
A shell and tube heat exchanger is a class of heat exchanger designs. It is the most common type of heat exchanger in oil refineries and other large chemical processes, and is suited for higher-pressure applications. As its name implies, this type of heat exchanger consists of a shell (a large pressure vessel) with a bundle of tubes inside it. One...
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(from the article `heat exchanger`) The most common type of heat exchanger is the shell-and-tube type illustrated in Figure 2. It utilizes a bundle of tubes through which one of the ...
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