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Introduction to Heat Exchangers

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Heat exchangers are devices for transferring heat from a hot flowing stream to a cold flowing stream. There are three broad types of exchangers:

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Levenspiel, O. (2014). Introduction to Heat Exchangers. In: Engineering Flow and Heat Exchange. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-7454-9_12

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