ME 421 Steam Generator and Heat Exchanger Design (Fall 2009)

 

Alfa Laval

Instructor
Dr. Almıla G. Yazıcıoğlu  

Office: B-314
Phone: 210 5263

yalmila@metu.edu.tr

Teaching Assistant
Bilgehan Tekin

Office: A-147
Phone: 210 5276

tekinb@metu.edu.tr

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Announcements (check the archive for announcements you might have missed)

20.11.2009 Part 1 and Part 2 for the lecture notes for Chapter 10 are posted.

17.11.2009 Supplementary material for Chapter 8 is here.

17.11.2009 REMINDER: PROJECT GROUPS - The groups need to be four students each (with the exception of one group of five, already formed). If there is anyone who has not already formed a group of four, they should contact me as soon as possible.

17.11.2009 The following students have missed many lectures as of this Monday. Please be reminded that attendance is mandatory and not attending 70% of the lectures is a cause for failure from the class.

Alper Dinçer (missed 7 out of 9)

İlker Gülen (missed 4 out of 9)

Kadir Polat (missed 4 out of 9)

Hasan Türk (missed 4 out of 9)

Özgür Yıldız (missed 5 out of 9)

Ahmet Cüneyt Yılmazer (missed 4 out of 9)

09.11.2009 Project guidelines are here. Proposal submission is extended to Monday, November 23, at the beginning of class. Late submissions will be accepted, but will get a zero grade. As a group, you must see me before you submit the proposal.

 

General Course Information

Textbook : "Heat Exchangers: Selection, Rating and Thermal Design" by S. Kakaç and H. Liu, CRC Press, 2nd ed., 2002.

Schedule : Monday 9:40-11:30 and Wednesday 12:40-13:30 in G-201

 

Subject (tentative lecture length)

Reading

Study Problems

Introduction (1 lecture hour)

Chapter 1

Read Chapter 1

Basic Design Methods (3)

Chapter 2

Problems 2.9, 2.16 from the textbook, Problem Set 1

Design Correlations (2)

Chapter 3

3.5, 3.12, 3.15

Pressure Drop in Heat Exchangers (3)

Chapter 4

4.3 (The size 4 in. x 3 in. is the nominal pipe size – 4 in. for the outer tube and 3 in. for the inner tube – select Schedule 40 from Table 8.2 in book), 4.11 (do not plot)

Fouling of Heat Exchangers (3)

Chapter 5

 

Double-Pipe Heat Exchangers (3)

Chapter 6

6.5

Shell-and-Tube Heat Exchangers (4)

Chapter 8

 

Gasketed-Plate Heat Exchangers (4)

Chapter 10

 

Compact Heat Exchangers (3)

Chapter 9

 

Correlations for Two-Phase Flow (3)

Chapter 7

 

Condensers and Evaporators (4)

Chapter 11

 

Design Project Presentations by Students (3)