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Compact Heat Exchangers

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This chapter offers a concise review of a limited selection of topics involving an important family of heat exchangers called compact heat exchangers. Compact heat exchangers are thermal devices inherently present in many systems that feature an involvement of a single or multiple fluid streams exchanging thermal energy at differing temperatures but characterized by a large compactness. The concept of compactness refers to the magnitude of the heat transfer surface area scaled by the corresponding heat exchanger core volume. This chapter includes (i) descriptions of major types of compact heat exchangers, (ii) the construction details specific for compact heat exchangers, and (iii) design problems formulations.

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  1. Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Kentucky, 40506, Lexington, KY, USA

    Dusan P. Sekulic

  2. School of Materials Science and Engineering, Harbin Institute of Technology, 150001, Harbin, PR, China

    Dusan P. Sekulic

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  1. Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA

    Francis A. Kulacki

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  1. Politecnica/COPPE, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro,, Rio de Janeiro, Brasília, Brazil

    Renato Cotta

  2. Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of California, Riverside, California, USA

    Kambiz Vafai

  3. Herff College of Engineering, The University of Memphis, Memphis, Tennessee, USA

    Sumanta Acharya

  4. Gas Technology Institute, Illinois, Illinois, USA

    Yaroslav Chudnovsky

  5. Rm 8260, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

    Javad Mostaghimi

  6. Cekmeköy Campus, Özyegin University, Çekmeköy - Istanbul, Turkey

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  7. Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, USA

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  8. Division of Energy Delivery and Utilization, Gas Technology Institute, 1700 South Mount Prospect Road, 60018, Des Plaines, Illinois, USA

    Yaroslav Chudnovsky Ph.D

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Sekulic, D.P. (2017). Compact Heat Exchangers. In: Kulacki, F. (eds) Handbook of Thermal Science and Engineering. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-32003-8_36-1

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