This e-book is predicated on a course in course of warmth switch that I’ve taught for a few years. The course has been taken by seniors and first-year graduate college students who’ve accomplished an introductory course in engineering warmth switch. Though this background is assumed, almost all college students want some overview earlier than continuing to extra superior materials. Because of this, and additionally to make the e-book self-contained, the primary three chapters present a overview of important materials usually lined in an introductory warmth switch course.Moreover, the e-book is meant to be used by training engineers in addition to college college students, and it has been written with the intention of facilitating self-study. Not like some books on this subject, no try is made herein to cowl your complete panoply of warmth switch tools. As an alternative, the e-book focuses on the kinds of tools most generally used within the chemical course of industries, specifically, shell-and-tube warmth exchangers (together with condensers and reboilers), air-cooled warmth exchangers and double-pipe (hairpin) warmth exchangers. Inside the confines of a single quantity, this method permits an in-depth therapy of the fabric that’s most related from an industrial perspective, and supplies college students with the detailed information wanted for engineering observe.

This method can be in step with the time out there in a one-semester course. Design of double-pipe exchangers is introduced in Chapter 4. Chapters 5–7 comprise a unit coping with shell-and-tube exchangers in operations involving single-phase fluids. Design of shell-and-tube exchangers is roofed in Chapter 5 utilizing the Simplified Delaware technique for shell-side calculations. For pedagogical causes, extra refined strategies for performing shell-side heat-transfer and pressure-drop calculations are introduced individually in Chapter 6 (full Delaware technique) and Chapter 7 (Stream Evaluation technique).

Heat exchanger networks are lined in Chapter 8. I usually current this matter at this level within the course to offer a change of tempo. Nevertheless, Chapter 8 is actually self-contained and can, due to this fact, be lined at any time. Section-change operations are lined in Chapters 9–11. Chapter 9 presents the fundamentals of boiling warmth switch and two-phase move. The latter is encountered in each Chapter 10, which offers with the design of reboilers, and Chapter 11, which covers condensation and condenser design.Design of air-cooled warmth exchangers is introduced in Chapter 12.

The fabric on this chapter is actually self-contained and, therefore, it may be lined at any time. For the reason that major objective of each the e-book and the course is to offer college students with the information and expertise wanted for contemporary industrial observe, pc purposes play an integral function, and the e-book is meant to be used with a number of business software program packages. HEXTRAN (SimSci-Esscor), HTRI Xchanger Suite (Heat Transfer Analysis, Inc.) and the HTFS Suite (Aspen Know-how, Inc.) are used within the e-book, together with HX-Internet (Aspen Know-how, Inc.) for pinch calculations. HEXTRAN affords essentially the most full protection of subjects, because it handles all kinds of warmth exchangers and additionally performs pinch calculations for design of warmth exchanger networks.

It doesn’t carry out mechanical design calculations for shell-and-tube exchangers, nevertheless, nor does it generate detailed tube layouts or setting plans. Moreover, the methodology used by HEXTRAN is predicated on publicly out there know-how and is mostly much less refined than that of the opposite software program packages. The HTRI and HTFS packages use proprietary strategies developed by their respective analysis organizations, and are related of their degree of refinement. HTFS Suite handles all kinds of warmth exchangers; it additionally performs mechanical design calculations and develops detailed tube layouts and setting plans for shell-and-tube exchangers.

Process Heat Transfer. Principles, Applications and Rules of Thumb PDF

Author(s): Robert W. Serth and Thomas Lestina (Auth.)

Publisher: Academic Press, Year: 2014

ISBN: 978-0-12-397195-1

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