Performance analysis and optimal design of a gasketed plate heat exchanger

Heat exchanger is an essential component in complex engineering systems related to energy transformation industrial scenarios. Gasketed plated heat exchanger is an important part of a condensing or evaporating system, food processing industries. The purpose of this study is to investigate heat transfer rate and pressure drop in a gasketed plated heat exchanger. The use of gasketed plate heat exchanger increases the overall heat transfer coefficient of the exchanger. With the equations of the gasketed plated heat exchanger, mathematical modeling is done and the heat transfer coefficient, friction factor and pressure drop calculations are found. After validating the methodology of ANSYS analysis of a heat exchanger, transfer characteristics and pressure drop are established.