S.V.

National Institute of Technology

Lamella heat exchanger

Presented by: Panchal Tusharkumar Himanshubhai P18TD018
Ankit Parekh P18TM012
• This heat exchanger consists of an outer tubular shell surrounding an
inside bundle of heat transfer elements. These elements termed as
LAMELLA , which are flat tubes .
• One fluid (tube fluid) flows inside the lamellas and the other fluid
(shell fluid) flows longitudinally in the spaces between them, with no
baffles on the shell side. The exchanger thus has a single pass, and
the flow arrangement is generally counterflow.
• The inside opening of the lamella ranges from 3 to 10 mm (0.1 to 0.4
in.) and the wall thickness from 1.5 to 2 mm
Applications:
• Cooking fluid heating in pulp mills
• Liquid pre heater
• Chemical industries

Advantages:
Strong turbulence in the fluid
high operating pressure
calculation of
heat transfer through ribbed surface:
• Total transferred heat is a sum of heat transferred through the outer surface of
the pipe (without ribs) Acn, and the heat transferred through ribs area, Ar

𝑄 = 𝛼𝑟 𝐴𝑟 𝑡𝑎 − 𝑡𝑐𝑚 + 𝛼𝑐𝑛 𝐴𝑐𝑛 (𝑡𝑎 − 𝑡𝑐𝑛 )

• The degree of usefulness is the ratio between heat transferring onto the ribs and
heat that would be transferred on the ribs, when all of them would have
temperature tcn

𝐴𝑟 𝐴𝑐𝑛
ƞ𝑝 = × ƞ𝑟 +
𝐴𝑛 𝐴𝑛

where, ηr=(ta – trm)/ (ta – tcn)

Problem statement:
Given data:
Ht 468
Bt 500
Hr 465
Br 172.8
Rr 2.6
dn 12.3
Nr 192
nc 184
msa 1.138 kg/s
msw 0.231kg/s
• Minimum flow cross‐section:
𝐴𝑚𝑖𝑛 = 𝐻𝑟 − 𝑛𝑐 × 𝑑𝑛 × 𝑛𝑟 × 𝑅𝑟 = 0.146 𝑚2

• Surface area of non‐ribbed pipes

𝐴𝑐𝑛 = 𝑑𝑛 × 𝜋𝑅𝑟 × 𝑛𝑟 × 𝑛𝑐 =1.62 𝑚2

• Surface area of ribs:

𝜋
Ar = (𝑑𝑟 2-𝑑𝑛2)*nr*nc
2
• =29.812 𝑚2
• Pipe surface area between ribs:

Ag = (𝑅𝑟 − δ𝑟 )𝑑𝑛 𝜋 nr*nc

=1.527 𝑚2
 𝑄𝑠𝑎
• 𝑊𝑎𝑚𝑎𝑥 = = 6.495 m/s
𝐴𝑚𝑖𝑛

4 𝐴𝑚𝑖𝑛
• 𝑑ℎ = =0.36049m
𝐴𝑐𝑛

𝑊𝑎𝑚𝑎𝑥 ×𝑑ℎ
• 𝑅𝑒𝑎 = = 158713
𝜗𝑎

• 𝑗𝑎 = 0.0086 × 𝑅𝑒 𝑛 = 0.1624 where n=0.0531

 𝛼𝑟 ×𝐴𝑚𝑖𝑛
• 𝑗𝑎 = × 𝑃𝑟𝑎𝑛
𝑚𝑠𝑎 ×𝐶𝑝𝑎

• 𝑃𝑟𝑎𝑛 = 𝑓 𝑃𝑟𝑎 = 1.8 × 𝑃𝑟𝑎0.5 − 0.8

𝛼𝑟 ×𝐴𝑛
• 𝑗𝑎 = × 1.8𝑃𝑟 0.3 − 0.8
𝑚𝑠𝑎 ×𝐶𝑝𝑎

• 𝛼𝑟 =143.12 w/m2K
References:
• R.K.Shah book
• COMPARISON OF HEAT EXCHANGERS ACCORDING TO THE SHAPE OF
RIBS