A Simple Tubesheet Layout Program for Heat Exchangers
- 1 Jaya Prakash Narayan College of Engineering, India
- 2 Indian Institute of Chemical Technology, India
Abstract
The development of tubesheet layout program for shell and tube heat exchangers is presented in this study. Program is written in AutoLISP language, which provides standard tubesheet layout drawing as per standard codes and non standard tubsheet in AutoCAD Environment. The program computes the optimal number of tube count and lays out drawing with respecting constraints, including the shell ID, number of passes, center to center distance of tubes and tube outer diameter. Tubesheet layout drawing can be used as template for actual tubesheet. Furthermore the program is validated with open literature and shown good agreement with it. Besides the tubesheet for Heat exchangers this method can be extended to the tube counts of sheave plates and perforated plates of distillation column and Cooling Towers.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.3844/ajeassp.2008.131.135
Copyright: © 2008 S. Murali and Y. Bhaskar Rao. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the
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Keywords
- Heat exchanger
- Tube count
- Tubesheet drawing
- Auto LISP