@Article{hmt.9.31,
AUTHOR = {Stephen K. Ogbonnaya, Oluseyi O. Ajayi},
TITLE = {FOULING PHENOMENON AND ITS EFFECT ON HEAT EXCHANGER:  A REVIEW},
JOURNAL = {Frontiers in Heat and Mass Transfer},
VOLUME = {9},
YEAR = {2017},
NUMBER = {1},
PAGES = {1--12},
URL = {http://www.techscience.com/fhmt/v9n1/53511},
ISSN = {2151-8629},
ABSTRACT = {Heat exchangers as a heat transfer device has gained wide applications across different levels of domestic and industrial set-ups. Various studies have 
been carried out to study, analyse and predict its performance. However, one major phenomenon that limits heat exchanger performance is attributed 
to fouling. Based on this, various studies and approaches have focused on reduction, elimination and mitigation of fouling. This study therefore 
focused on this. It reviewed several attempts that have been carried out to understand and mitigate the incidents of fouling in heat exchangers. The 
study found that despite the existing models developed towards understanding fouling, there is no single model that has provided an accurate 
prediction of fouling in all the different types of heat exchangers. Also, majority of existing results have limited applications and some of the 
solutions are only peculiar to particular type of heat exchanger. Further to this, majority of the study results only pointed to small scale laboratory test 
schemes and there is absence of in-situ measurements that predicts actual (real life) service performance.},
DOI = {10.5098/hmt.9.31}
}