Experimental investigation on port-to-channel flow maldistribution in plate heat exchangers

Heat Transfer Engineering

Volumn 28, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 435-443

  Tereda, Fantu A ^a   Srihari, N ^a   Sunden, Bengt ^b   Das, Sarit K ^a  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY MADRAS   (India)

^b LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHANNEL FLOW; FLOW OF FLUIDS; GASKETS; PLATES (STRUCTURAL COMPONENTS); PRESSURE DISTRIBUTION; WETTING;

MALDISTRIBUTION; PLATE HEAT EXCHANGERS; PORT DIMENSIONS; PORT PRESSURE DISTRIBUTION;

HEAT EXCHANGERS;

EID: 33847740320     PISSN: 01457632     EISSN: 15210537     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01457630601163769     Document Type: Article

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