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Shell and tube heat transfer apparatus and a corresponding process of heat transfer employ a fluid flow consisting of non-turbulent boundary-layers adjacent the inner and outer heat exchanger surfaces of the tubes and a non-turbulent core-layer between the boundary-layers and interfacing therewith.

Shell and tube heat transfer apparatus and a corresponding process of heat transfer employ a fluid flow consisting of non-turbulent boundary-layers adjacent the inner and outer heat exchanger surfaces of the tubes and a non-turbulent core-layer between the boundary-layers and interfacing therewith. Interrupter-structures disposed within the tube and shell flow passes and interrupt the full development of the boundary-layers at a multitude of spaced spots, leaving the heat transfer surfaces unaltered, unmodified and uninterrupted, so that the boundary-layers cannot increase in thickness but will partially separate from the surfaces and mix non-turbulently with the core-layer to effect the required heat transfer between the surfaces and the fluid. The interrupter-structure preferably consists of a plurality of rows of spheres, with which the space remote from the heat exchange surface is filled with a space-filling material to prevent the useless flow of fluid in a space not effective for heat transfer. The interrupter structure may also comprise a unitary body of equivalent shape.

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Shell and tube heat exchange apparatus for heat exchange between two fluids comprising: a shell having an inner wall, an inlet to the interior thereof and an outlet therefrom for the passage of a respective fluid through the shell space in the shell interior; at least one tube mounted within the she

Shell and tube heat exchange apparatus for heat exchange between two fluids comprising: a shell having an inner wall, an inlet to the interior thereof and an outlet therefrom for the passage of a respective fluid through the shell space in the shell interior; at least one tube mounted within the shell having an inner and an outer surface and having an inlet to the interior thereof and an outlet therefrom for the passage through the tube interior of a respective fluid, each tube wall constituting a heat exchange wall between the two fluids in the shell interior and the tube interior; fluid flow within the tube interior taking the form of a non-turbulent boundary layer immediately adjacent to the tube inner surface, and a core-layer interfacing with the boundary-layer; a tube-side fluid flow interrupter structure within each tube comprising a plurality of longitudinally extending rows of spheroidal members contacting the inner wall of the passage, the structure interrupting non-turbulently the full development of at least the boundary-layer at the tube inner surface at a plurality of spaced interruption spots, whereby parts of the interrupted boundary-layer will separate non-turbulently from the tube inner surface between the interruption spots and mix with the core layer to effect heat transfer between the tube inner surface, its respective boundary-layer, and the core-layer; and the space between the longitudinally extending rows being filled with a space-filling material to prevent useless flow of fluid in the part of the tube interior remote from the tube inner surface.