Design and Analysis of a Heat Exchanger Network

This paper deals with the detailed design and analysis of a heat exchanger network. Due to the importance of heat exchanger in chemical and petrochemical industries, analysis of heat exchanger network and heat transfer calculation is preceded. The research aimed at calculating the hot fluid outlet temperature, cold fluid outlet temperature, heat transfer rate and effectiveness at varying hot and cold fluid inlet temperatures using, log mean temperature difference (LMTD) and effectiveness-number of transfer units (ε-NTU) method. The obtained result illustrates how heat transfer rate and effectiveness increases or decreases at varying hot and cold fluid inlet temperatures. The result obtained from both LMTD and å-NTU method gives statistically significant values. The objective of this paper is to find out the optimal temperature at which heat transfer rate and effectiveness are maximum.