Shell and tube heat exchangers are the workhorses of every oil and gas plant. They sit in crude preheat trains, amine reboilers, gas coolers, overhead condensers, and lube oil systems — and when they fail or underperform, entire units suffer. Yet most engineers working with STHEs have never been taught the full picture: from how heat actually moves, through TEMA type selection, materials and corrosion, procurement and specification, to what goes wrong in service and why.
This course fills that gap.
Across seven focused sections and approximately eight hours of instruction, you will build a systematic understanding of every aspect of STHE engineering relevant to oil and gas practice. You will start with the thermal fundamentals — the overall heat transfer coefficient, LMTD, and why counter-current flow is preferred — before moving into a component-by-component anatomy of the exchanger itself: shells, tubes, baffles, tubesheets, and floating head configurations explained clearly with real drawings.
