Thermal Analysis of Tubular Heat Exchangers Using ANSYS

Tubular Heat exchangers can be designed for high pressures relative to environment and high-pressure differences between the fluids. Tubular exchangers are used primarily for liquid-to-liquid. An attempt is made in this paper is for the Design of shell and tube heat exchangers by modeling in CATIA V5 by taking the Inner Diameter of shell is 400 mm, length of the shell is 700 mm and Outer diameter of tube is 12.5mm, length of Tube is 800mm and Shell material as Steel 1008, Tube material as Copper and Brass. By using modeling procedure Assembly Shell and Tube with water as medium is done. By using ANSYS software, the thermal analysis of Shell and Tube heat exchangers is carried out by varying the Tube materials. Comparison is made between the Experimental results, ANSYS. With the help of the available numerical results, the design of Shell and Tube heat exchangers can be altered for better efficiency.