r/ChemicalEngineering • u/Excellent_Bat420 • 2d ago

Design Heat Exchanger Configuration Software

https://youtu.be/ma1LtMBo7nI?si=qmxEpXFvVWI5RvTl

What do you think about this? Would this change your daily workflow?

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u/sl0w4zn 2d ago

There are some marketing keywords that make it seem fancier than it is. The service seems more of a conceptual design level of understanding to quickly put a placeholder in your system design until you tweak it. It doesn't cut back the amount of work to produce a calculation that sizes a heat exchanger. I would treat this as a sanity check, or the same way I Google 50 F to Celsius. It's missing material analyses, I don't think it had fouling factors (but that's easy behind the scenes), more unique heat exchangers, or nozzle diameters. 

In all, I think this is maybe 3/10 useful, and I would not buy the heat exchanger with only those inputs from the video.

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u/Excellent_Bat420 2d ago

Have you tested it yet?

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u/sl0w4zn 2d ago

No, just watched the video. Imo, for engineers you shouldn't shy away from complicated topics. The video was very simple and felt like a tool for students. If you want to appeal to engineers, you have to provide more technical value than only "it's simple".

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u/Excellent_Bat420 2d ago

The video shows not all what's possible and it works for 80% of my applications. Things are becoming easier and it is the time that this is happening for bespoken components too.