Comparison of crystallization fouling in plate and double-pipe heat exchangers

Heat Transfer Engineering

Volumn 22, Issue 5, 2001, Pages 13-25

  Bansal, Bipan ^a   Müller Steinhagen, Hans ^b,c   Chen, Xiao Dong ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

^b UNIVERSITY OF STUTTGART   (Germany)

^c GERMAN AEROSPACE CENTER DLR   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM COMPOUNDS; CRYSTALLIZATION; FILTERS (FOR FLUIDS); FLUID DYNAMICS; FOULING; PARTICLES (PARTICULATE MATTER); PIPE; PLATES (STRUCTURAL COMPONENTS);

CALCIUM SULFATE CRYSTALLIZATION FOULING; CORRECTION FACTORS; FOULING RESISTANCE; PLATE DESIGN; SHEAR FORCES;

HEAT EXCHANGERS;

EID: 0035469904     PISSN: 01457632     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01457630152496287     Document Type: Article

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