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    Stainless Steel Vs Aluminium

    Thanks Daveleo, my problem is fairly basic..... I have measured the performance of the heat exchanger made from 2 mm aluminum but want to recreate it in 1.6 mm stainless steel. How much will the performance degrade? It is a very simple design, an inner round tube with a gas burner inside it...
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    Stainless Steel Vs Aluminium

    I have previously "designed" & built a simple gas to water heat exchanger. That is hot gases passing up a central tube that is surrounded by water and hence the water is heated. The heat exchanger I have is made from 2 mm thick aluminium but I want to create a "Mark II" version, this time from...
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    Camping shower heat exchanger

    A question from a very rusty physics student... pls forgive my lack of knowledge. I'm trying to make a simple heat exchanger to heat water for a camping shower. The heat source will be the car's cooling system. My basic design concept is a coil of copper tube enclosed in a vessel. The vessel...

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