Monday, December 2, 2013

Validation of the method for determination of the thermal resistance of fouling in shell and tube heat exchangers

CATEGORY: FOULING
Energy Conversion and Management, Volume 76, December 2013, Pages 307–313
Validation of the method for determination of the thermal resistance of fouling in shell and tube heat exchangers
Mariusz Markowski, Marian Trafczynski, Krzysztof Urbaniec
Department of Process Equipment, Plock Campus of Warsaw University of Technology, al. Jachowicza 2/4, 09-402 Plock, Poland
Abstract
Authors present an innovative method for on-line monitoring of the thermal resistance of fouling in shell and tube heat exchangers. It can be applied under the condition that the data on pressure, temperature, mass flow rate and thermophysical properties of both heat-exchanging media are continuously available.
The method employs a robust algorithm which ensures reliable determination of the thermal resistance of fouling even when the operating parameters fluctuate. Researchers validated the method using measurement data from the operation records of a heat exchanger network connected with a crude distillation unit rated 800 t/h.
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