrected. The effect of thermal leakage
by conduction across the baffle has been analyzed by Whistler [33] and in nondimensional
form by Rozenman and Taborek [34], with proposed baffle correction methods. The baffle
correction factor based on Ref. 34 is presented in Ref.
35.
I
Figure
30
Flow arrangement
of
E
shell with one shell pass and five tube passes
(E,J.
(a) Parallel
flow;
(b) counterflow.