Analysis of heat exchanger

The diploma thesis is focusing on research of possible damage mechanism of U-tubes in a heat exchanger placed within a gas waste incinerator unit in a factory dealing with chemicals manufacturing. In the first phase of the research, in which a thermo – hydraulic calculation is being made, a specialized software tool HTRI Xchanger Suite® v6.00 is used. Using the software it is possible to simulate certain operational conditions in which the heat exchanger operates. The output from the first phase of the solution is to obtain a set of temperatures of the tube material throughout the length of the tubes. These data are consequently used in the second phase of the analysis. The second phase of the analysis is dealing with thermal lenght dilatation differences assessment between tubes in the tube bundle as a predected reason of oversize tension formed in tube material and damage following afterwards. Conclusions of the calculation made in the second phase of the analysis are then checked by calculation via ANSYS Workbench 11