FEA based Analysis & Optimization of Spaced Sequential Tube Sheet

  MIHIR PANCHAL,  Bhumik B. Patel,  Hardik Parmar

Tube sheet are used as for multiple purpose, either they connecting tubes for Heat Exchanger or act as support for filter element. As design of tube sheet is very complex, as it interacts with the pressure vessel and the stresses it generates. The location where the tube sheet is attached, radial expansion of the vessel is halted; this creates bending stresses in the vicinity of the tube sheet, in the new design that is proposed there are 3 tube sheets spaced at equal intervals. The resulting stress profile will be increasingly complex. In this research the analysis of sequential tube sheet will fall under ASME code, which recommends usage of FEA. Analysis and study the effect of tube sheet spacing on stress profile and optimize the structure with Spacing distance between tube sheets and Thickness of the tube sheet.

Keywords- Tubesheet, Sequential Spaced Tubesheet, FE Analysis of Sequential Spaced Tubesheet

Unique Identification Number - IJEDR1702109
Page Number(s) - 627-631
Pubished in - Volume 5 | Issue 2 | April 2017
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Publisher - IJEDR (ISSN - 2321-9939)

  MIHIR PANCHAL,  Bhumik B. Patel,  Hardik Parmar,   "FEA based Analysis & Optimization of Spaced Sequential Tube Sheet", International Journal of Engineering Development and Research (IJEDR), ISSN:2321-9939, Volume.5, Issue 2, pp.627-631, April 2017, Available at :http://www.ijedr.org/papers/IJEDR1702109.pdf