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Special Topics in Xace Short Course

Course Fee: US$650

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Improve your understanding of the methods in Xace and develop new skills to model difficult cases. This short course focuses on improving thermal predictions, interpreting results, troubleshooting cases and applying workarounds. Even the most experienced thermal designers will gain new insight into how to improve thermal analyses using Xace.

Case studies may include:

  • Rating natural draft (fans-off) cases
  • Improving accuracy of predicted driver power
  • Modeling units with redundancy fans (3x50% fans)
  • Multiple service units
  • Inert blanketing in air-cooled condensers

Suggested Participants

Experienced Xace users who rate, design and troubleshoot air-cooled heat exchangers

HTRI Software

This course will make use of the following HTRI software: Xchanger Suite® component Xace®.  All training materials are based on the current software version.

Course Credits: 6 hours (PDH/CEU)


Outline

  1. Modeling Redundancy Fans in Xace
    • Why are redundancy fans used
    • Specification procedure
    • Interpreting outputs 

  2. Xace Fan Driver Power
    • Importance of driver power estimate
    • Auxiliary pressure losses in air-coolers
    • Fan manufacturers' screening tools

  3. Rating Natural Draft Cases in Xace
    • Air flow rate calculation
    • Xace natural draft air-cooler method
    • Specification procedure

  4. Multiple Service Air-Coolers
    • Common applications
    • Specification procedure
    • HTRI design guidelines

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