{"id":8801,"date":"2022-11-11T12:19:43","date_gmt":"2022-11-11T11:19:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tempco.it\/blog\/?p=8801"},"modified":"2022-11-11T12:20:41","modified_gmt":"2022-11-11T11:20:41","slug":"five-fingers-rule-and-heat-exchangers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tempco.it\/blog\/en\/8801\/five-fingers-rule-and-heat-exchangers\/","title":{"rendered":"Five fingers rule and heat exchangers"},"content":{"rendered":"

Have you ever heard about the Five fingers rule<\/strong> when sizing and designing a heat exchanger<\/strong><\/a>? There are in fact some important data that are required in order to properly design a heat exchanger.<\/p>\n

These data are: the fluid to be heated or cooled<\/strong> and its flow rate; the inlet temperature<\/strong> of the fluid, which is the temperature of the fluid when it arrives from the process; the expected outlet temperature<\/strong> of the fluid, which is the temperature of the fluid required to get back into the process; the kind of working fluid<\/strong> and how much of cooling or heating fluid is available, expressed in flow rate (kg\/hour, cubic meters\/hour); the temperature of the working fluid<\/strong> available.<\/p>\n

Five data, five fingers: having these five parameters we can calculate a thermal balance, finding out all of the required data to properly size the exchanger. Let\u2019s clearly start taking for granted that we already know the kind of fluid employed, working for example with a water\/water exchanger, or water\/oil or steam\/water.<\/p>\n