Pressure Drop in Plate Heat Exchangers for Single-Phase Convection in Turbulent Flow Regime: Experiment and Theory

Table 1

Chevron plate characteristics.

Plate	P1	P2	P3	P4
De = 2t (mm)	5.2
D (mm)	148
A (m^2)	0.3634	0.5618	0.7602	1.0243
Lcorr (m)	0.592	0.957	1.322	1.808
Lport (m)	0.941	1.306	1.671	2.158
Bch (m)	0.456
Λ (mm)	9.0
Δwall (mm)	0.5
λwall (W/mK)	15
FK	1.192
Number of plates	19, 35, 51	17, 35, 51	51	17, 51