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Visualizing the impact of wind on air-cooled heat exchangers performance
October 13, 2025
Salem Bouhairie, Group Lead Research The performance of air-cooled heat exchangers (ACHE) is prone to the effects of wind. Wind has a greater effect on ACHEs operating in natural draft (buoyancy-driven air flow) than ACHEs operating in forced draft (fan-driven air flow). Subsequently, engineers follow API 661 guidelines that recognize the...
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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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TE-7 Review of Intube Static Mixers for Heat Transfer Applications
April 23, 2024
Inline static mixers promote the radial spreading of momentum and heat and are thus useful in enhancing heat transfer, especially in viscous laminar flows. After a brief review of the physics of plain tube laminar flow heat transfer, this report includes classifications of these mixers based on their construction and presents some...
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