A risk based performance evaluation of plate-and-frame heat exchangers

Heat and Mass Transfer/Waerme- und Stoffuebertragung

Volumn 39, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 327-336

  Khan, Jameel Ur Rehman ^a   Zubair, Syed M ^a  

^a KING FAHD UNIVERSITY OF PETROLEUM AND MINERALS   (Saudi Arabia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; HARDNESS; HEAT TRANSFER COEFFICIENTS; LAPLACE TRANSFORMS; PRESSURE DROP; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; RISK ASSESSMENT; SHEAR STRESS; SURFACE PROPERTIES;

COLD-FLUID OUTLET TEMPERATURE; FOULING GROWTH MODEL; FOULING PHENOMENON; PLATE-AND-FRAME HEAT EXCHANGER;

HEAT EXCHANGERS;

EID: 0038617477     PISSN: 09477411     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00231-002-0347-2     Document Type: Article

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