We were changing heat exchanger pipe material from c/s to s/s due to being advised that carbon steel will quickly contaminate the DI water. We now were asked to investigate making heat exchanger using copper pipe since the Induction power supply vendor rutinely runs DI water in copper manifold...
We designed a fin-tube heat exchanger assy using carbon steel pipe and fins. Our Customer has now advised he plans on running DI water in this water circuit. The water will probably enter heat exchanger tubing bundle (12 tubes x 120"lg) at 45-60F and exit at 100-110F after absorbing transferred...
