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Xace Workshop

Course Fee: US$450

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Do you design air-cooled heat exchangers? Evaluate their performance? Then this workshop is for you. Learn how to use Xace effectively to rate and design air-cooled heat exchangers, economizers, and air preheaters. All example problems and practice exercises relate to geometries handled only by Xace.

Key Topics

  • Overview of Xace capabilities and applications
  • Geometry inputs for air coolers and economizers
  • Process specifications for rating, simulation, and design
  • Guidelines for specifying fluid properties
  • Introduction to HTRI analysis methods

Suggested Participants

Designers of air-cooled heat exchangers and process engineers who evaluate their performance

HTRI Software

This course will make use of the following HTRI software: Xchanger Suite® component Xace®.  All training materials are based on the current software version.

Course Credits: 6 hours (PDH/CEU)

 


Outline

  1. Introduction to Air-cooler Basics
    • Geometry
    • Configurations

  2. Xace Input
    • Input specifications
    • Design tips and common design approaches

  3. Performance and Fluid Property Data
    • Measures of performance
    • Process specification rules
    • Methods to specify fluid properties in Xace

  4. Tubeside Methods
    • Single-phase
    • Condensing

  5. Airside Methods
    • Extended surfaces model
    • Auxiliary pressure losses
    • Natural draft
    • Maldistribution

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Upcoming Instructors

  • Aovi Deshpande


  • Research Engineer, Engineering Services, earned a BS in chemical engineering from the University of Mumbai, India. After working as a process engineer at KBR Inc. in India, Deshpande completed an MS in chemical engineering from Texas A&M University in College Station, Texas, USA. At HTRI, she provides end-user technical support and consulting services to members, ensuring that software methods reflect actual user experiences. She also performs contract thermal rating and design reviews, as well as works to execute assigned HTRI research projects related to process heat transfer for software enhancements.

  • Andy Mountford


  • Senior Technical Lead, Training, provides technical support and training for HTRI. He earned a BSc and MSc in Chemistry and a PhD in Organometallic and Materials Chemistry from the University of East Anglia, Norwich, UK. During his tenure there, he conducted research at Wolfson Laboratory for Materials and Catalysis. He previously held the position of Thermal Design Supervisor at Tecnicas Reunidas in Madrid, Spain, gaining valuable experience using HTRI methods and software. Mountford oversaw the development of several high-profile PWR and BWR nuclear plant projects, as well as gained valuable experience in the thermohydraulic design of heat transfer equipment for the petrochemical and nitric acid/nitrates industries. His experience in using HTRI Xchanger Suite makes him uniquely qualified to bring an end-user’s perspective to the HTRI training program and to share techniques for effectively working with the software.

  • Stefano Tagliaferri


  • Engineer, Research, completed his MS in Petroleum Engineering from the Technical University of Denmark, Copenhagen, in 2017. During his studies, he served as a research assistant at the Danish Hydrocarbon Research and Technology Center, designing and conducting high pressure and high temperature core flooding experiments to replicate oil extraction in North Sea Fields. Prior to joining HTRI, Tagliaferri worked as an R&D Engineer at Filtration Technology Corporation in Houston, Texas. In this role, he developed and executed coalescer test stands for liquid-liquid separation and conducted bench and pilot test scale testing for various fluid contaminant separation applications. At HTRI, Tagliaferri is involved in studying and testing coatings for heat exchanger applications, as well as in research related to non-Newtonian fluids and crude oil fouling.