heat exchanger
noun
: a device (such as an automobile radiator) for transferring heat from one fluid to another without allowing them to mix
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Curtis says the system-level heat exchanger does the job of the A/C more efficiently, supplying a further 20 percent energy reduction.
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Charles Q. Choi, IEEE Spectrum, 13 June 2024
In the control rooms governing the active reactors—units 1, 2, and 3—the staff checked the cooling systems that remove residual heat from the reactor cores by cycling water through heat exchangers filled with seawater.
—IEEE Spectrum, 31 Oct. 2011
With the power out, the pumps were no longer channeling water from unit 1’s pressure vessel through the cooling system’s heat exchangers, and the ferociously hot fuel rods were boiling the water into steam.
—IEEE Spectrum, 31 Oct. 2011
The Journal says the cause for delay involves a temperature-regulating part called a heat exchanger.
—Melvin Backman, Quartz, 3 May 2024
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Charles Q. Choi, IEEE Spectrum, 13 June 2024
In the control rooms governing the active reactors—units 1, 2, and 3—the staff checked the cooling systems that remove residual heat from the reactor cores by cycling water through heat exchangers filled with seawater.
—IEEE Spectrum, 31 Oct. 2011
With the power out, the pumps were no longer channeling water from unit 1’s pressure vessel through the cooling system’s heat exchangers, and the ferociously hot fuel rods were boiling the water into steam.
—IEEE Spectrum, 31 Oct. 2011
The Journal says the cause for delay involves a temperature-regulating part called a heat exchanger.
—Melvin Backman, Quartz, 3 May 2024
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heat exchanger
noun
heat ex·chang·er
-iks-ˌchānj-ər 
: a device (as in an apparatus for extracorporeal blood circulation) for transferring heat from one fluid to another without allowing them to mix
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