This course will feature:

• • Selection of Heat Exchanger Type
  • Advanced Heat Exchanger Technologies
  • Fouling Mitigation Technologies
  • HTRI rating & design common practices
  • Highly Interactive Case Studies

By the end of this course, participants will be able to perform or become:

• • Proper Heat Exchanger Selection
  • Heat Exchanger sizing
  • Active Communicator during Meetings with Vendors
  • Better observer during final inspection of heat exchangers
  • Clear understanding of HTRI results

This CDGA course is intended for professionals who want to improve the performance of heat exchanger in their company for shell and tube and compact types and include:

• Mechanical Engineers
• Design Engineers
• Maintenance Engineers
• Instrument Engineers
• Project Engineers
• Process Engineers
• Heat Transfer Engineers
• Plant Engineers
• Operation Engineers

DAY 1- SHELL & TUBULARS

• Historical & Market Aspects
• Basic Heat Transfer
• Mean Temperature Difference & Thermal Efficiency
• Fundamentals of Stream Analysis
• TEMA Nomenclature & Selection
• Shell, Bundle, Baffle and Tube type Selection       

DAY 2- SHELL & TUBULARS ADVANCED TECHNOLOGIES

• Fouling Mitigation Technologies
• High Pressure Breech Lock Closure type
• Texas Tower, Helitower, Helixchanger, Helifin, Helitrans
• Tube Insert Technologies
• Low-fin, High-flux, Corrugated and Twisted Tube applications and examples

DAY 3- VIBRATION ANALYSIS AND HTRI / TEMA CASE STUDIES

• Tube Vibration and FIV Prevention Technologies
• Case Study Selection of TEMA type
• HTRI Case study

DAY 4- AIR COOLED & COMPACT HEAT EXCHANGERS

• Air Cooled & Economizer Type
• Double Pipe, Hairpin
• Plate & Frame, Spiral Plate & Spiral Coil
• Welded Plate (Printed Circuit, Packinox, Brazed Aluminum)
• Submerged & Waterbath Type
• Open Rack Vaporizer, Case Studies on Selection

DAY 5- HTRI THERMAL ASPECTS CONDENSERS & REBOILERS

• Practical Aspects of Condenser Design (Reflux, Vent, Shellside versus Tubeside)
• Practical Aspects of Reboiler Design (Thermosyphon, Kettle, Falling Film)

CDGA attendance certificate will be issued to all attendees completing a minimum of 80% of the total course duration.