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5. Multifunctional heat exchangers
In the case of exchangers/reactors, the plates through which the reaction fluid flows ("process" plates) are placed alternately with the cooling (or heating, so-called "utility" plates, figure 21 ) plates.
The reaction path, whose characteristic dimensions are generally of the order of a few millimeters, is then either lined with inserts or structured to intensify transfers while maintaining sufficient residence time to achieve the required conversion rate.
There are several types of inserts: some come from the field of heat exchangers (perforated fins, staggered-pitch fins
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Bibliography
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Société Française de Thermique: Summer schools and SFT days on heat transfer, annual congress http://www.sft.asso.fr
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Suppliers of high-efficiency heat exchangers and heat exchanger surfaces (non-exhaustive list)
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Wieland France http://www.wieland.fr/
Furikawa Electric http://www.furukawa.co.jp/english
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