Re: RES: Vapor should be in Shell side or tube side....

William de Sá Novaes wrote:

> The advantage to put a gas stream in shell side is because we get a better
overall heat transfer coefficient (U) than put this same stream in tube side. This is truth because the shell side gets a better turbulence condition than tube side

I'd actually never thought of that, but it makes sense due to the baffles redirecting the flow.

Paul Received on Thu Jul 19 20:34:00 2007