An air-cooled exchanger, also known as heat rejection equipment where the excess process heat is rejected to the atmosphere, is a type of equipment used to cool fluids, such as water or oil, by using ambient air. It consists of a series of tubes or fins through which the hot fluid flow...
Another advantage of this style of heat exchanger, is that the floating tube sheet allows for thermal expansion and contraction of the tubes and the shell, eliminating the need for a shellside expansion joint. In straight tube exchangers, we must account for this expansion and contraction to pre...