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Oblate spheroids, free convective heat transfer from, Ocean Thermal Energy Conversion (OTEC), Octadecane: Octadecene: Octane: 1-Octanol: 1-Octene: Octafluorocyclobutane (Refrigerant C318) OEST, heat transfer medium, Oldroyd eight constant model, for non-Newtonian fluid, Olefins: Oliviera, S Olex, heat transfer medium, ONB (onset of nucleate boiling): Once-through cooling towers, Once-through multistage flash evaporators, (MSF-OT) One-equation models, for turbulent boundary layers, Open-circuit cooling towers, Operational envelope of a heat pipe, Operational problems:
of condensers, of heat exchangers,
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Opposed convection: Opto-microfluidics, Organic compounds, aqueous solutions of, as heat transfer media, Organic solids, density, Organic sulfur compounds: Organic vapours, dropwise condensation of, Orifices: Orifice baffles, in tube bundles with longitudinal flow, Orrick and Erbar method for saturated liquid viscosity, Outer tube limit, in shell-and-tube heat exchangers, Outlet effects, in shell-and-tube heat exchangers, Overall heat transfer coefficient, Overall power hypothesis, for critical heat flux in flow boiling, Overcapacity, in condensers, Oxygen:
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DOI 10.1615/hedhme.a.000366

3.18.1 Scope

R. A. Smith

This chapter is written primarily for the plant engineer faced with the many problems involved in the operation of heat exchangers of the kinds described in previous sections. These problems are of four types:

  1. Inadequate thermal effectiveness,

  2. Excessive pressure drop,

  3. Failure of materials, leading to leaks of fluid,

  4. Nuisances (noise and fog).

The heat exchangers will have been supplied by the company's engineering department or by an external engineering contractor or manufacturer. The plant engineer should guard against as many as possible of the likely troubles, by checking the proposed designs very carefully, as described in Section 288. The failure of one beat exchanger may lead to the shut down of a complex process plant, with considerable financial losses.

Many problems arise from changes in the operating conditions. Heat exchangers are designed to specification sheets, as described in Section 250, but they never operate at precisely the conditions specified. The flow rates and inlet temperatures of the fluids may differ significantly from those specified. Moreover the fouling resistance will differ from the value assumed in design; when the exchanger is new, or recently cleaned, there will be little or no fouling, but the fouling resistance will build up gradually, during days or months of operation, and may exceed the specified value before the exchanger is cleaned.

Section 368, Section 369, Section 370 and Section 371 describe the special problems that relate to air-cooled heat exchanger, condensers, vaporisers, and water cooling towers respectively.

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