"Over the past quarter century, the importance of heat exchangers has increased immensely from the viewpoint of energy conservation, conversion, recovery, and successful implementation of new energy sources. Its importance is also increasing from the standpoint of environmental concerns such as thermal pollution, air pollution, water pollution, and waste disposal. Heat Exchangers are used in process, power, transportation, air-conditioning and refrigeration, cryogenic, heat recovery, alternate fuels, and manufacturing industries, as well as being key components of many industrial products available in the marketplace"

R.K. Shah and D.P. Sekulic,
Fundamentals of Heat Exchanger Design,
Wiley, Hobooken, NJ, 2003, p. i.

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The advances in heat exchanger design and applications were made possible through significant improvements of heat exchanger design theory and fundaments involving heat transfer processes. The examples of the expertise in this area are as follows:

• Heat Transfer Enhancement
• Complex Flow Arrangements
• Multifluid Heat Exchangers