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In a fuel system, the oil to fuel heat exchanger allows:

fuel heating as required whenever fuel filter clogging is detected
fuel cooling so as to prevent vapor creation likely to unprime nozzles
jet engine oil cooling through thermal exchange with fuel flowing from tanks
automatic fuel heating by the engine oil so as to prevent icing in fuel filter