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– There can be many variations on the shell and tube design. Typically, the ends of each tube are connected to plenums (sometimes called water boxes) through holes in tube sheets. The tubes may be straight or bent in the shape of a U, called U-tubes.
– A U – type heat exchanger is a class of heat exchanger. It is the most common type of heat exchanger in oil refineries and other large chemical processes. As its name implies, this type of heat exchanger consists of a shell (a large vessel) with a bundle of tubes inside it.
– . They are used to boil water recycled from a steam turbine condenser into steam to drive the turbine to produce power.
– In nuclear power plants with pressurized water reactors, large heat exchangers called steam generators are two-phase,