CapEngi: heat exchange training

Training

We offer two basic training sessions, so engineers can quickly assimilate fundamental notions and understand heat exchangers, and three advanced sessions to secure your HTRI calculations. Specific modules on demand.

T001: Thermal transfer theory

Duration: 2 days
Reference: T001
Price: on request
Candidates: Order handlers, designers, project managers

Session built with theoretical support and practical case studies. Each student keeps a copy of the course material.

Goals

Identify the different heat transfer modes and learn their correlations
Discover tools to evaluate the performance of your heat exchanger

Training session content

Definitions
How to calculate heat transfer rates
Fourier law
Heat transfer modes
Thermal resistance analogy
The dimensionless numbers
Film coefficient calculation
Pressure drop calculation
Phenomena and formulas
Case studies

T002: Heat exchangers: existing technologies study

Duration: 2 days
Reference: T002
Price: on request
Candidates: Order handlers, designers, project managers, technical directors

Session built with theoretical support and practical case studies. Each student keeps a copy of the course material.

Goals

Discover the heat exchanger world and the existing portfolio
Discover tools to choose the best solution

Training session content

Shell and tube heat exchangers, smooth or corrugated tubes
Compact heat exchangers, different plate patterns
Existing technologies:
- Plate and frame
- Brazed HE
- Welded PHE (bloc type, plate and shell type, lamellar box)
- Spiral HE

T003: Design review

Duration: 2 days
Reference: T003
Price: on request
Candidates: Order handlers, designers, project managers, thermal design engineers

Session built with theoretical support and practical case studies. Each student keeps a copy of the course material.

Goals

Guarantee the performance of a shell and tube heat exchanger from an HTRI calculation

Training session content

Input data
Internal bypass streams
Managing clearances to improve performance
Design review procedure
GFP (Good For Proposal), GFO (Good For Order), GFF (Good For Fabrication) and GFD (Good For Delivery) concepts, flowchart
Case studies (at least 4)

T004: Two-phase calculations – Vapour-liquid equilibrium fundamentals

Duration: 5 days
Reference: T004
Price: on request
Candidates: Order handlers, designers, project managers, thermal design engineers

Session built with theoretical support and practical case studies. Each student keeps a copy of the course material.

Goals

Understand heat transfer mechanisms in multicomponent condensation

Training session content

Condensation of a pure component
Antoine equation
Laminar condensation on a vertical plate
Turbulent condensation on a plate
Condensation of a vapour in the presence of a non-condensable gas
Dalton’s and Raoult’s laws
Building an enthalpy curve

T005: HTRI software practice

Duration: 5 days
Reference: T005
Price: on request
Candidates: Order handlers, designers, project managers, thermal design engineers

Session built with theoretical support and practical case studies. Each student keeps a copy of the course material.

Goals

Use HTRI software for single-phase and condensation calculations

Training session content

HTRI method and conventions, geometry in Xist
Performance and process data
Fluid properties module, choosing a thermodynamic model
Xist output summary: shell-side flow analysis
Xist output summary: vibration analysis
Creating and using a customized data sheet in Xchanger Suite (TT-14)
About tube count in Xist (TT-17)
Sizing an annular distributor (TT-22), G4 verification module
Setting up U-bend supports (TT-24)

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