Classification of heat exchangers
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It seems really complicated to classify heat exchangers; often, it’s necessary to calculate the PV product separately for the shell side and the tube side. I wonder whether the volume inside the heat exchange tubes is taken into account as well If the medium flowing through the pipe is heated from a liquid state to a gas state, then how should the PV product be determined in this case?
The volume inside the heat exchange tube should be taken into account, right?
The volume inside the heat exchange tube should be taken into account; the medium flowing through the tube passes from a liquid state to a gas state, and a conservative approach is to calculate the total volume of the tube
The volume of the shell side is calculated without deducting the volume of the heat exchange tubes. The pipe schedule calculation must include the volume of the heat exchange tubes.