Request pdf heat exchanger design plate fin and tube arrangement the plate fin and tube heat exchangers are employed in wide variety of engineering applications particularly in heating . 41 plate fin heat exchangers 7 14 42 fin geometries 14 17 43 flow friction and heat transfer characteristics 17 18 5 rectangular offset fin surface 19 20 design of rectangular offset compact plate fin heat 6 exchanger 21 42 61 design calculation by mangahanic correlation 21 26. 23 arrangement of a plate heat exchanger the simplest types of arrangements of plate heat exchangers are those in which both fluids make just one pass so there is no change in direction of the streams these are known as 1 1 single pass arrangements and there are two types countercurrent and concurrent. The fin and tube heat exchanger in this study the three the schematic shown in figure 1 is a core diagram of different types of the fin design were proposed plate fin plane fin tube heat exchanger with two row tubes along wavy fin and compounded fin and investigated