evaporator
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- Instance of
- heating, ventilation, and air conditioning
- Subclass of
- machine
- Image
- Evaporator.jpg
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- Evaporators
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- Category:Evaporators
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Encyclopedic overview
17 sectionsContents
- Uses
- Air conditioning and refrigeration
- Food industry and synthetic chemistry
- Chemical engineering
- Marine
- Energetic
- Types of evaporators
- Rotary evaporator
- Natural/forced circulation evaporator
- Falling film evaporator
- Rising film (long tube vertical) evaporator
- Climbing and falling-film plate evaporator
- Multiple-effect evaporators
- Agitated thin film evaporators
- Problems
- See also
- References
thumb|An industrial evaporator used in a chemical plant in Turkey.
An evaporator is a type of heat exchanger device that facilitates evaporation by utilizing conductive and convective heat transfer, which provides the necessary thermal energy for phase transition from liquid to vapour. Within evaporators, a circulating liquid is exposed to an atmospheric or reduced pressure environment causing it to boil at a lower temperature compared to normal atmospheric boiling.
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