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C4 Fouling of Heat Exchanger Surfaces

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1 Introduction

In most industrial processes, heat exchanging fluids contain certain amounts of dissolved or suspended material or provide conditions favorable for the growth of biological organisms. Design and operation of heat exchangers are still to a major extent determined by the process-related formation of deposits on the heat transfer surfaces, i.e., fouling. Since the thermal conductivity of such deposits is low, see Table 1, their resistance to heat transfer may well exceed that of the clean fluids, resulting in significantly reduced heat exchanger performance.

C4. Table 1 Thermal conductivity of various deposits
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    Hans Müller-Steinhagen (2010). C4 Fouling of Heat Exchanger Surfaces. In: VDI Heat Atlas. VDI-Buch. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-77877-6_7

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