Practical Thermal Design of Shell-and-Tube Heat Exchangers

Table of contents:

Chapter 13: Enhanced Heat Transfer

13.1 What is Enhanced Heat Transfer?

13.2 Benefits of Enhanced Heat Transfer

13.3 Heat Transfer Enhancement Techniques

13.3.1 Low-fin tubes

13.3.2 High-flux tubes

13.3.3 Corrugated tubes

13.3.4 Tube inserts

13.3.4.1 Twisted tape inserts

13.3.4.2 Wire-fin tube inserts

CASE STUDY 13.1: COMPARISON OF DESIGNS WITH BARE TUBES AND TUBES WITH WIRE-FIN TUBE INSERTS

13.3.5 RODbaffle heat exchangers

13.3.6 Helical baffles (Helixchangers)

13.3.7 Twisted-tube heat exchangers

13.3.8 Plate heat exchangers

13.3.9 Spiral plate heat exchangers

13.3.10 Plate-fin heat exchangers

13.3.11 Printed circuit heat exchangers

13.3.12 Hybrid heat exchangers

13.4 Evaluation of heat transfer enhancement techniques

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