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Recuperators: Through-The-Wall Nonstoring Exchangers

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Engineering Flow and Heat Exchange

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Recuperators are heat exchangers wherein the two fluids transferring heat are kept away from each other by a wall. Their design requires two pieces of information.

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Levenspiel, O. (1984). Recuperators: Through-The-Wall Nonstoring Exchangers. In: Engineering Flow and Heat Exchange. The Plenum Chemical Engineering Series. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-6907-7_13

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