Combined use of an electronic antifouling technology and brush punching for scale removal in a water-cooled plain tube

Experimental Heat Transfer

Volumn 12, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 203-213

  Liu, Rong ^a   Cho, Young I ^a  

^a Drexel University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM COMPOUNDS; DESCALING; FLOW OF FLUIDS; FOULING; HEAT TRANSFER COEFFICIENTS; MECHANICAL PROPERTIES; PRESSURE DROP; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY; WATER;

BRUSH PUNCHING; CALCIUM CARBONATE; ELECTRONIC ANTIFOULING; FOULING RESISTANCE;

HEAT EXCHANGERS;

EID: 0032677804     PISSN: 08916152     EISSN: 15210480     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/089161599269681     Document Type: Article

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