Design and Thermal Analysis of Heat Exchangers Applicable to Energy Systems

Heat exchangers enable processing plants to maintain maximum performance over time when handling variable process conditions.The most frequent heat exchanger issues, however, can occasionally be far more challenging to fix, resulting in high capital expenses and rising running costs.Consequently, there is a crucial need to redesign the current heat exchanger for improved performance.In this work, a shell and tube-type heat exchanger is designed with the help of CREO 8.0 parametric software.Transient thermal analysis is done to the designed model using ANSYS 2022 R2 software to investigate different shell and tube heat exchanger materials and assess the heat exchanger for its efficiency and temperature gradient.These results can be used to design appropriate heat exchangers in stationary energy systems, including power plants and fuel cell systems.