Metodología para el diseño de intercambiadores de calor tipo coraza y tubos

Abstract

Heat exchangers have been the subject of study for over a century. Its classification has opened various branches of study. Among the equipment called recuperators are those of the casing and tube type. These equipments are used to carry out cooling and heating processes from water circuits. Although water is not the only substance of interest, a large number of research papers address hydrodynamic behavior coupled to heat exchange processes in elements of different sizes, with various flow arrangements and of various types, such that it is desired to characterize them depending on the thermal performance to mainly achieve some target temperature in the fluids involved, even when this involves dealing with large pressure drops. In this way, the generation of computational tools that help the understanding of functionality under certain operating conditions has been proposed, as well as the manufacturing with certainty and low cost. The verified and validated results of an application developed with accessible computing resources establish a contribution in this active field of engineering.