Pilot experimental study on shell and tube heat exchangers with small-angles helical baffles

Chemical Engineering and Processing: Process Intensification

Volumn 69, Issue , 2013, Pages 112-118

  Zhang, Luhong ^a   Xia, Youmei ^a   Jiang, Bin ^a   Xiao, Xiaoming ^a   Yang, Xiaoling ^a  

^a TIANJIN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Fluid flow distance; Heat transfer; Pressure drop; Shell and tube heat exchanger; Small helical angles

Indexed keywords

EXPERIMENTAL COMPARISON; EXPERIMENTAL STUDIES; FLUID-FLOW; FRICTION FACTORS; HEAT TRANSFER RATE; HELICAL ANGLE; SHELL AND TUBE HEAT EXCHANGERS; SHELL-SIDE PRESSURE DROP;

EXPERIMENTS; FLOW OF FLUIDS; HEAT EXCHANGERS; HEAT TRANSFER; NUSSELT NUMBER; PRESSURE DROP; SPECIFIC HEAT; TUBES (COMPONENTS);

SHELLS (STRUCTURES);

EID: 84878012087     PISSN: 02552701     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cep.2013.03.005     Document Type: Article

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