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Recuperators: Through-the-Wall Nonstoring Exchangers

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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.

$$ \frac{1}{UA}=\frac{1}{h_1{A}_1}+\frac{\Delta x}{k{A}_{\mathrm{mean}}}+\frac{1}{h_2{A}_2} $$

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    Note that uppercase letters \( \dot{M} \), C, and T represent the shell-side fluid; lowercase letters \( \dot{m} \), c, and t represent the tube-side fluid; ΔT = T – t represents the temperature driving force; and subscripts 1 and 2 stand for the entering and leaving fluid stream, respectively.

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  1. Department of Chemical Engineering, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR, USA

    Octave Levenspiel

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Levenspiel, O. (2014). Recuperators: Through-the-Wall Nonstoring Exchangers. In: Engineering Flow and Heat Exchange. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-7454-9_13

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