Process Equipment and Plant Design
High pressure fluid in a shell and tube heat exchanger should preferably be routed through the

Tubes to avoid the expansion of high pressure shell construction
Shell side, if the flow is counter-current and tube side if the flow is co-current
Shell side for large overall heat transfer co-efficient
Shell side for smaller total pressure drop

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Process Equipment and Plant Design
In a shell and tube heat exchanger for a given heat transfer surface area, smaller diameter tubes are favoured as compared to larger diameter ones ; because the smaller diameter tubes

None of these
Can be fitted into a smaller shell diameter hence the cost of the heat exchanger would be less
Are easier to clean
Are less prone to fouling

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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

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

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