Inzynieria Chemiczna i Procesowa, Vol.18, No.1, 19-37, 1997
Analysis of methods for rating shell number in heat exchanger network targeting
The analysis of approaches presented in the literature for assessing minimum number of shells in targeting heat exchanger networks is given in the paper. The authors have shown that the method based on summing up shells in enthalpy intervals can yield invalid results, i.e. results which are in disagreement with the theory. The analysis of the reasons of such inconsistency is presented, too.