Design of Shell-Tube Heat Exchangers Equipped with Static Mixers

This paper presents a rapid algorithm for designing of shell-and-tube heat exchangers equipped with static mixer inserts. The proposed algorithm uses formulation of the Kern and Bell-Delaware methods to describe the shell side flow pattern and the effect of calculation of heat transfer coefficient separately. The results are considered for application of the proposed algorithm in simple real case studies. In this work advantages of heat exchangers equipped with different static mixers and the effect of their working conditions in turbulent regime are studied. The effect of changing the number of tube passes is evaluated. The results are also compared with the previous studies.