Overview
Heat exchangers are used for a variety of different processes - heating, cooling, condensing, evaporating, recirculating, and heat recovery. When you mention a heat exchanger, many people think only of a shell and tube type exchanger. However, there are several heat exchanger technologies, in addition to the old reliable shell and tube exchanger. This course will cover the wide variety of heat exchangers that are commercially available and the types of processes where each is typically used.
The course author, who has over 40 years of experience designing heat exchangers for process applications, provides a wealth of information and "been there, done that" experience.
This course is provided in two forms for your convenience. The course may be studied as a “podcast” or audio presentation. The included audio files can be downloaded to your iPod or other personal mp3 player or they can be streamed using your computer’s default audio player (such as Windows Media Player). A written transcription is also provided should you wish to read the material.
To receive PDH credit, the user must pass a multiple-choice quiz of 15 questions after listening to the audio files or reading the transcription of the course.
Specific Knowledge or Skill Obtained
This course teaches the following specific knowledge and skills:
- Shell and tube heat exchanger characteristics
- Applications for shell and tube exchangers, including simple heat recovery and multi-stage heat recovery
- Shell and tube physical design characteristics, including shell modifications, tube fabrication methods and material selection, and configurations for connecting piping
- Tube side and shell side pressure drop
- Two phase flow in heat exchangers
- Selecting the number of tubes in an exchanger
- Carbon-graphite exchangers
- Spiral tube and spiral plate exchangers
- Advantages and disadvantages of plate type heat exchangers
- Typical applications for plate heat exchangers
- Issues with gasketing on plate heat exchangers
- Plate exchanger material selection
- Impact of high solids content on plate exchangers
- Surface turbulence "h" effect in plate exchangers
- Scraped surface exchangers, non-contact exchangers and "drowning"
- Batch vs. continuous service for heat exchangers
- Special metal linings for corrosive service
- Embossed plate exchangers
- Pinch technology
- Solids heat exchangers
Course
Click on the links below to hear the audio for the course Heat Exchanger Applications prior to taking the quiz for PDH credit.
Audio
Heat Exchanger Applications - Audio File 1
Heat Exchanger Applications - Audio File 2
Heat Exchanger Applications - Audio File 3
Heat Exchanger Applications - Audio File 4
Here is a link to some reference material that has been provided by the author.
Heat Exchanger Applications Handout
Text-based
In lieu of listening to the audio version, you can download a PDF of the transcript for this course below. Also, audio users may want to refer to the course transcript when answering the quiz questions.
Heat Exchanger Applications - Transcript of Audio Course
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