HTRI advances seal strip analysis for X‑shell heat exchangers
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HTRI advances seal strip analysis for X‑shell heat exchangers

October 13, 2025

Brandon White, Engineer, Experimental Research HTRI has launched a new experimental program at the Research & Technology Center (RTC), focusing on seal strip performance on shellside flow in shell-and-tube heat exchangers. While current methods are based on TEMA E-shell test data, HTRI is expanding the methodology to unbaffled TEMA X-shell configurations,...

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