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Baffle leakage in shell-and-tube heat exchangers: Baffles in shell-and-tube heat exchangers: Baker flow regime map for horizontal gas-liquid flow, Balance equation (applied to complete equipment), Band dryer: Bandel and Schlunder correlations, for boiling in horizontal tubes, Basket-type evaporator, Barbosa, J R Jr, Bateman, G, Bayonet tube heat exchangers, constructional features of, Bayonet tube evaporators, Beaton, C F, Beer-Lambert law, Bejan, A, Bell-Delaware method for shell-side heat transfer and pressure drop in shell-and-tube heat exchangers, Bell and Ghaly method for calculation of multicomponent condensation, Benard cells in free convection in horizontal fluid layers, Bends: Benzaldehyde: Benzene: Benzoic acid: Benzonitrile: Benzophenone: Benzyl alcohol: Benzyl chloride: Berenson equation for pool film boiling from a horizontal surface, Bergles, Arthur E, Bernoulli equation, application to flow across cylinders, Bimetallic tubes: Binary mixtures: Bingham fluid (non-Newtonian), Biofouling, Biot number: Biphenyl: Bismarck A, Black liquor, in pulp and paper industry, fouling of heat exchangers by, Black surface: Blackbody radiation, Blades, in scraped surface heat exchangers, Blake-Carmen-Kozeny equation, Blasius equation for friction factor, Blenkin, R, Blunt bodies, drag coefficients for, Boilers: Boiling: Boiling curve: Boiling length: Boiling number, definition, Boiling point, normal, Boiling range (in multicomponent mixtures): Boiling surface in boiling in vertical tubes, Boiling Water Reactor (BWR), fouling problems in, Bolted channel head in shell-and-tube exchanger, Bolted cone head in shell-and-tube heat exchanger, Bolted joints, thermal contact resistance in, Bolting, Bolting of flanges in shell-and-tube heat exchangers, Boltzmann's constant, Bonnet head, in shell-and-tube heat exchanger, Borishanski, V M, Borishanski correlation for nucleate pool boiling, Bott, T R, Boundary layer: Boussinesq approximations: Boussinesq number, definition, Bowring correlations for critical heat flux, Bracket supports for heat exchangers: Brauner, N, Brazed plate exchanger, Brazing in plate fin heat exchanger construction,
Plate fin heat exchangers
Bricks, drying of, Brine recirculation, in multistage flash-evaporation, Brinkman number, Brittle fracture, Bromine: Bromley equation for film boiling from horizontal cylinders, Bromobenzene: Bromoethane: Bromomethane: Bromotrifluoromethane (Refrigerant 13B1): Brush and cage system, for fouling mitigation, BS 5500 code for mechanical design of shell-and-tube heat exchangers (see also PD 5500), Bubble crowding as mechanism of critical heat flux, Bubble flow: Bubbles: Bulk viscosity, Bundle-induced convection in kettle reboilers, Bundle layout, in condensers Buoyancy effects: Buoyancy-induced flow in channels, free convective heat transfer with, Busemann-Crocco integral, application in boundary layer equations, 1,2-Butadiene: 1,3-Butadiene: Butane: 1-Butanol: 2-Butanol: Butene-1: cis-2-Butene: trans-2-Butene: Butterworth, D, Butyl acetate: t-Butyl alcohol: Butylamine: Butylbenzene: n-Butylbenzene: n-Butylcyclohexane: Butylcyclopentane: Butylene oxide: Butyr-aldehyde: Butyric acid: Butyronitrile: Bypass (shell-and-tube bundle):
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Plate fin heat exchangers

DOI 10.1615/hedhme.a.000429



4.4.3 Plate-Fin Heat Exchangers

The plate-fin heat exchanger is similar to the plate-type exchanger, except that an extended surface is used between the two separating sheets as shown in Figure 1. A unique feature of plate-fin heat exchangers is their high-heat transfer surface area per unit volume. Heat transfer surface area of 1,300 m2/m3 of volume is not uncommon. For this reason, they are commonly called "compact heat exchangers," although sometimes in the United Kingdom the term "matrix heat exchanger" is used.

Figure 1 Basic components of plate fin stack, courtesy of the Trane Company

There are two important subclasses of plate-fin heat exchangers, namely, the plate-fin-plate-fin construction and the plate-fin-tube construction. The plate-fin-plate-fin construction, which consists of a number of laminations of the elements in Figure 1, is normally used for gas-to-gas (or two-phase) applications. The plate-fin-tube construction, which has tubes normal to the plate structure, is used for gas-to-liquid or gas change of phase applications; the liquid or two-phase mixture flows through the tubes. The passenger car radiator and air-conditioning condenser are examples of this construction.

The most common construction material is all aluminum, which yields what are called "brazed aluminum heat exchangers." These have an extremely wide variation in core size-from the gargantuan sizes used in industrial gas processing to quite small sizes used in automotive applications (e.g., a heater cores) or aircraft (e.g., oil coolers).

First, we describe the construction of large, industrial "plate-fin-plate-fin" exchangers, and then, the construction of small plate-fin-tube exchangers.

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