Research Article
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 (m2) | 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 |
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