Heat exchanger
The shell and tube heat exchanger seen on a Chiller.
A heat exchanger is a device used to efficiently transfer heat from one fluid to another. The fluids may be separated to avoid direct contact or mixing.
Types
- Adiabatic wheel heat exchanger
- Double pipe heat exchanger
- Dynamic scraped surface heat exchanger
- Fluid heat exchanger
- Phase-change heat exchanger
- Pillow plate heat exchanger
- Plate and shell heat exchanger
- Plate fin heat exchanger
- Plate heat exchanger
- Shell and tube heat exchanger
- Waste Heat Recovery Unit heat exchanger
Heat Exchanger Media
Simple tubular heat exchanger
Countercurrent (A) and parallel (B) flows
A shell and tube heat exchanger
Shell and tube heat exchanger
Conceptual diagram of a plate and frame heat exchanger.
A single plate heat exchanger
An interchangeable plate heat exchanger directly applied to the system of a swimming pool
Typical kettle reboiler used for industrial distillation towers
Typical water-cooled surface condenser
