Lecture 24 - Plate fin heat exchanger

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00:00:13.539 00:00:13.549 welcome to this lecture the topic that
00:00:17.859 00:00:17.869 will be discussed today is about the
00:00:21.320 00:00:21.330 plate fin type heat exchangers this
00:00:25.640 00:00:25.650 plate fin type heat exchanger is
00:00:27.230 00:00:27.240 completely new type of exchanger we have
00:00:30.290 00:00:30.300 not discussed in the previous lectures
00:00:34.880 00:00:34.890 as you will be able to understand from
00:00:37.670 00:00:37.680 the I mean following slides so before
00:00:41.920 00:00:41.930 going into the details about the plate
00:00:44.540 00:00:44.550 fin heat exchanger let us look where it
00:00:47.270 00:00:47.280 belongs to in the classification of the
00:00:49.820 00:00:49.830 heat exchangers so according to the
00:00:53.570 00:00:53.580 classification and classification
00:00:56.270 00:00:56.280 according to the construction we find
00:00:58.789 00:00:58.799 that there was a class of exchanger
00:01:01.009 00:01:01.019 where we had the extended surface heat
00:01:05.479 00:01:05.489 transfer there was a class where we had
00:01:10.899 00:01:10.909 heat exchangers with extended heat
00:01:13.370 00:01:13.380 transfer surfaces and one of the
00:01:19.630 00:01:19.640 derivative of this extended surface heat
00:01:22.760 00:01:22.770 transfer is of plate fin type and that's
00:01:27.260 00:01:27.270 what we call it plate fin type heat
00:01:30.770 00:01:30.780 exchanger so if we look into the other
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00:01:40.550 00:01:40.560 find where it exactly it is belonging
00:01:45.800 00:01:45.810 you will find that there is a
00:01:49.359 00:01:49.369 classification based on the surface
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00:01:59.149 00:01:59.159 is the class of exchanger which is
00:02:01.399 00:02:01.409 compact and that compactness is defined
00:02:05.149 00:02:05.159 by a parameter beta which is defined as
00:02:10.160 00:02:10.170 a demarcation is between the compactness
00:02:14.300 00:02:14.310 and non compactness is 700 meter square
00:02:17.210 00:02:17.220 per meter cube this classification has
00:02:21.320 00:02:21.330 been
00:02:22.500 00:02:22.510 mended by producer Artesia in his
00:02:26.220 00:02:26.230 classification of heat exchanges in the
00:02:28.920 00:02:28.930 heat exchangers thermo hydraulic
00:02:30.869 00:02:30.879 fundamental and designed that is the
00:02:32.880 00:02:32.890 book edited by ace Kaka and it all so we
00:02:38.130 00:02:38.140 will be following this nomenclature of
00:02:40.850 00:02:40.860 calling the heat exchanger as compact if
00:02:44.789 00:02:44.799 the compactness factor beta is more than
00:02:48.869 00:02:48.879 700 meter square per meter cube so this
00:02:53.819 00:02:53.829 particular plate fin type of heat
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00:02:58.559 00:02:58.569 it will be more than 400 meter square
00:03:02.339 00:03:02.349 per 700 meters per per meter cube
00:03:04.940 00:03:04.950 particularly this is a gas - fluid heat
00:03:09.720 00:03:09.730 exchanger and in this region compactness
00:03:12.360 00:03:12.370 is defined by 700 meter square per meter
00:03:15.300 00:03:15.310 cube and we will define it as compact
00:03:18.629 00:03:18.639 heat exchanger so if we now look into
00:03:22.800 00:03:22.810 the hydraulic diameter from the
00:03:25.649 00:03:25.659 hydraulic diameter point of view R if we
00:03:28.379 00:03:28.389 look into the basic heat transfer
00:03:30.659 00:03:30.669 equation we find that the heat
00:03:33.030 00:03:33.040 transferred is basically related to the
00:03:35.520 00:03:35.530 overall heat transfer coefficient and
00:03:37.409 00:03:37.419 the delta T and this delta T L M
00:03:42.569 00:03:42.579 basically the log mean temperature
00:03:43.949 00:03:43.959 difference and if we divide both sides
00:03:46.920 00:03:46.930 by the volume of the heat exchanger we
00:03:49.619 00:03:49.629 find that it's giving us Q by V the heat
00:03:53.819 00:03:53.829 transfer per unit volume that can be
00:03:55.949 00:03:55.959 achieved it is a function of the overall
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00:04:02.069 00:04:02.079 that then we have a by P and delta T now
00:04:08.039 00:04:08.049 this a by V the area per unit volume
00:04:10.740 00:04:10.750 that's what is the beta factor that's
00:04:14.520 00:04:14.530 what we are trying to define and then we
00:04:17.339 00:04:17.349 also have the log mean temperature
00:04:18.870 00:04:18.880 difference now this parameter the amount
00:04:23.490 00:04:23.500 of heat that we can the heat load per
00:04:27.839 00:04:27.849 unit delta T is basically we can find
00:04:31.290 00:04:31.300 that it's a function of beta and V
00:04:34.740 00:04:34.750 and also that you so if we have a very
00:04:39.720 00:04:39.730 high beta value we can expect a small
00:04:44.880 00:04:44.890 value of Delta V which will be you know
00:04:48.810 00:04:48.820 if q by delta T is constant is remaining
00:04:52.350 00:04:52.360 constant then for a given q by delta T
00:04:56.370 00:04:56.380 we have you fixed and beta if we have a
00:05:00.360 00:05:00.370 larger value we can expect that a
00:05:02.970 00:05:02.980 smaller volume will be able to give us
00:05:05.970 00:05:05.980 the desired effect so that means the
00:05:09.360 00:05:09.370 heat exchanger can be made compact so if
00:05:13.380 00:05:13.390 we look into that one so far we were
00:05:16.400 00:05:16.410 looking into the tubular exchanger where
00:05:19.950 00:05:19.960 the typical hydraulic diameter is of the
00:05:23.130 00:05:23.140 order of this region where you see this
00:05:26.010 00:05:26.020 is the I mean plane tubular sir and tube
00:05:31.230 00:05:31.240 heat exchanger and on this side the
00:05:34.460 00:05:34.470 louver train our etcetera strip filled
00:05:37.110 00:05:37.120 these are basically the heat exchanger
00:05:39.270 00:05:39.280 plate wind tie feat exchanges and the
00:05:42.210 00:05:42.220 cryogenic heat exchangers are other type
00:05:45.210 00:05:45.220 of matrix and other heat exchangers
00:05:47.130 00:05:47.140 basically belong to that you know
00:05:49.530 00:05:49.540 compact heat exchanger range so
00:05:52.020 00:05:52.030 hydraulic diameter is of the order of
00:05:54.180 00:05:54.190 this is where we have the hydraulic
00:05:56.370 00:05:56.380 diameter and this is where we have the
00:06:00.260 00:06:00.270 surface area density so nearly about 700
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00:06:06.630 00:06:06.640 compactness and the non compact heat
00:06:10.260 00:06:10.270 exchanger so here somewhere here we have
00:06:13.080 00:06:13.090 the that 500 600 700 that's the limiting
00:06:18.540 00:06:18.550 line between the compact and non compact
00:06:21.000 00:06:21.010 heat exchanger so basically this plate
00:06:25.380 00:06:25.390 fin type heat exchanger belong to that
00:06:27.620 00:06:27.630 compact heat exchanger with the typical
00:06:31.020 00:06:31.030 surface area density more than 700 meter
00:06:33.990 00:06:34.000 square per meter cube now if we look
00:06:39.600 00:06:39.610 into the construction of this exchanger
00:06:42.270 00:06:42.280 this is a real-time heat exchanger just
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00:06:48.510 00:06:48.520 looks like we should actually have a
00:06:50.939 00:06:50.949 length scale it's a you can understand
00:06:54.839 00:06:54.849 that this is the length and we have one
00:06:58.170 00:06:58.180 fluid flowing from one end to the other
00:07:00.390 00:07:00.400 end directly from this end to this end
00:07:03.510 00:07:03.520 and another fluid it is entering here it
00:07:07.499 00:07:07.509 has to exit it can come out from this
00:07:10.529 00:07:10.539 end it can also come out from this end
00:07:12.570 00:07:12.580 so it is also I mean this is another I
00:07:17.369 00:07:17.379 mean advantage or you can say the
00:07:20.010 00:07:20.020 characteristics of this plate fin type
00:07:22.140 00:07:22.150 heat exchanger where multiple exit our
00:07:25.820 00:07:25.830 intermediate entry and exit can be
00:07:29.309 00:07:29.319 possible in this type of heat exchanger
00:07:31.890 00:07:31.900 okay so in another picture in a
00:07:37.200 00:07:37.210 pictorial view I will show you here this
00:07:39.870 00:07:39.880 is another plate fin type heat exchanger
00:07:41.850 00:07:41.860 you can see glimpse of the fins these
00:07:45.149 00:07:45.159 are the fins we're sorry we will be
00:07:50.450 00:07:50.460 discussing about this geometry later on
00:07:53.490 00:07:53.500 so this is the cross flow type plate fin
00:07:55.950 00:07:55.960 type heat exchanger where this is made
00:07:58.469 00:07:58.479 of alum bridged aluminium there are two
00:08:01.950 00:08:01.960 terms bridged and aluminium plate fin
00:08:05.189 00:08:05.199 type heat exchanger this is also a plate
00:08:07.559 00:08:07.569 winter heat exchanger which is made of
00:08:09.870 00:08:09.880 aluminium and that aluminium is bridged
00:08:13.649 00:08:13.659 with each other so that it is a special
00:08:17.700 00:08:17.710 type of break phonetics engine which is
00:08:20.820 00:08:20.830 a braised aluminium plate fin heat
00:08:22.980 00:08:22.990 exchanger so we'll talk about this in
00:08:25.920 00:08:25.930 details first of all let us have a look
00:08:29.700 00:08:29.710 into the details of this why we go for
00:08:34.440 00:08:34.450 aluminium why do we go for brazing of it
00:08:37.889 00:08:37.899 so first of all this aluminium is one of
00:08:43.800 00:08:43.810 the I mean good thermal conductivity
00:08:46.590 00:08:46.600 material with light witness I mean this
00:08:50.340 00:08:50.350 kind of exchangers are widely used in
00:08:52.740 00:08:52.750 automobiles or in aircraft so this way
00:08:56.730 00:08:56.740 to strength ratio of this material is
00:08:59.189 00:08:59.199 always and looked after I mean
00:09:01.740 00:09:01.750 is a parameter which you always look for
00:09:04.620 00:09:04.630 and we will understand that the bridging
00:09:08.400 00:09:08.410 is the only option particularly for the
00:09:10.620 00:09:10.630 type of fiends we are going to be join
00:09:12.300 00:09:12.310 in case of a platform type physics near
00:09:15.480 00:09:15.490 we cannot do the regular welding though
00:09:17.670 00:09:17.680 aluminium welding it's possible we
00:09:20.190 00:09:20.200 cannot do the welding of field surfaces
00:09:24.300 00:09:24.310 with the plates manually so we have to
00:09:28.020 00:09:28.030 go for a automatic joining of the plate
00:09:33.870 00:09:33.880 with the fins which we'll be talking
00:09:36.780 00:09:36.790 later on and so this particular
00:09:43.230 00:09:43.240 properties like low I mean high sorry
00:09:48.720 00:09:48.730 the high strength-to-weight ratio this
00:09:52.560 00:09:52.570 weight is small and it's strength is
00:09:54.780 00:09:54.790 high and it's a having moderately good
00:09:58.260 00:09:58.270 thermal conductivity so we go for it and
00:10:01.350 00:10:01.360 also it it's it can be bridged so that's
00:10:04.530 00:10:04.540 another favorable parameter particularly
00:10:08.460 00:10:08.470 we go for the aluminium three thousand
00:10:11.430 00:10:11.440 three 3000 series particularly this is
00:10:14.910 00:10:14.920 the other than any element aluminium
00:10:18.590 00:10:18.600 particularly it is a manganese based and
00:10:23.340 00:10:23.350 it's percentage is about 10 sorry 1 to
00:10:26.550 00:10:26.560 1.5 percentage of manganese it will be
00:10:29.820 00:10:29.830 there and it's the solid as this 643
00:10:33.120 00:10:33.130 degree centigrade so if we have a plate
00:10:36.750 00:10:36.760 and we will be connecting the fins on
00:10:41.130 00:10:41.140 top of it and it is like this will be
00:10:44.520 00:10:44.530 joining this is the kind of fiend we
00:10:47.400 00:10:47.410 will be joining and this is the plate
00:10:51.180 00:10:51.190 material so on top of it we want to have
00:10:55.079 00:10:55.089 a kind of filler material or the I mean
00:10:59.490 00:10:59.500 which is this this is the bridging
00:11:02.670 00:11:02.680 material this bridging material is
00:11:06.050 00:11:06.060 aluminium plus 7 percent silicon so it's
00:11:11.070 00:11:11.080 melting point when as soon as we add
00:11:15.040 00:11:15.050 7% silicon it becomes the five ninety
00:11:18.130 00:11:18.140 degree whereas the solidus of this
00:11:21.670 00:11:21.680 parent material this is six forty three
00:11:25.449 00:11:25.459 degree centigrade so that means this
00:11:28.750 00:11:28.760 filler material will melt fast but this
00:11:33.040 00:11:33.050 parent material will not melt at that
00:11:36.310 00:11:36.320 time but this difference in temperature
00:11:39.160 00:11:39.170 is very small so we can understand that
00:11:43.480 00:11:43.490 we need a very very precise temperature
00:11:48.940 00:11:48.950 fairness I mean fairness the temperature
00:11:51.550 00:11:51.560 control in the furnace is very very
00:11:53.440 00:11:53.450 stringent and we have to maintain the
00:11:56.199 00:11:56.209 temperature of the furnace basically we
00:11:58.090 00:11:58.100 will talk about the manufacturing of
00:11:59.650 00:11:59.660 that bridged aluminium plate phonetics
00:12:02.230 00:12:02.240 we will discuss in details at that time
00:12:05.400 00:12:05.410 so we need to maintain the temperature
00:12:09.579 00:12:09.589 of the furnace so that this parent
00:12:12.880 00:12:12.890 material should not melt I mean it will
00:12:17.560 00:12:17.570 of course ensure a good we need to
00:12:20.319 00:12:20.329 ensure a good bridging between the frame
00:12:23.860 00:12:23.870 and the plate but at the same time we
00:12:27.579 00:12:27.589 also need to ensure that there is no you
00:12:30.730 00:12:30.740 know a kind of hole or formation of any
00:12:34.030 00:12:34.040 leakage so that one fluid which is
00:12:36.460 00:12:36.470 flowing on this side and the fluid
00:12:38.560 00:12:38.570 flowing on this side should not leak and
00:12:40.920 00:12:40.930 that's what we need to ensure so
00:12:46.590 00:12:46.600 generally it is the vacuum bridged it
00:12:49.810 00:12:49.820 these units are made in vacuum brazing
00:12:51.579 00:12:51.589 furnace so we need a very stringent
00:12:55.350 00:12:55.360 temperature requirement for
00:12:57.250 00:12:57.260 manufacturing this kind of heat
00:12:59.050 00:12:59.060 exchangers so we'll come to that part
00:13:01.000 00:13:01.010 later
00:13:02.670 00:13:02.680 so here is the exploded view for a
00:13:07.420 00:13:07.430 particular layer of the plate fin type
00:13:10.810 00:13:10.820 heat exchanger we have one layer of
00:13:15.569 00:13:15.579 primary heat transfer surface area
00:13:18.069 00:13:18.079 basically this is an as I told in the
00:13:21.130 00:13:21.140 initially that this is an extended type
00:13:24.100 00:13:24.110 heat transfer surface so according to
00:13:27.430 00:13:27.440 that classification
00:13:29.110 00:13:29.120 we have a primary heat transfer surface
00:13:31.569 00:13:31.579 area and then this is what's the primary
00:13:34.960 00:13:34.970 heat transfer surface area now we have
00:13:37.540 00:13:37.550 another primary heat transfer surface
00:13:39.369 00:13:39.379 area on this side and between this
00:13:42.489 00:13:42.499 primary heat transfer surface area we
00:13:45.100 00:13:45.110 have the extended heat transfer surface
00:13:47.590 00:13:47.600 area or the field so in between these
00:13:52.119 00:13:52.129 two plates or the primary heat transfer
00:13:55.239 00:13:55.249 surface area we have some fins or
00:13:59.040 00:13:59.050 extended heat transfer surface so now
00:14:02.530 00:14:02.540 the purpose of this fin is and here what
00:14:08.259 00:14:08.269 we have is something called sidebar this
00:14:11.679 00:14:11.689 is what a sidebar on this side also it
00:14:14.980 00:14:14.990 is a sidebar so that means it's
00:14:17.769 00:14:17.779 basically like this that we want to make
00:14:20.829 00:14:20.839 a channel this channel is made of one
00:14:24.970 00:14:24.980 primary surface area another primary
00:14:27.460 00:14:27.470 surface area in between what we have is
00:14:31.230 00:14:31.240 the film this film is serving both the
00:14:37.569 00:14:37.579 purposes of or it has double I mean the
00:14:44.079 00:14:44.089 purpose of this fin is basically to
00:14:47.079 00:14:47.089 provide extra or extended heat transfer
00:14:50.710 00:14:50.720 surface area at the same time it gives a
00:14:54.489 00:14:54.499 mechanical stability or construction
00:15:00.519 00:15:00.529 stability like it gives some strength to
00:15:05.499 00:15:05.509 the construction so that under pressure
00:15:08.829 00:15:08.839 this will not bulge so this mechanical
00:15:13.119 00:15:13.129 stability of this one will also be
00:15:15.540 00:15:15.550 purpose for this one so now you can
00:15:18.160 00:15:18.170 understand that each of this surface is
00:15:21.189 00:15:21.199 to be adhered to this plate and this one
00:15:24.759 00:15:24.769 has to be adhered to this plate to have
00:15:27.100 00:15:27.110 a good thermal joint we need a good
00:15:31.749 00:15:31.759 thermal contact between these two
00:15:33.819 00:15:33.829 otherwise there would be when the heat
00:15:35.710 00:15:35.720 is getting transferred so there would be
00:15:37.780 00:15:37.790 a resistance between this fin and the
00:15:40.030 00:15:40.040 plate so that is not desirable we
00:15:42.670 00:15:42.680 want this fiend to be completely at as
00:15:46.510 00:15:46.520 thermally to this upper surface so we
00:15:49.630 00:15:49.640 need a good bonding between this point
00:15:51.940 00:15:51.950 this point this point and in fact all
00:15:55.420 00:15:55.430 the surfaces should be adhere to this
00:16:00.420 00:16:00.430 primary heat transfer surface area and
00:16:03.570 00:16:03.580 this fins are to be attached so it is
00:16:07.320 00:16:07.330 understandable that it is not possible
00:16:10.380 00:16:10.390 for someone to make physical joint
00:16:14.920 00:16:14.930 because he first of all it will not be
00:16:17.050 00:16:17.060 accessible even if it is not accessible
00:16:19.120 00:16:19.130 even if it is the accessible it is
00:16:21.130 00:16:21.140 impossible to make or ensure that each
00:16:24.460 00:16:24.470 and every point of it is joined with the
00:16:27.280 00:16:27.290 primary surface area now as you can
00:16:31.329 00:16:31.339 understand that we have two primary
00:16:34.150 00:16:34.160 surface area in between we have the
00:16:37.750 00:16:37.760 field and now imagine this is the cross
00:16:42.490 00:16:42.500 sectional area and we have say a fluid
00:16:45.880 00:16:45.890 flowing from this end to the other end
00:16:48.870 00:16:48.880 so we have to ensure that the fluid is
00:16:52.840 00:16:52.850 not spilling over from this side or this
00:16:56.350 00:16:56.360 side it should not go out of this one so
00:17:00.460 00:17:00.470 what we need to do for this purpose that
00:17:03.400 00:17:03.410 we should have a kind of side bar on
00:17:07.809 00:17:07.819 both lines so this will be we will put a
00:17:13.890 00:17:13.900 barricade on this side and another
00:17:17.980 00:17:17.990 barricade on this side so we are
00:17:20.919 00:17:20.929 confining the liquid within this zone
00:17:24.150 00:17:24.160 and this zone is created by this one
00:17:30.070 00:17:30.080 where we have the primary surface area
00:17:32.410 00:17:32.420 and the field and it is bounded by two
00:17:36.490 00:17:36.500 side but so this is the exploded view
00:17:40.510 00:17:40.520 for a particular layer and so we can
00:17:45.100 00:17:45.110 expect that on top of it
00:17:47.650 00:17:47.660 we will put another layer so that will
00:17:50.860 00:17:50.870 form the this is an exploded view of the
00:17:56.300 00:17:56.310 to layer one so here what we have is one
00:18:00.590 00:18:00.600 fluid this is the primary surface area
00:18:02.990 00:18:03.000 this is another primary surface area
00:18:06.280 00:18:06.290 this is these are the primary surface
00:18:08.840 00:18:08.850 areas and we have one fluid flowing from
00:18:13.730 00:18:13.740 this end to this end so these are the
00:18:16.850 00:18:16.860 extended heat transfer surface area fin
00:18:19.340 00:18:19.350 and now imagine we have put on top of it
00:18:24.620 00:18:24.630 another layer where this is the plate
00:18:29.150 00:18:29.160 which is the primary area separating
00:18:31.670 00:18:31.680 this fluid to mix with this fluid this
00:18:34.580 00:18:34.590 fluid is entering from this end and we
00:18:39.230 00:18:39.240 have another separating plate on this
00:18:41.570 00:18:41.580 side so for this fluid this is the side
00:18:46.310 00:18:46.320 bar for this fluid we have this side bar
00:18:50.210 00:18:50.220 and on this side we have another side
00:18:52.730 00:18:52.740 bar so that between this two primary
00:18:57.110 00:18:57.120 surfaces we have fin and two plates two
00:19:02.600 00:19:02.610 sidebars so this is one channel for this
00:19:06.110 00:19:06.120 fluid similarly on the other side what
00:19:09.470 00:19:09.480 we have is this primary surface area and
00:19:13.570 00:19:13.580 then we have this is the primary surface
00:19:18.380 00:19:18.390 area and what we have here is I'm sorry
00:19:24.100 00:19:24.110 this is one surface area then we have
00:19:31.100 00:19:31.110 another surface area here this is the
00:19:33.890 00:19:33.900 confinement this is the side but these
00:19:36.530 00:19:36.540 are the two side bar and these are the
00:19:38.450 00:19:38.460 fins so this whole unit becomes an
00:19:41.540 00:19:41.550 exploded view and this is for this
00:19:44.900 00:19:44.910 particular channel is meant for this
00:19:47.270 00:19:47.280 plate so like this we have this fluid
00:19:51.650 00:19:51.660 getting distributed between several
00:19:54.530 00:19:54.540 layers and this is for if it is this
00:19:57.920 00:19:57.930 layer is designated for this channel and
00:20:00.350 00:20:00.360 the alternative will again be for this
00:20:03.260 00:20:03.270 fluid say if we call it fluid number one
00:20:05.540 00:20:05.550 and this is the fluid two we have
00:20:10.040 00:20:10.050 this channel designated for free to the
00:20:13.250 00:20:13.260 next channel will be designated for the
00:20:15.950 00:20:15.960 fluid one so like that we have this is a
00:20:20.450 00:20:20.460 two fluid stream heat exchanger and as
00:20:23.600 00:20:23.610 you can understand that each fluid flow
00:20:26.450 00:20:26.460 is taking place at 90 degree so it is a
00:20:29.930 00:20:29.940 cross flow arrangement so when we talk
00:20:33.290 00:20:33.300 about the flow arrangement will come in
00:20:35.060 00:20:35.070 details so this is the exploded view
00:20:37.460 00:20:37.470 when like this we make you know a stack
00:20:40.700 00:20:40.710 of the heat exchanger and then we go for
00:20:44.150 00:20:44.160 the complete heat exchanger matrix or
00:20:49.220 00:20:49.230 something like that so here what we have
00:20:53.120 00:20:53.130 is the plate this is the plate
00:20:56.300 00:20:56.310 this is sidebar these are the frame and
00:21:00.440 00:21:00.450 as the name suggests the plate fin comes
00:21:04.790 00:21:04.800 from this nomenclature I mean this no
00:21:07.940 00:21:07.950 ventilation this is fin this is plate
00:21:10.610 00:21:10.620 and as a whole this unit becomes the
00:21:13.790 00:21:13.800 plate fin heat exchanger so this is a
00:21:21.140 00:21:21.150 typical bridged aluminium plate fin heat
00:21:24.020 00:21:24.030 exchanger we can have a look into this
00:21:27.820 00:21:27.830 small video this is a bridged aluminium
00:21:36.620 00:21:36.630 plate fin heat exchanger
00:21:46.240 00:21:46.250 so here as you can understand that this
00:21:50.260 00:21:50.270 is the sidebar we are not able to see
00:21:53.350 00:21:53.360 this particular area so the fins are
00:21:57.610 00:21:57.620 located at this point these are the
00:22:00.070 00:22:00.080 fields so this channel through which the
00:22:04.720 00:22:04.730 fluid is flowing you will find that this
00:22:07.360 00:22:07.370 is blocked at this end and this is
00:22:09.970 00:22:09.980 blocked at this end so that the fluid is
00:22:12.909 00:22:12.919 flowing in this direction so this is
00:22:16.690 00:22:16.700 basically nothing but the rectangular
00:22:19.680 00:22:19.690 Hollow header which is allowing the
00:22:23.409 00:22:23.419 fluid to come on this side and allow the
00:22:26.919 00:22:26.929 fluid to flow through this end and this
00:22:31.680 00:22:31.690 black coloured one whereas that white
00:22:37.810 00:22:37.820 one is basically nothing but the
00:22:42.180 00:22:42.190 sidebars so if we look into the video
00:22:53.190 00:22:53.200 this is the other side we will come to
00:23:01.770 00:23:01.780 we look into this retells so now you see
00:23:05.320 00:23:05.330 this is what is the sidebar and the
00:23:11.740 00:23:11.750 corresponding site on the other end I
00:23:14.409 00:23:14.419 mean just we have come from that into
00:23:17.350 00:23:17.360 this end you find that this is the plate
00:23:22.480 00:23:22.490 or the primary area and with that
00:23:25.690 00:23:25.700 primary area between this two primary
00:23:28.000 00:23:28.010 area we have the fins there adhere to
00:23:32.380 00:23:32.390 each other I mean with the it is
00:23:34.779 00:23:34.789 breached at this point at this point and
00:23:37.799 00:23:37.809 this is particularly this is an oily
00:23:40.990 00:23:41.000 film and here we have a sidebar so this
00:23:47.049 00:23:47.059 is a site but if you look at this end
00:23:49.779 00:23:49.789 for this particular thing this geometry
00:23:53.740 00:23:53.750 this end you have it is not visible at
00:23:56.919 00:23:56.929 this position this end and this
00:23:58.850 00:23:58.860 it is blocked so these are the side
00:24:01.460 00:24:01.470 birds so when the fluid is flowing in
00:24:04.460 00:24:04.470 this direction the fluid will flow this
00:24:07.520 00:24:07.530 channels through these channels through
00:24:10.039 00:24:10.049 this channel this channel it will flow
00:24:11.930 00:24:11.940 through and it will not pass odd mix
00:24:16.010 00:24:16.020 with the sidebar are this is the site
00:24:21.500 00:24:21.510 but this is another sidebar these are
00:24:23.840 00:24:23.850 the side verse and the fluid is not able
00:24:27.980 00:24:27.990 to mix with the fluid flowing on the
00:24:30.740 00:24:30.750 other side through this channel so
00:24:33.140 00:24:33.150 basically this is a again a cross flow
00:24:35.390 00:24:35.400 type heat exchanger where we have both
00:24:39.620 00:24:39.630 the fluids I mean not mixed it is
00:24:42.919 00:24:42.929 unmixed both the fluids unmixed and this
00:24:46.789 00:24:46.799 is basically you can understand that
00:24:49.640 00:24:49.650 this is a slightly longer length than
00:24:54.110 00:24:54.120 this particular one so this is wider
00:24:57.230 00:24:57.240 this is smaller okay so now what are the
00:25:06.620 00:25:06.630 advantage of this particular type of
00:25:08.900 00:25:08.910 heat exchangers the advantage of bridged
00:25:12.950 00:25:12.960 aluminium plate fin heat exchanger as we
00:25:14.900 00:25:14.910 have discussed earlier that it is the
00:25:16.520 00:25:16.530 compact heat exchanger so it has a very
00:25:19.820 00:25:19.830 high heat transfer surface area density
00:25:21.950 00:25:21.960 and it is most of the time it is more
00:25:26.330 00:25:26.340 than 700 meter square per meter cube
00:25:28.669 00:25:28.679 that means we get very very good
00:25:31.810 00:25:31.820 compactness in fact we will find some of
00:25:34.760 00:25:34.770 the cryogenic heat exchangers they are
00:25:37.100 00:25:37.110 quite really big but if they were not
00:25:40.460 00:25:40.470 compact they would have been still
00:25:42.350 00:25:42.360 bigger in size so as compared to this
00:25:47.950 00:25:47.960 surface area density we have relatively
00:25:51.409 00:25:51.419 low pressure drop any heat exchanger
00:25:55.909 00:25:55.919 designer they will try to make a heat
00:25:59.510 00:25:59.520 exchanger where we have high heat
00:26:04.039 00:26:04.049 transfer but the pressure drop penalty
00:26:07.100 00:26:07.110 is comparatively smaller so here we have
00:26:11.030 00:26:11.040 the
00:26:12.460 00:26:12.470 thermal performance desirable thermal
00:26:15.320 00:26:15.330 performance of the heat exchanger but
00:26:17.690 00:26:17.700 not very high at the cost of large
00:26:22.250 00:26:22.260 pressure drop so it is having a moderate
00:26:25.010 00:26:25.020 pressure drop and since it is made of
00:26:28.760 00:26:28.770 aluminium we have the low weight up for
00:26:33.440 00:26:33.450 this heat exchanger and it is not really
00:26:36.650 00:26:36.660 very costly though the particularly the
00:26:41.350 00:26:41.360 fabrication technique determines its
00:26:44.360 00:26:44.370 cost and the number of units which are
00:26:47.480 00:26:47.490 made on the size of the heat exchanger
00:26:49.430 00:26:49.440 that determines its cost and we have I
00:26:53.720 00:26:53.730 mean another big advantage of this
00:26:56.870 00:26:56.880 particular type of heat exchanger is
00:26:58.580 00:26:58.590 that it can handle large number of
00:27:01.580 00:27:01.590 stream in a single unit so basically
00:27:05.780 00:27:05.790 that makes this plate fin type heat
00:27:09.710 00:27:09.720 exchanger multi stream heat exchanger so
00:27:15.110 00:27:15.120 it handles multiple streams multi stream
00:27:20.020 00:27:20.030 heat exchanger so multiple stream heat
00:27:23.420 00:27:23.430 exchanger accommodating multiple streams
00:27:26.750 00:27:26.760 within a single unit is obviously
00:27:30.250 00:27:30.260 advantageous so we get well later on see
00:27:34.760 00:27:34.770 how this plate fin heat exchangers allow
00:27:37.820 00:27:37.830 the handling of multiple strings within
00:27:40.910 00:27:40.920 the same unit then we also have the
00:27:45.680 00:27:45.690 advantage particularly with respect to
00:27:48.290 00:27:48.300 this plate fin type heat exchanger is
00:27:50.780 00:27:50.790 that we have the intermediate entry and
00:27:54.200 00:27:54.210 exit of the fluid streams so that gives
00:27:57.020 00:27:57.030 up big advantage or flexibility in the
00:28:02.140 00:28:02.150 handling of the fluid streams so not
00:28:05.060 00:28:05.070 only it handles multiple streams
00:28:07.070 00:28:07.080 it also helps intermediate entry and
00:28:10.280 00:28:10.290 exit of the fluid streams in the heat
00:28:12.530 00:28:12.540 exchanger so next is its application
00:28:19.580 00:28:19.590 where are the places where we find its
00:28:22.310 00:28:22.320 application so in most of the crisis
00:28:25.670 00:28:25.680 unique process plants these days
00:28:27.620 00:28:27.630 cryogenic liquefaction liquefaction
00:28:29.900 00:28:29.910 plants then air separation plants then
00:28:33.350 00:28:33.360 we have the regenerators and as I told
00:28:36.380 00:28:36.390 you this is the air separation plant we
00:28:39.020 00:28:39.030 have the main heat exchangers the where
00:28:42.590 00:28:42.600 the air is being handled and then we
00:28:45.590 00:28:45.600 have the condenser reboiler in between
00:28:49.070 00:28:49.080 the double column unit so the condenser
00:28:52.460 00:28:52.470 reboiler earlier used to be a shell and
00:28:56.420 00:28:56.430 tube type or tubular exchanger this days
00:28:59.420 00:28:59.430 you will find frequently that these are
00:29:01.730 00:29:01.740 replaced by plate fin type heat
00:29:05.480 00:29:05.490 exchangers so most of the cryogenic
00:29:08.870 00:29:08.880 process plants heat exchangers are of
00:29:12.640 00:29:12.650 very high effectiveness and most of the
00:29:16.430 00:29:16.440 time we'll look for heat exchanger
00:29:19.370 00:29:19.380 effectiveness around and I mean 0.92 95
00:29:25.430 00:29:25.440 or so I mean otherwise some of the
00:29:31.520 00:29:31.530 processes will I mean will not at all
00:29:34.640 00:29:34.650 start if the heat exchanger
00:29:35.990 00:29:36.000 effectiveness is very small so we have
00:29:39.500 00:29:39.510 very stringent requirement for the heat
00:29:42.260 00:29:42.270 exchanger effectiveness in case of
00:29:44.210 00:29:44.220 cryogenic heat exchangers so we find
00:29:47.210 00:29:47.220 that bridge development between heat
00:29:49.850 00:29:49.860 exchangers amid that requirement of high
00:29:54.260 00:29:54.270 effectiveness heat exchangers in
00:29:56.090 00:29:56.100 cryogenic engineering moreover in
00:29:58.730 00:29:58.740 aircrafts the requirements are slightly
00:30:01.550 00:30:01.560 different here you will find that the
00:30:04.250 00:30:04.260 heat exchanger effectiveness is not that
00:30:06.080 00:30:06.090 high but it need to be a very very light
00:30:09.380 00:30:09.390 weight and there the air conditioning
00:30:13.250 00:30:13.260 hydraulic and lube oil coolers in the
00:30:16.610 00:30:16.620 ram air cooling etcetera are done in
00:30:19.400 00:30:19.410 case of I mean heat exchangers are made
00:30:22.490 00:30:22.500 out of a bridged aluminium and sometime
00:30:25.250 00:30:25.260 it is bridged stainless steel to meet
00:30:28.820 00:30:28.830 the high temperature requirement of the
00:30:32.560 00:30:32.570 handling high temperature requirement in
00:30:35.690 00:30:35.700 the air crafts we find there some of the
00:30:38.120 00:30:38.130 exchanges are May
00:30:39.529 00:30:39.539 of stainless till then in automatic
00:30:43.009 00:30:43.019 automobile radiators we find that
00:30:46.960 00:30:46.970 frequently these days we are using the
00:30:49.940 00:30:49.950 bridged aluminum plate fin type of heat
00:30:52.039 00:30:52.049 exchangers and in chemical process
00:30:54.529 00:30:54.539 plants where we have gas to gas service
00:30:58.159 00:30:58.169 this is particularly important why do we
00:31:01.759 00:31:01.769 go for a gas to gas
00:31:03.919 00:31:03.929 I mean heat exchanger I mean why should
00:31:06.560 00:31:06.570 we restrict it to the gas to gas as you
00:31:09.499 00:31:09.509 can understand that the hydraulic
00:31:11.629 00:31:11.639 diameter or the fin passage is being
00:31:14.149 00:31:14.159 very small so we have a requirement of I
00:31:18.799 00:31:18.809 mean basically clean fluid so if any
00:31:24.830 00:31:24.840 kind of darts or I mean contamination is
00:31:29.180 00:31:29.190 there in the process stream you will
00:31:31.669 00:31:31.679 find that those flow passages are
00:31:34.430 00:31:34.440 getting choked and if anything such
00:31:37.999 00:31:38.009 happens often it is not possible to
00:31:42.229 00:31:42.239 clean it if it is not getting resolved
00:31:45.499 00:31:45.509 through some of the chemicals we will
00:31:48.229 00:31:48.239 find it is not possible to get it
00:31:50.210 00:31:50.220 cleaned so this cleanliness of the
00:31:54.950 00:31:54.960 process with streams is one of the
00:31:57.799 00:31:57.809 primary requirement for this kind of
00:32:01.519 00:32:01.529 heat exchangers and in chemical process
00:32:04.549 00:32:04.559 plant where the gas and gas to gas
00:32:07.729 00:32:07.739 particularly service where it is mostly
00:32:10.549 00:32:10.559 clean and it will find that bridged
00:32:14.749 00:32:14.759 aluminium plate wing type heat
00:32:16.249 00:32:16.259 exchangers are frequently in use another
00:32:20.029 00:32:20.039 while talking about the limitations or I
00:32:23.060 00:32:23.070 mean applications of this bridge to
00:32:24.859 00:32:24.869 aluminium plate fin type of heat
00:32:26.389 00:32:26.399 exchangers we can understand that when
00:32:31.879 00:32:31.889 it is bridged aluminium plate fin heat
00:32:33.769 00:32:33.779 exchanger obviously it's high
00:32:35.570 00:32:35.580 temperature requirement is limited it
00:32:38.210 00:32:38.220 cannot go more than some thing like you
00:32:41.180 00:32:41.190 know it's solid as temperature similarly
00:32:43.430 00:32:43.440 not very close to the same solid as
00:32:45.859 00:32:45.869 temperature but on the other hand in
00:32:48.979 00:32:48.989 that case you need to go for the
00:32:50.749 00:32:50.759 stainless steel type
00:32:52.850 00:32:52.860 is stainless steel between type heat
00:32:54.860 00:32:54.870 exchanger and motor but as you can
00:32:58.640 00:32:58.650 understand from the construction of this
00:33:00.530 00:33:00.540 kind of plate fin type heat exchanger
00:33:01.940 00:33:01.950 that probably you cannot go for very
00:33:06.320 00:33:06.330 very high pressure
00:33:07.760 00:33:07.770 I mean when the process streams are of
00:33:09.890 00:33:09.900 very high pressure we cannot really
00:33:12.110 00:33:12.120 recommend the use of this plate fin type
00:33:14.930 00:33:14.940 physics nears so it is the moderate to
00:33:17.990 00:33:18.000 low pressure when it is the exchanges
00:33:21.560 00:33:21.570 are I mean are of very good use so now
00:33:27.140 00:33:27.150 know the part of the pin types I mean I
00:33:32.840 00:33:32.850 mean there are why should there be
00:33:36.380 00:33:36.390 anything and particularly when we talk
00:33:39.919 00:33:39.929 about the fin or the extended heat
00:33:42.919 00:33:42.929 transfer surface these fins as I told
00:33:46.010 00:33:46.020 you it gives up mechanical stability and
00:33:49.120 00:33:49.130 also it gives extended heat transfer
00:33:51.799 00:33:51.809 surface so if we look at that again that
00:33:56.330 00:33:56.340 equation if we look at QV calls to you
00:33:59.510 00:33:59.520 into a into delta T often this delta T L
00:34:04.880 00:34:04.890 M is dictated by the process stream we
00:34:10.520 00:34:10.530 cannot really have a control on this log
00:34:14.300 00:34:14.310 mean temperature difference we may not
00:34:16.730 00:34:16.740 have control on much control on the
00:34:19.310 00:34:19.320 overall heat transfer coefficient so we
00:34:21.649 00:34:21.659 have to manage with this area heat
00:34:25.700 00:34:25.710 transfer surface area so we augmented
00:34:29.060 00:34:29.070 the heat transfer surface area with the
00:34:32.840 00:34:32.850 extended surface heat transfer so this
00:34:36.020 00:34:36.030 is what is this fin the role of this
00:34:38.389 00:34:38.399 frame is to enhance the heat transfer
00:34:41.510 00:34:41.520 surface area along with the mechanical
00:34:44.270 00:34:44.280 stability or the construction stability
00:34:47.599 00:34:47.609 so not only that it has a third purpose
00:34:53.379 00:34:53.389 when we have a straight rectangular
00:34:56.540 00:34:56.550 plane rectangular fin we find that the
00:34:59.720 00:34:59.730 flow will be developed within a few
00:35:03.250 00:35:03.260 millimeter or depending on its size
00:35:06.920 00:35:06.930 the entrance length after the entrance
00:35:09.440 00:35:09.450 length the flow is fully developed and
00:35:11.660 00:35:11.670 there is constant heat transfer
00:35:14.600 00:35:14.610 coefficient for the entire region now
00:35:17.390 00:35:17.400 what we need to do is that the I mean if
00:35:21.590 00:35:21.600 we want to change the heat transfer
00:35:25.250 00:35:25.260 coefficient I mean if it is a regular
00:35:29.270 00:35:29.280 plain regular or rectangular plane fin
00:35:32.150 00:35:32.160 channel so we don't have that option of
00:35:35.590 00:35:35.600 breaking that boundary layer so that is
00:35:39.410 00:35:39.420 also true in case of plain trapezoidal
00:35:42.680 00:35:42.690 fin so after certain and translate you
00:35:46.400 00:35:46.410 find that the flow is fully developed
00:35:48.020 00:35:48.030 and there won't be any change in the
00:35:51.790 00:35:51.800 there is no change in the fringe
00:35:55.670 00:35:55.680 geometry I mean there is no change in
00:35:58.010 00:35:58.020 the heat transfer coefficient because of
00:36:00.020 00:36:00.030 it is fully developed but in case of
00:36:04.480 00:36:04.490 stripping geometry we find that the flow
00:36:09.110 00:36:09.120 is the it is slightly offset as we can
00:36:13.910 00:36:13.920 call it an offset stripping this is a
00:36:18.580 00:36:18.590 slightly after certain length this is
00:36:21.170 00:36:21.180 called the Lance length after this Lance
00:36:23.990 00:36:24.000 length this is known as Lance length
00:36:27.560 00:36:27.570 after the Lance length this as you can
00:36:30.920 00:36:30.930 understand that as if the flow passage
00:36:34.790 00:36:34.800 has been shifted it has you know it was
00:36:37.970 00:36:37.980 flowing like this now suddenly the path
00:36:41.360 00:36:41.370 has been broken and you know it has been
00:36:43.700 00:36:43.710 shifted like this
00:36:44.930 00:36:44.940 this channel is been shifted so after
00:36:48.380 00:36:48.390 coming the flow after coming over here
00:36:50.870 00:36:50.880 it finds that there is another you know
00:36:56.080 00:36:56.090 fresh generation of the fresh boundary
00:37:00.590 00:37:00.600 layer at this point similarly again
00:37:03.680 00:37:03.690 after going at this point it will find
00:37:06.500 00:37:06.510 that there is the flow has to be
00:37:08.510 00:37:08.520 developed at this point so like that the
00:37:11.330 00:37:11.340 flow is getting developed I mean at
00:37:13.760 00:37:13.770 every regular interval and in this
00:37:16.250 00:37:16.260 offset stripping we this purpose of this
00:37:20.660 00:37:20.670 officer Tiffin is to not only enhance
00:37:23.630 00:37:23.640 the heat transfer surface area not only
00:37:26.210 00:37:26.220 give the mechanical stability it also
00:37:29.030 00:37:29.040 enhances the heat transfer surface area
00:37:32.390 00:37:32.400 just because of the Finn construction so
00:37:36.700 00:37:36.710 another thing is of I mean use that is
00:37:41.360 00:37:41.370 wavy Finn in this type of field it is
00:37:45.710 00:37:45.720 the continuous wind here you can see
00:37:47.930 00:37:47.940 there is a discontinuity in the field we
00:37:50.990 00:37:51.000 are interrupting the FINA tricular
00:37:52.790 00:37:52.800 interval but in this type this is the
00:37:55.940 00:37:55.950 continuous fin geometry but still it's
00:37:59.150 00:37:59.160 the waviness Gibbs as the desired flow
00:38:03.290 00:38:03.300 separation at regular interval and
00:38:05.740 00:38:05.750 breaking up the boundary layer at
00:38:08.060 00:38:08.070 regular interval causing enhancement in
00:38:11.480 00:38:11.490 the heat transfer surface and heat
00:38:13.820 00:38:13.830 transfer coefficient and along with the
00:38:16.610 00:38:16.620 enhancement in the heat transfer surface
00:38:19.100 00:38:19.110 area we get enhancement in the heat
00:38:21.890 00:38:21.900 transfer coefficient so this is a way we
00:38:27.350 00:38:27.360 fin along with that we have a perforated
00:38:32.090 00:38:32.100 plane perforated heat exchanger so in
00:38:35.150 00:38:35.160 the rectangular it is not shown here in
00:38:37.880 00:38:37.890 the rectangular plane rectangular fin if
00:38:40.670 00:38:40.680 we have you know perforation on this
00:38:44.840 00:38:44.850 surface on this surface at regular
00:38:47.270 00:38:47.280 interval if we make perforations so then
00:38:50.270 00:38:50.280 we find that it is also a kind of
00:38:53.240 00:38:53.250 interrupted fin so the fluid will come
00:38:55.580 00:38:55.590 here and it will have a passage or it is
00:38:59.990 00:39:00.000 or this flow will try to go inside or
00:39:02.840 00:39:02.850 that flow it fluid will try to come out
00:39:05.840 00:39:05.850 of that perforation so thereby giving a
00:39:09.830 00:39:09.840 breakage in the boundary layer that also
00:39:12.800 00:39:12.810 we often use in plate fin type Felix
00:39:16.670 00:39:16.680 Mears thank you thank you for your
00:39:19.910 00:39:19.920 attention
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Engineering company LOTUS®
Russia, Ekaterinburg, Lunacharskogo street, 240/12

Phone: +7 343 216 77 75

E-mail: info@lotus1.ru

Sales phone

Russia: +7 343 216 77 75

WhatsApp: +79122710308