Process Equipment and Plant Design
In a multipass shell and tube heat exchanger, the baffles on shell side is primarily provided for

Fixing the tubes
Creating turbulence
Reducing scale deposition
Increasing pressure drop

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Process Equipment and Plant Design
The centre to centre distance between two consecutive baffles in a shell and tube heat exchanger is called the baffle pitch or baffle spacing, which is more than 1/5th the I.D. of the shell. Which of the following is not a function of the baffles?

To provide support to the tube bundle
To increase the residence time of shell side fluid
To reduce the induced vibration in the tubes
To increase the tube side heat transfer co-efficient by inducing turbulence

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