Heat exchangers

piece of equipment built for efficient heat transfer from one medium to another

device used to condense a substance from its gaseous to its liquid state

hardware component

thumb|right|Front-mounted air-to-air intercooler thumb|Top-mounted air-to-liquid intercooler (the silver cuboid-shaped part) on a BMW S55 turbocharged engine

heat exchanger for space heating

heat-exchanging component of liquid cooled engines

class of heat exchanger designs

type of heat exchanger

type of heat exchanger

methodology for minimising energy consumption of chemical processes

thumb|400px|Types of recuperator, or cross plate heat exchanger A recuperator is a counter-flow energy recovery heat exchanger that recovers waste heat in the supply and exhaust air streams of an air-handling system or in the exhaust gases of an industrial process. Generally, they extract heat from the exhaust and use it to preheat air entering the combustion system, reducing the need for fuel and boosting the system's energy efficiency.

underground heat exchanger loop that can capture or dissipate heat to or from the ground

steam engine component which condenses excess steam for reuse as water

compact heat exchanger used in liquid cooling to transfer heat from a small component to the circulating cooling fluid

Reboilers are heat exchangers typically used to provide heat to the bottom of industrial distillation columns. They boil the liquid from the bottom of a distillation column to generate vapors which are returned to the column to drive the distillation separation. The heat supplied to the column by the reboiler at the bottom of the column is removed by the condenser at the top of the column.

type of energy recovery heat exchanger

energy recovery heat exchanger