heat exchanger

general information

experiments:

flooding point

fluid flow

heat exchange

membrane separation

reverse osmosis

air drying

batch and plug flow reactors

distillation

liquid/liquid extraction

plate and frame filtration

Heat Exchanger

Heat exchange is a fundamental and important operation in chemical processing. Control of process conditions is critical to production of on-specification products, efficiently, economically and safely. Understanding the phenomenon of heat transfer and the appropriate application of energy transport theory and its associated empirical relationships is a field that chemical engineers must master.

The heat exchanger is a double-pipe heat exchanger. In the experiment you must investigate the exchanger performance by measuring various operating conditions and:

• determining the heat load on the exchanger,
  
• determining the steam film coefficient from a plot of the overall heat transfer coefficients versus water velocities,
• estimating the exchanger efficiency from the data collected.
  

A .pdf version of the experiment instructions are avalaible for download on Cooper Union's internal server.

heatex.pdf

apparatus.pdf