Estimation of pressure drop in gasket plate heat exchangers

CATEGORY: HEAT EXCHANGERS
Estimation of pressure drop in gasket plate heat exchangers

Type	Journal Article
Author	Anisoara Arleziana Neagu
Author	Claudia Irina Koncsag
URL	Free Full Text Source:  http://www.degruyter.com/view/j/auoc.2016.27.issue-1/auoc-2016-0011/auoc-2016-0011.xml
Volume	27
Issue	1
Pages	62–72
Publication	Ovidius University Annals of Chemistry
Date	2016
Abstract	Authors present comparatively different methods of pressure drop calculation in the gasket plate heat exchangers (PHEs), using correlations recommended in literature on industrial data collected from a vegetable oil refinery. The goal of this study was to compare the results obtained with these correlations, in order to choose one or two for practical purpose of pumping power calculations. They concluded that pressure drop values calculated with Mulley relationship and Buonopane & Troupe correlation were close and also Bond’s equation gave results pretty close to these but the pressure drop is slightly underestimated. Kumar correlation gave results far from all the others and its application will lead to oversize. In conclusion, for further calculations they will choose either the Mulley relationship or the Buonopane & Troupe correlation.