At industrial facilities and worksites, heat exchangers are one of the most versatile, durable, and necessary pieces of equipment, and their usefulness isn’t just limited to one industry. The impact of heat exchangers is widespread, as they used for everything from oil refining, to processing food and dairy products, to brewing beer, to propelling large ships across the sea.
Although heat exchangers are used for residential purposes, as well, for our purposes we are going to focus on how they work and why they are so indispensable in an industrial setting. To start with, what, exactly, is an industrial heat exchanger and how does it work?