Heat Exchanger Tube

Heat Exchanger Tube are a common site throughout the engineering world and are one of the two most common types of heat exchanger; the other common type being the plate heat exchanger. Heat Exchanger Tube have a simple design, robust characteristics and relatively low purchase and maintenance costs. They also have a very high heat transfer rate although they require more space than a plate heat exchanger of similar thermal exchange capacity.

The tube side medium is usually selected for the high pressure fluid as each tube can act as a small pressure vessel; it is also more cost effective to produce high pressure rated tubes than it is to produce a high pressure rated shell. The shell and tube heat exchanger is split into two main systems, referred to as the shell side and tube side.