Heat Exchangers: Fundamentals and Design Analysis

Prasanta Kumar Das is a Professor of Mechanical Engineering and presently the Dean Post Graduate Studies and Research at IIT Kharagpur. He possesses a vast experience in teaching and research. His research interests lie in the broad area of thermal engineering with a special emphasis on two phase flow. Apart from teaching many fundamental subjects he offered applied courses like Power Plant Engineering, Thermal System Design, Waste Heat Recovery etc. He has also conducted tailor-made courses for industries. He contributed actively in sponsored research and offered consultancy to different Government and private industries. He contributed more than 190 publications in international journals, a vast number of publications in national and international conferences and 10 patents. He has supervised more than 20 scholars for their doctoral degree. He is fellows of Indian National Academy of Engineering and National Academy of Sciences India.




 Indranil Ghosh received his B. Sc. and M. Sc. in Physics from Jadavpur University in 1990 and 1992 respectively, M.Tech and Ph.D. from the Cryogenic Engineering Centre, Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur in 1995 and 2005 respectively. With the experience of being an engineer, R&D of Bharat Heavy Plates and Vessel Ltd., Visakhapatnam and Post-Doctoral researcher in Hydrogen Research Institute, University of Quebec at Trois Rivieres, he joined Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur as an Assistant Professor in 2006. His research interests include heat transfer in cryogenic systems, heat transfer in metal foam, compact heat exchangers, sorption cooling techniques etc. He has carried out some sponsored projects (on-going) with MHRD and CSIR. He has published 22 research papers in peer reviewed international journals, 15 papers in national and international conferences.

COURSE LAYOUT:

Week 1  :  Background, Application, Classification, Common terminologies.
Week 2  :    Introduction to Thermal and hydraulic aspects, pressure drop and heat transfer, sizing and rating. F-LMTD and -NTU method.
Week 3  : Tubular Heat Exchangers: different designs, brief description of Shell and Tube Heat Exchangers, Special types.
Week 4  :  Compact heat exchangers, enhancement of heat transfer, extended surface or Fin, fundamental of extended surface heat transfer, Fin tube heat exchanger.
Week 5  :  Plate Fin Heat Exchangers (PFHE), types, construction, fabrication, design, application. Multistream PFHE.
Week 6  :  Multistream PFHE continued. Direct contact heat exchangers, types, application, simple analysis.
Week 7  : Regenerators, types of regenerators, construction, application. Theory of Regenerator, -NTU and - method..
Week 8  :  Heat pipes, construction, working principle, application, analysis. Special heat pipes.
Week 9  :  Microscale Heat Exchangers and heat sinks; heat transfer and fluid flow through narrow conduits, special design considerations
Week 10  :  Phase change HEX; phase change heat transfer, introduction to evaporators and condensers.
Week 11  :  Phase change HEX; phase change heat transfer, introduction to evaporators and condensers.
Week 12  :  Heat Exchanger testing, steady state and dynamic methods.

SUGGESTED READING MATERIALS:

1) Fundamentals of Heat Exchanger Design by R. K. Shah, Dusan P. Sekulic, John Wiley & Sons, 11-Aug-2003.
(2) Heat Exchanger Design Handbook by Kuppan Thulukkanam, Taylor & Francis, 23-Feb-2000.
(3) Heat Exchangers: Selection, Rating, and Thermal Design, Third Edition by Sadik Kakac, Hongtan Liu, CRC-Press, 01-Feb-1998.
(4) Cryogenic Heat Transfer, Second Edition by Randall F. Barron, Gregory F. Nellis, CRC Press, May 23, 2016.