The scope of Masters in Thermal Engineering specilization

Amit Arora

The Northcap University, Gurgaon

All industrial applications involving heat exchange require high effectiveness heat exchangers. That’s why heat transfer enhancement in heat exchangers is an important area of development. One of the most popular types of exchanger is Shell and Tube Heat Exchangers. Their popularity is due to the ability to perform over a wide range of pressures and temperatures. Depending upon the applications, there are two main classes of Shell and Tube exchanger. One class of aforesaid exchangers is used in petrochemical industry and the other class is used in power industry to serve as feed water heaters and power plant condensers. A shell and tube exchanger consists of a large number of tubes housed inside a long cylindrical shell. Two fluids exchange heat when one fluid flows over the tubes and the other fluid flows through the tubes. Both the fluids can flow either with parallel or counter flow arrangement. Complex flow and heat transfer physics makes the compact design of such heat exchangers a challenging task for the designers as it requires thorough research on geometric optimization and its characterization. For accomplishing such a task, carefully designed experimental as well as numerical studies can be carried out at post graduate and doctorate levels.

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