Performances of Plate Heat Exchanger Applied in a Vacuum Evaporating Distiller

Plate Heat Exchanger (PHE) have become popular in chemical, power, food and refrigeration industries due to the efficient heat transfer performance, extremely compact design and flexibility of extend or modify to suit changed duty. In present work, PHE aimed apply in the fresh water generator which installed in ship to desalinate seawater to fresh water use heat from engines. The experiment is proceeded to investigate the heat transfer between cold and hot fluid stream at different flow rate and supply temperature of hot fluid. Another target is the generated fresh water as outcome of the system. PHE is an important part of a condensing or evaporating system. Among many of factors which should be concentrated on, the heat transfer and pressure drop is most important parts during sizing and rating the performance of PHE. One of common assumptions in basic heat exchanger design theory is that fluid is to be distributed uniformly at the inlet of each fluid side and throughout the core. However, in practice, flow mal-distribution is more common and can significantly reduce the heat exchanger performance. In this system the heat transfer part contains corrugated plates and it arranged with U type flow configuration. The main objective of this paper is discussing main conception of plate heat exchanger and applied in vacuum evaporator for product fresh water.