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com/doc/13242870/Types-of-Heat-Exchangers A heat exchanger is a device that is used for transfer of thermal energy (enthalpy)between two or more fluids, between a solid surface and a fluid, or between solidparticulates and a fluid, at differing temperatures and in thermal contact, usually withoutexternal heat and work interactions. The fluids may be single compounds or mixtures.Typical applications involve heating or cooling of a fluid stream of concern, evaporation orcondensation of a single or multicomponent fluid stream, and heat recovery or heatrejection from a system. In other applications, the objective may be to sterilize, pasteurize,fractionate, distill, concentrate, crystallize, or control process fluid. In some heatexchangers, the fluids exchanging heat are in direct contact. In other heat exchangers, heattransfer between fluids takes place through a separating wall or into and out of a wall in atransient manner. In most heat exchangers, the fluids are separated by a heat transfer surface,and ideally they do not mix. Such exchangers are referred to as the direct transfer type,or simply recuperators.In contrast, exchangers in which there is an intermittent heatexchange between the hot and cold fluids via thermal energy storage and rejection throughthe exchanger surface or matrixare referred to as the indirect transfer type or storagetype,or simply regenerators.Such exchangers usually have leakage and fluid carryover fromone stream to the other.

Shell and Tube Heat Exchangers

Shell-and-tube heat exchangers are fabricated with round tubes mounted incylindrical shells with their axes coaxial with the shell axis. The differences between themany variations of this basic type of heat exchanger lie mainly in their construction featuresand the provisions made for handling differential thermal expansion between tubes andshell.There are various design considerations to be taken into account such as routing of fluids (shell or tube), pressure drop especially in the case of increasing number of bafflesand tube diameter and adjusting the area with the suitability of the exchanger to conductthe heat required to heat or cool a fluid with another one.