Description
Review heat transfer principles with a direct focus on process equipment design Design, rate, and specify shell and tube, plate, and hairpin heat exchangers Design, rate, and specify air coolers with plain or finned tubes Design, rate, and specify different types of condensers with tube or shellside condensation for pure fluids or multicomponent mixtures Understand the principles and correlations of boiling heat transfer, with their limits on and applications to different types of reboiler design Apply correlations for fired heater ratings, for radiant and convective zones, and calculate fuel efficiency Obtain a set of useful Excel worksheets for process heat transfer calculations Dr. Eduardo Cao is a professor of Heat Transfer Unit Operation at the Chemical Engineering Departments of Buenos Aires University and ITBA (Instituto Tecnologico de Buenos Aires). Ch1. Introduction Ch2. Heat Transfer Fundamentals Ch3. Heat Conduction in Solids Ch4. Convection Ch5. Fundamentals of Heat Transfer Between Fluids Ch6. Shell-and-Tube Heat Exchangers Ch7. Thermal Design of Shell-and-Tube Heat Exchangers Ch8. Finned Tubes Ch9. Plate and Frame Heat Exchangers Ch10. Condensation of Vapors Ch11. Boiling Ch12. Thermal Radiation Ch13. Process Fired Heaters Appendix A. Concepts and Distillation Appendix B. LMTD Correction Factors for E-Shell Heat Exchangers Appendix C. LMTD Correction Factors for Air Coolers Appendix D. Tube Count Tables Appendix E. Tube Layout Appendix F. Fouling Factors Appendix G. Typical Heat Transfer Coefficients Appendix H. Dimensions of Tubes According to BWG Standard Appendix I. Physical Properties of Pure Substances Appendix J. Heat Exchanger Data Sheet Appendix K. Unit Conversions Index
