Improvement of the technical-economic level of compressor plants entails development and use of more advanced heat exchangers, which account for 0.8-1.5 times the mass of the compressor itself and an average of about 25% of total compressor plant (CP) cost [i]. The basic approaches to upgrading of heat exchangers include intensification of heat transfer by various passive methods [2,3], which make it possible to increase heat rejection from the compressed gas and reduce heat exchanger size and metal input.Establishment of the feasibility of intensifying heat transfer in finned plate heat exchangers, which are more compact and have lower drag than tubular heat exchangers, is of particular interest.
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