Heavier crude oil, tighter environmental regulations and increased heavy-end upgrading in the petroleum industry are leading to the increased demand for hydrogen in oil refineries. Hence, hydrotreating and hydrocracking processes now play increasingly important roles in modern refineries....

The mathematical model of plate heat exchanger (PHE) is developed using decomposition of the plate on its main corrugated field, which cause major effect on heat transfer, and distribution zone, which influences mostly the hydraulic performance. Model is validated on experimental data for some...