linomp / heat-exchanger-design-tool

Tool for designing & optimizing shell-and-tube heat exchangers in Matlab. Includes GUI.

heat-exchanger-design-tool

About

This is a Matlab tool to aid in the design of shell & tube heat exchangers, with built-in optimization functionality.

It uses a genetic algorithm to find the heat exchanger dimensions that minimize the annual cost, while meeting the required heat transfer rate.

Currently it solves for the following variables:

- tube length 
- shell diameter
- tube diameter
- number of passes
- number of tubes
- baffle spacing

Resources

• Matlab source code
• Project report
• Project poster

Credits

Final project of the Heat Transfer course at Universidad San Francisco de Quito (USFQ), Spring 2019.

Created by Farhana Chowdhury, Alejandro Espinel, Maria Jose Jacome Moreira & Lino Mediavilla.

heat-exchanger-design-tool's Issues

Migrate to Python + Streamlit & deploy to Streamlit Cloud

This would make it much easier to use for everyone!

Problem in GUI

The GUI seems interesting and useful.
However, when we try to run the GUI and enter Fluid type the following error appears.

"Struct contents reference from a non-struct array object.

Error in Proyecto_transfer2>M_Tube_Callback (line 432)
contents = cellstr(get(handles.M_Tube,'String'));

Error in gui_mainfcn (line 95)
feval(varargin{:});

Error in Proyecto_transfer2 (line 42)
gui_mainfcn(gui_State, varargin{:});

Error in
matlab.graphics.internal.figfile.FigFile/read>@(hObject,eventdata)Proyecto_transfer2('M_Tube_Callback',hObject,eventdata,guidata(hObject))

Error while evaluating UIControl Callback"

Can you please guide where i am making error.

Thanks