{"id":9511,"date":"2023-07-28T11:23:41","date_gmt":"2023-07-28T09:23:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tempco.it\/blog\/?p=9511"},"modified":"2023-07-28T14:55:55","modified_gmt":"2023-07-28T12:55:55","slug":"fouling-factor-each-type-of-exchanger-has-his-own","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tempco.it\/blog\/en\/9511\/fouling-factor-each-type-of-exchanger-has-his-own\/","title":{"rendered":"Fouling factor, each type of exchanger has its own"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Fouling Factor<\/strong><\/a> is a subject that periodically comes back into the spotlight, a subject that we\u2019ve indeed already treated in other videos in our Tempco YouTube channel<\/a> and from the pages of this blog. Fouling Factor in plate heat exchangers<\/strong><\/a> is in fact a crucial element to determine the sizing of the exchanger upon the conditions of a certain application.<\/p>\n

The occasion to go back on it was given by a recent experience for an application made for a customer, who requested a fouling factor with a value usually related to shell and tube exchangers<\/a>. The results were utterly deadly, because sizing the exchanger using fouling factor values suitable for a shell and tube exchanger led to a slowdown of the speeds of fluids<\/strong> inside the exchanger and therefore to an increase of the fouling, drastically reducing the efficiency of the thermal transfer rate<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

The solution to the problem has been to remove 30% of the plates from the exchanger<\/strong>, getting back to a fouling factor value more suitable for a plate heat exchanger.<\/p>\n