Heat Exchanger Design Skill

Purpose

The Heat Exchanger Design skill provides comprehensive capabilities for sizing, rating, and optimizing heat exchangers according to TEMA standards, enabling systematic thermal-hydraulic design of shell-and-tube, plate, and air-cooled heat exchanger configurations.

Capabilities

• Shell-and-tube heat exchanger design and rating
• Plate heat exchanger sizing
• Air-cooled heat exchanger configuration
• LMTD and effectiveness-NTU methods
• Fouling factor consideration
• Pressure drop calculations
• HTRI Xchanger Suite integration
• Thermal-hydraulic optimization

Usage Guidelines