Thermal design, rating, TEMA selection and using plant data to track fouling and plan cleaning
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Process and mechanical engineers specifying, rating or troubleshooting shell-and-tube, air-cooled and plate exchangers; energy and reliability engineers
Exchangers are specified once and then blamed for the next twenty years. This course covers enough thermal design to write a good data sheet and check a vendor's rating — LMTD, effectiveness, film coefficients, pressure drop, vibration — then turns to the operating question: how to calculate the fouling resistance from historian data, when to clean, and what the process can do to slow it down.
Heat-transfer basics: LMTD, F factor, NTU-effectiveness · film coefficients and controlling resistance · shell-and-tube geometry and TEMA types · air-cooled exchangers and plate exchangers · process data sheet content · rating exercise and vendor design review (API 660 / 661)
Fouling mechanisms: crude preheat, cooling water, crystallisation, coking · calculating U and Rf from historian data · fouling-monitoring trends and cleaning-interval economics · mitigation: velocity, temperature, chemistry, design features · troubleshooting cases: cross, vibration, maldistribution, leaks · workshop on participants' exchangers
TEMAAPI 660API 661ASME BPVC Section VIIIHTRI / HTFS design practiceSend a short brief — plant, service of interest and what you need to achieve — and a Cerasus engineer will respond with a proposed scope and next steps.
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