Xace Workshop

Course Fee: US$450

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