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3D Printing Expands HTRI’s Research

December 08, 2025

Brandon White, Engineer, Experimental Research Additive manufacturing has matured to the point where complex, performance critical geometries can be produced quickly and cost effectively. At HTRI's Research & Technology Center (RTC), we have integrated a PhotoCentric® Liquid Crystal® Magna 3D printer into our development workflow. This system allows us to fabricate...
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• SHELL-AND-TUBE
• HEAT EXCHANGERS

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HTRI advances seal strip analysis for X‑shell heat exchangers

October 13, 2025

Brandon White, Engineer, Experimental Research HTRI has launched a new experimental program at the Research & Technology Center (RTC), focusing on seal strip performance on shellside flow in shell-and-tube heat exchangers. While current methods are based on TEMA E-shell test data, HTRI is expanding the methodology to unbaffled TEMA X-shell configurations,...
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• SHELL-AND-TUBE
• SEAL STRIPS
• RTC
• RESEARCH
• HEAT EXCHANGERS
• CFD

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TT-33 Peripheral bypass sealing in shell-and-tube heat exchangers

September 15, 2025

Component: Xist Date posted: 15 September 2025 In shell-and-tube heat exchangers, mechanical clearances between bundle components and between the baffle and shell are essential for bundle fabrication, insertion, and removal. These clearances are standardized in Section 5 of the TEMA Standards [1]. The resultant bundle-to-shell radial clearance (i.e., the gap between the...
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• SHELL-AND-TUBE
• SEAL STRIPS
• MECHANICAL DESIGN
• CFD

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Acoustic vibration … in a kazoo?

March 07, 2025

While visiting my favorite used bookstore, I spotted a display of kazoos near the cash register. I was going to teach HTRI's Vibration Analysis Short Course in a few days and thought I could reinforce some important concepts in the course by explaining how kazoos work. Plus, I remembered having fun...
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• VIBRATION
• SHORT COURSE
• SHELL-AND-TUBE

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Achieving high efficiency in heat transfer equipment with HTRI digital twin technologies

February 11, 2025

The North American Refining Technology Conference (NARTC) was held January 21 — 22, 2025 in Houston, Texas. In the official conference newspaper, HTRI staff discuss the role of digital twins in heat transfer efficiency and how HTRI is at the forefront of developing solutions to advance predictive and preventive maintenance.  ...
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• XCHANGER SUITE
• SMARTPM
• SHELL-AND-TUBE
• HEAT TRANSFER
• FOULING
• FIRED HEATER
• ECONOMIZERS
• DIGITAL TWIN
• CASE STUDY
• AIR COOLED

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HTRI Training: A Global Success Story

February 11, 2025

Over the past year, HTRI Training has been well received, engaging over 900 users across the globe. We conducted 14 online workshops, 13 live webinars, 9 in-person events (in China, Europe, Japan, Korea, and US), and 6 sessions for individual companies (in Australia, Canada, India, Spain, and US). Click images to enlarge...
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• WORKSHOP
• TUTORIAL
• SHORT COURSE
• ELEARNING
• XPHE
• XIST
• XFH ULTRA
• XACE
• WEBINAR
• SHELL-AND-TUBE
• REBOILERS
• CONDENSERS
• AIR-COOLED HEAT EXCHANGER

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STS-4 Heat Transfer in Liquid Metals

January 29, 2025

Most experimental and numerical investigations on heat transfer in liquid metals with Pr < 0.1 concern tubeside flow, but a select few focus on shellside flow. This report reviews and compares single-phase heat transfer correlations for liquid metals in turbulent flow. It demonstrates that different sets of correlations should be used...
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• SINGLE-PHASE
• SHELL-AND-TUBE
• HEAT TRANSFER

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Noise, vibration, and … harshness?

December 04, 2023

NVH (noise, vibration, and harshness) is an increasingly important design metric for many commercial products—from vacuum cleaners and dishwashers, to lawnmowers and chain saws, to cars, trucks, and aircraft. Consumers demand a product that performs well but with low "observables." The first two qualities are measureable. A sound power meter can...
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• ACOUSTIC VIBRATION
• XVIB
• XIST
• VIBRATION
• SHELL-AND-TUBE
• HEAT EXCHANGERS

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Sneak Preview: SmartPM 5.0

March 24, 2021

SmartPM™ is HTRI’s performance monitoring and predictive maintenance software for shell-and-tube exchanger networks.  With this software, you can rapidly build complex digital twin models, re-using any available Xist® files connect to plant data sources such as OSIsoft PI System™ and synchronize with Xist to populate with real plant performance data, geometry, and stream properties run either...
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• SMARTPM
• SHELL-AND-TUBE
• PREVIEW

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Baffle design dictates ideal flow

June 11, 2020

Ashley Simmons, Engineer, Technical Support Each heat exchanger has unique requirements due to process constraints, site limitations, or cost concerns. The fundamentals of good design apply to every variety of exchanger. The primary goal of every designer is to optimize exchanger design for the most effective heat transfer possible. One of...
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• XIST
• WEBINAR
• SHELL-AND-TUBE
• BAFFLE

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Technical Committee Portal

November 01, 2016

The documents on this page are for Technical Committee use only. Please do not distribute. Technical Committee Meeting (April 1, 2025) Technical Committee Handbook Technical Committee Member Bios Technical Committee Nominating Charter Technical Committee Future Planning HTRI Idea Pool - FY 2026 projects and beyond (Updated: August 25, 2025) Feedback on...
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• SHELL-AND-TUBE

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STG-21 Computational Simulation of Fluid Flow, Heat Transfer, and Temperature-induced Mechanical Stress in a Shell-and-tube Heat Exchanger

July 21, 2017

We completed a multiphysics computational simulation of a shell-and-tube exchanger, where simultaneous fluid flow and heat transfer of both fluid streams occurred. Temperature-induced mechanical stress also acted on the solid structures. A weak coupling of a finite-volume CFD Navier-Stokes model with a finite-element computational solid mechanics model underlies the multiphysics simulation....
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• XIST
• CFD
• SHELL-AND-TUBE

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Educational: Shell-and-Tube Heat Exchangers in Refineries

January 16, 2017

Oil refineries fractionate components by exploiting their boiling point differences. This process is energy intensive, requiring the oil to be heated to temperatures up to 750 °F. Heat exchangers are critical to recovering the heat input and to making the process more efficient and economical. Because of their key role in...
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• EDUCATIONAL
• LEVEL 2
• REFINERIES
• SHELL-AND-TUBE

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S-SS-3-27 A Review of the A-stream Model of the Stream Analysis Method

January 16, 2017

After a brief overview of the evolution of the Stream Analysis Method, we use CFD simulation results to compare A-stream, tube-to-baffle leakage flow geometry and pressure drop models. We propose a modified A-stream pressure drop model for the refactored software that, contrary to current usage in HTRI Xchanger Suite 7, calculates...
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• CFD
• SHELL-AND-TUBE

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S-SS-3-25 Analysis of NTIW shellside performance using CFD and Xist

January 16, 2017

Using computational fluid dynamics (CFD) and Xist, HTRI simulated three configurations of no-tubes-in-window (NTIW) bundles in shell-and-tube heat exchangers. Our analysis of the trends in pressure drop and heat transfer underscores the importance of window friction and window momentum losses, even without tubes in this region, as well as the existence...
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• XIST
• SHELL-AND-TUBE
• NTIW
• CFD

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Research Update: Predicting Phase Separation in Shell-and-Tube Heat Exchangers

January 16, 2017

Recent experiments performed in the Multi-purpose Visualization Unit (MVU) analyzed the dependence of shellside phase separation on exchanger geometry. During this webinar, we discuss the variation of the stratified to non-stratified transition boundary with exchanger geometry, applicable over a wide range of flow regime parameters....
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• RESEARCH
• SHELL-AND-TUBE
• SHELLSIDE

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S-SS-3-19 Improved Pressure Drop Method for Helical Quadrant Baffle Exchangers

January 16, 2017

A shellside helical flow path in a shell-and-tube exchanger can provide a number of distinct advantages over the reversing, serpentine flow path of conventional segmental baffles; however, current open literature prediction methods do not provide the confidence engineers need to make sound design decisions. Several fundamental geometric parameters either are not...
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• SHELLSIDE
• SHELL-AND-TUBE
• CFD
• BAFFLE

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Q7-4 CFD Study of Inlet Zone Performance: Parallel vs. Perpendicular Segmental Baffle Cuts

January 16, 2017

Under contract from HTRI, university researchers simulated the fluid flow and heat transfer characteristics in the inlet zone of a shell-and-tube exchanger using computational fluid dynamics (CFD). Results revealed that the ratio of heat transfer to pressure drop for parallel baffle cut orientation was as low as 71 percent of that...
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• SHELL-AND-TUBE
• CFD
• BAFFLE

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STG-13 Computational Fluid Dynamics Study of Impingement Plates

January 16, 2017

The results of a computational fluid dynamics (CFD) study of impingement devices for inlet nozzles on shell-and-tube heat exchangers reveal the deleterious effects of increased velocity and pressure drop for a number of configurations. Simulations of entry flows with round and square solid plates as well as with rod grids were...
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• SINGLE-PHASE
• SHELL-AND-TUBE
• IMPINGEMENT RODS
• CFD

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