Heat transfer from one
medium to another is done with a machine called heat exchanger. The medium can
be split up by compartments to avoid mixing or to avoid direct contact. A
classic example of this is available at the products and services of Heat Exchangers WA. Many people didn’t know about heat exchangers. Here are the examples
of machines and equipment that utilize the use of heat exchangers.
Car Radiators
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| Car Radiators |
When something wrong
happens to your car engine like overheating, it is probably caused by radiator failure. Car radiators are the most common use of heat exchangers or
actually, radiator is a type of heat exchanger. Heat exchangers don’t just manipulate the flow of heat, but also
manipulate and act as coolant. We can find it inside an internal combustion engine
where it acts as heat moderator and coolant.
Refrigerators
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As mentioned above,
heat exchangers also acts
as a coolant and refrigerators are the best example to best back it up.
Basically, different types of
heat exchangers are used in refrigeration namely
plate heat exchangers,
tubular heat exchangers and
coaxial coil heat
exchangers. Each one of them plays different roles but is weighted equally.
Air Conditioner/Heater
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Another example of
machine or equipment that has
heat exchanger is your air conditioner or heater
at home. Actually, every machine and equipment that produces hotness or
coolness has a
heat exchanger. They manipulate the flow of heat through fluids.
I have read a life hack that combine aluminum fins, copper pipe, and box fan,
and with that, it created a homemade air conditioner. How does it happen? Well,
not just they have built a homemade air conditioner but using aluminum fins and
copper, they had also built an improvised
heat exchanger.
Those that I’ve said are
the basic examples of the applications of heat exchangers. The major
application of it is in the energy industry where cooling towers plays a huge
role. Chemical plants, petrochemical plants, and power plants are the foremost
portion in the energy industry that is run mostly by heat exchangers. For more
information, please visit www.heatexchangers.com.au.
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