Process Equipment and Plant Design
The centre to centre distance between two consecutive baffles in a shell and tube heat exchanger is called the baffle pitch or baffle spacing, which is more than 1/5th the I.D. of the shell. Which of the following is not a function of the baffles?

To increase the residence time of shell side fluid
To provide support to the tube bundle
To reduce the induced vibration in the tubes
To increase the tube side heat transfer co-efficient by inducing turbulence

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Process Equipment and Plant Design
Pick out the wrong statement about routing of fluids in a shell and tube heat exchanger.

The corrosive and fouling fluid should be preferably routed through the tubes
Higher pressure fluid stream should be routed through the shell side
Lower flow rate fluid should be routed through the shell side
The viscous fluid should be routed through the shell side

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Process Equipment and Plant Design
Ponchon Savarit method is based on the use of enthalpy concentration diagram, which contains the bubble point curve (saturated liquid curve), dew point curve (saturated vapour curve) and equilibrium tie lines. As compared to McCabe-Thiele's method, this method

Facilitates direct calculation of heat load on reboiler & condenser from, the diagram used in this method
All of these
Accounts for the enthalpy changes in the process
Is more accurate in finding the number of equilibrium stages

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