An experimental investigation of the port flow maldistribution in small and large plate package heat exchangers

Applied Thermal Engineering

Volumn 26, Issue 16, 2006, Pages 1919-1926

  Bobbili, Prabhakara Rao ^a   Sunden, Bengt ^a   Das, Sarit K ^b  

^a LUND INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

^b INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY MADRAS   (India)

Author keywords

Flow distribution; Maldistribution; Plate heat exchangers; Pressure drop; Process

Indexed keywords

FLOW OF FLUIDS; GASKETS; PRESSURE DROP; PRESSURE MEASUREMENT; REYNOLDS NUMBER;

FLOW DISTRIBUTION; MALDISTRIBUTION; PLATE HEAT EXCHANGERS; PROCESS;

HEAT EXCHANGERS;

EID: 33744970014     PISSN: 13594311     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.applthermaleng.2006.01.015     Document Type: Article

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