heat exchanger
Noun
Meaning
device that transfers heat from one liquid to another without allowing them to mix
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A good heat exchanger can drop 95 °C wort to 20 °C while warming the cooling medium from about 10 °C to 80 °C.
An air conditioner used a heat exchanger to dump heat from the cockpit into the fuel prior to combustion.
A panel mounted on the home's roof absorbs solar heat that is used to warm a heat exchanger.
In this form of Geothermal, a Geothermal Heat Pump and Ground-coupled heat exchanger are used together to move heat energy into the earth (for cooling) and out of the earth (for heating) on a varying seasonal basis.
A plate heat exchanger has many ridged plates, which form two separate paths.
A variety of heat exchanger designs are used in breweries, with the most common a plate-style.