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A shell-and-tube heat exchanger with new type of baffles, is designed, fabricated and tested. The experimental investigation for the proposed model and the original segmental baffle heat exchanger are conducted. The operation performances of the two heat exchangers are also compared. The results suggest that, under the same conditions, the overall performance of the new model is 20–30% more efficient than that of the segmental baffle heat exchanger.
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This work was supported by the National Key Basic Research Development Program of China (Grant No. 2007CB206903) and the Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 51036003). Mr. Ho Simon Wang at HUST Academic Writing Center has helped improve the linguistic presentation of this paper.
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Wang, Y., Liu, Z., Huang, S. et al. Experimental investigation of shell-and-tube heat exchanger with a new type of baffles. Heat Mass Transfer 47, 833–839 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00231-010-0590-x
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