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Heat exchangers are one of the most important pieces of equipment in a chemical plant. They are used for heating/cooling of process fluids as per process requirement.
They should be procured with utmost care (e.g., it is generally very difficult to increase the heat transfer area by adding more tubes later on to a shell and tube heat exchanger) many different types of heat exchangers are available such as shell and tube; disc-and-donut; plate types; trombone types etc.
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Golwalkar, K. (2015). Heat Exchangers. In: Process Equipment Procurement in the Chemical and Related Industries. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-12078-2_9
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