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Enhanced exchangers: innovations boost heat transfer efficiency.(COOLING TECHNOLOGIES)

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Improving the efficiency of vapor-compression systems has justifiably focused on the electro-mechanical devices that actually consume energy, such as compressors and fans, but more attention is now being paid to heat exchangers, those passive, unheralded components that play a key role in overall system efficiency. It's actually a dual role, as one heat exchanger rejects heat on the condenser side of the system and another heat exchanger absorbs heat on the evaporator side.

The principal variable involved in heat transfer capacity of a heat exchanger is simply surface area, which is why most have fins, plates, or some other feature designed to ...

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