Applications: Pumps and Fans

Editors

R. Chhabra (Ed.)

Document Type

Book Section

Publication Date

11-8-2017

Publication Title

CRC Handbook of Thermal Engineering

Publisher

CRC Press

Publisher Location

Boca Raton

Edition

2

First page number:

853

Last page number:

863

Abstract

A heat exchanger is a device to provide for the transfer of internal thermal energy (enthalpy) between two or more fluids, between a solid surface and a fluid, or between solid particulates and a fluid, in thermal contact without external heat interactions. The fluids may be single components or mixtures, and they may be single phase or multiphase. Typical applications involve heating or cooling of a fluid stream of concern, vaporization or condensation of a single- or multicomponent fluid stream, or heat recovery or rejection from a system. In other cases, the objective may be to sterilize, pasteurize, distill, fractionate, concentrate, or crystallize the process fluid. Some heat exchangers use internal mechanical devices such as rotating blades to enhance the heat-transfer process.

Disciplines

Mechanical Engineering

Language

English

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