Reference no: EM13946584

The floor space of any facility that houses shell-and- tube heat exchangers must be  sufficiently  large  so the tube bundle can be serviced easily. A rule of thumb is that the floor space must be at least 2.5 times the length of the tube bundle so that the bundle can be com- pletely removed from the shell (hence the absolute min- imum floor space is twice the tube bundle length) and subsequently cleaned, repaired, or replaced easily (asso- ciated with the extra half bundle length floor space). The room in which the heat exchanger of Problem 11.22 is to be installed is 8 m long and, therefore, the 4.7-m-long heat exchanger is too large for the facility. Will a shell-and-tube heat exchanger with two shells, one above the other, be sufficiently small to fit into the facility? Each shell has 10 tubes and 8 tube passes.