Desmond Aubery

Reverse Engineering Sanity Check When plate heat-exchangers - or any heat-exchangers (HE) for that matter - are quoted by a vendor, on a large Petro-Chemical project, the project Process and Mechanical engineers have to use a methodology to prove that the vendor's product will work. Now, the project engineers are not specialized heat-exchanger designers, so have to resort to a reverse-engineering technique - working back from the vendor's HE data sheets until a point is reached at which the calculations can be compared to recognized industry norms. If the calculated values fall within the acceptable range, then it is very likely that the heat-exchanger will work. I developed this methodology for a client so that he could prove the viability of a series of PHE designs. I call this the 'Reverse-Engineering Sanity Check Method'. The picture shows the following: an HTML Report (left), a Word-based Report (centre), and a section of the reverse-engineering method (right). Reverse Engineering Sanity Check Results Prepared by: Desmond Aubery RareTechSEA 16th May 2024