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Article: The evolving world of heat exchangers: here's a look at the role heat exchanges play in both drain plumbing and hydronic heating applications.(Gravity Film eXchanger, Plate Heat Exchangers)
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- PM Engineer
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- August 1, 2002
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An increasing amount of attention is being given to the important role heat exchangers perform in many applications. Heat exchangers have been used in commercial and industrial applications for some time; however, there are many heat streams overlooked, including the huge amount of energy being wasted through the drain plumbing systems. Can we afford to continue to let this energy slip away? Heat can easily be transferred from where it is wasted to where it can be made useful.
The process of heat transfer through fluid-to-fluid heat exchangers is based on basic properties of heat conduction. When two independent chambers or circuits carrying fluids with a ...