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Enhancing the Heat Transfer Efficiency of Seawater

Project Type: Self-Initiated

Project Description

Heat Exchangers are devices that exchange heat from a medium to another. Heat exchangers use a fluid to transfer heat, a common fluid in industry is seawater as it is cheap and easy to get. Seawater based heat exchangers are common in industry, however, efficiency of transferred heat will decrease with time due to fouling Fouling has four main types which are: chemical (scaling). corrosion, biological. and deposition. The heat transfer efficiency of a new seawater based heat exchanger is about 70-80%, however, efficiency can decrease to 40% after some time due to fouling.