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  • 1fuel-air heat exchanger — A method of cooling the fuel that gets heated in prolonged supersonic flight. The heat exchanger is in the form of a radiator in which the fuel passes through the cores while cool air is outside the cores. See fuel heater …

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  • 2Air-to-air heat exchanger —   A device with separate air chambers that transfers heat between the conditioned air being exhausted and the outside air being supplied to a building.   California Energy Comission. Dictionary of Energy Terms …

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  • 3Liquid-To-Air Heat Exchanger —   A heat exchanger that transfers the heat contained in a liquid heat transfer fluid to air …

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  • 4Ground-coupled heat exchanger — Earth cooling tubes or earth warming tubes (also known as ground coupled heat exchangers) utilize the earth s near constant subterranean temperature to warm or cool air for residential, agricultural or industrial uses. They are often a viable and …

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  • 5Heat exchanger — An interchangeable plate heat exchanger Tubular heat exchan …

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  • 6heat exchanger — a device for transferring the heat of one substance to another, as from the exhaust gases to the incoming air in a regenerative furnace. [1900 05] * * * Any of several devices that transfer heat from a hot to a cold fluid. In many engineering… …

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  • 7heat exchanger — A device used to exchange heat from one medium to another often through metal walls, usually to extract heat from a medium flowing between two surfaces. A heat exchanger is usually in the form of a radiator with one fluid flowing inside tubes and …

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  • 8heat exchanger — heat′ exchang er n. thr a device for transferring the heat of one substance to another, as from the exhaust gases to the incoming air in a furnace • Etymology: 1900–05 …

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  • 9Plate fin heat exchanger — A plate fin heat exchanger is a type of heat exchanger design that uses plates and finned chambers to transfer heat between fluids. It is often categorized as a compact heat exchanger to emphasise its relatively high heat transfer surface area to …

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  • 10Concentric tube heat exchanger — Concentric Tube (or Pipe) Heat Exchangers are used in a variety of industries for purposes such as material processing, food preparation and air conditioning.[1] They create a temperature driving force by passing fluid streams of different… …

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