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Prevention from Heat Exchanger Failure Analysis

Mangal Singh, Mamta Bhagat

Abstract


Abstract- Heat exchanger is the gear which is used to limit temperature of one technique fluid, which is preferred to cool, by using transferring heat to some other fluid which is favored to heat with or barring inter-mixing the fluid or altering the physical state of the fluid. There are a number of reasons by using which Heat exchanger can also fail. As they are used at huge vary of temperatures consequently there is opportunity that crack may set off in it and can purpose catastrophic failure. Heat exchanger may additionally fail by way of corrosion of tubes. Vibrations and fatigue are the examples of most unsafe reasons that can motive failure. The learn about of ‘Failure evaluation of Shell and tube Heat Exchangers’ will assist to apprehend techniques to analyse a number of kinds of failure in Shell and tube Heat Exchangers . The remedies for failures and conclusions on design enhancement of Heat Exchangers in order to decrease probabilities of failures with expanded reliability are mentioned in this article.

 


Keywords


Corrosion, failure analysis, fouling, mechanical failure, tube heat exchanger

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