Seeking help with plate heat exchanger selection software
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Dear experts in this forum, I was wondering if anyone here has any useful software for selecting plate heat exchangers? I downloaded Heat Exchanger Master, but it seems to have no option for selecting plate heat exchangers. If there is any, I would be extremely grateful if you could give one to me.
How should I put it? Plate heat exchangers require different configurations depending on the operating conditions: for large temperature differences and small terminal differences, a shallower channel depth and a larger length-to-width ratio are needed, with an NTU value of over 6 being optimal. Each manufacturer of heat exchanger equipment has its own characteristics regarding the plate design; if you are not an equipment manufacturer, even if you calculate the plate design based on your actual operating conditions, it may not be available. It’s best to have the manufacturers of various heat exchanger devices carry out the design for you, and then you can compare them. The surface areas are more or less the same; the difference lies in the design of the plate layout.