Building Bridges and Breaking Barriers… the Story Continues

Abstract

Last time I wrote in this column was May 2005, when I talked about breaking the workflow barriers between the thermal specialist and process engineer and building a bridge of integration between software for simulation and design of heat transfer equipment and process simulation software. Referring to the cover page picture, this essentially represents the iterative workings between the process flowsheet where exchanger duty is specified and thermal design, or simulation, of the exchanger.

Now I want to share how this process of bridge building continues down the workflow toward the final stage of exchanger fabrication. The relevant bridge, this time, is between thermal design and mechanical design of the exchanger.