Chapter 7: Heat exchangers
Abstract
A heat exchanger is a device that facilitates the process of heat exchange between two fluids that are at different temperatures. Heat exchangers are used in many engineering applications, such as refrigeration, heating and air-conditioning systems, power plants, chemical processing systems, food processing systems, automobile radiators, and waste heat recovery units. Air preheaters, economizers, evaporators, superheaters, condensers, and cooling towers used in a power plant are a few examples of heat exchangers.
This chapter presents the parameters that influence the performance of a heat exchanger and discusses the approaches for the design of a heat exchanger or the prediction of the performance of an already ...
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