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Heat Exchangers Technological description

Authors: Zoé MINVIELLE, Nadia CANEY, Patrice CLÉMENT, Philippe BANDELIER, Philippe MARTY, Jean Antoine GRUSS, Claude ROUSSEL

Publication date: January 10, 2014, Review date: June 14, 2021

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2. Tubular heat exchangers

2.1 Different types of shell-and-tube heat exchangers

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2.1.1 Different existing categories

For historical and economic reasons, heat exchangers using tubes as the main component of the exchange wall are the most widespread. Three categories can be distinguished, depending on the number of tubes and their arrangement, which allow an increasing exchange surface between the two fluids, from m 2 to several thousand m 2 :...

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