Multitube Heat Exchanger Design
Multitube Heat Exchanger Design
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Can anyone help me in finding the recommended correlations for the heat transfer coefficient and deltaP for the shell side in a multitube (hairpin) exchanger?
Is there any table to determine the number tubes that fit in these shells, like in a normal Shell and tube exchanger?
Is there any table to determine the number tubes that fit in these shells, like in a normal Shell and tube exchanger?





RE: Multitube Heat Exchanger Design
Kern has a chapter on extended surfaces. He has an example of a multi-tube starting on page 535.
Process Heat Transfer by Hewitt,et al has the equations for the equivalent diameter of a multi-tube bundle on page 260.
Heat Exchanger Design Handbook (2002) has a rudimentary friction factor curve that includes finned tubes. That is on page 3.3.12-4
Good Luck
RE: Multitube Heat Exchanger Design