Electronic anti-fouling technology to mitigate precipitation fouling in plate-and-frame heat exchangers

International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer

Volumn 41, Issue 17, 1998, Pages 2565-2571

  Cho, Young I ^a   Choi, Byung Gap ^a   Drazner, Bennat J ^b  

^a Drexel University   (United States)

^b ALFA LAVAL   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FOULING; HEAT TRANSFER COEFFICIENTS; PLATES (STRUCTURAL COMPONENTS); PRESSURE DROP;

ELECTRONIC ANTIFOULING (EAF) TECHNOLOGY; PLATE-AND-FRAME HEAT EXCHANGERS;

HEAT EXCHANGERS;

ANTIFOULING DEVICE; FOULING; HEAT EXCHANGER; PRECIPITATION;

EID: 0032169119     PISSN: 00179310     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0017-9310(97)00347-5     Document Type: Article

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