May I ask: is the tube sheet thickness determined by consulting a table or using SW6?
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This post was last edited by JFTANG726 on 2009-6-11 at 16:22. Someone used the heat exchanger design specifications from 1983 to determine the thickness of the heat exchanger tube sheet. Is the tube sheet thickness determined by consulting a table or calculated using SW6? Thank you.
It must have been calculated; otherwise, why would GB151 go to such lengths to analyze the stresses on various tube sheets? It might be a special case for him to use the standard selection.
For heat exchangers with large temperature differences and pressure differences, it’s better to use SW6 for the calculations! For small-scale process operations with no special requirements, the \"Heat Exchanger Design Manual\" by Qian Songwen, 2002, which contains tables of plate thicknesses, can also be used.
Use SW or Lansys software for the calculations
There are quite a number of parameters involved in the tube sheet, so performing calculations should yield more reasonable and accurate results. As for checking the thickness, I haven’t done that before; I wonder if there are standard series of heat exchangers for which the thickness can be found
I first estimate the tube sheet thickness and then use SW6 for verification
Checking the thickness is useful for budgeting or estimating the weight of equipment, as well as for quoting prices. Since the tube sheet is the main pressure-bearing component in a heat exchanger, it definitely needs to be calculated – otherwise, how can you sleep at night?
Of course it’s calculated; looking up tables is an outdated method.
Calculation is the main method; looking up values in tables can only be used as a reference option – software calculations are still necessary