TY - CHAP AU - Laura L. Castro Gómez ED - Laura Castro Gómez ED - Víctor Manuel Velázquez Flores Y1 - 2019-01-09 PY - 2019 T1 - Introductory Chapter: Heat Exchangers N2 - Heat exchangers are important devices for engineering, research, and industry. Because of this, any improvement helps to optimize the whole process. Opportunity areas may be found in design, materials, or working fluids. In this sense, the present book compiles some advances in the matter of design (three chapters) and working fluids (one chapter). An introductory chapter also is presented. BT - Advances in Heat Exchangers SP - Ch. 1 UR - https://doi.org/10.5772/intechopen.83376 DO - 10.5772/intechopen.83376 SN - 978-1-78985-074-1 PB - IntechOpen CY - Rijeka Y2 - 2024-04-26 ER -