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Heat Exchange and Waste Minimisation
Shell-and-Tube Heat Exchanger Design
This individual design project developed a shell-and-tube heat exchanger for a run-around office heat-recovery system capable of recovering 10 kW of otherwise wasted heat. Several TEMA-style configurations were compared using a Python calculation workflow. The selected G-type, two-pass design used 2 m tubes and achieved an estimated overall heat-transfer coefficient of approximately 201 W/m²K while providing the most balanced result among the configurations assessed.
- Role
- Individual thermal design, coding and configuration comparison
- Software / tools
- Python, heat-transfer calculations, CAD, TEMA design guidance
- Year
- 2024
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