Process Heat Transfer
Principles, Applications and Rules of Thumb

Solutions to a wide range of standard heat transfer problems using industry standard software tools, supported by an extensive range of heuristics, case studies, and expert knowledge that take the pain and time out of heat exchanger network design challenges.

Robert W. Serth (Author), Thomas Lestina (Author)

9780123971951, Elsevier Science

Hardback, published 10 April 2014

632 pages
27.6 x 21.5 x 3.4 cm, 1.88 kg

Process Heat Transfer is a reference on the design and implementation of industrial heat exchangers. It provides the background needed to understand and master the commercial software packages used by professional engineers in the design and analysis of heat exchangers. This book focuses on types of heat exchangers most widely used by industry: shell-and-tube exchangers (including condensers, reboilers and vaporizers), air-cooled heat exchangers and double-pipe (hairpin) exchangers. It provides a substantial introduction to the design of heat exchanger networks using pinch technology, the most efficient strategy used to achieve optimal recovery of heat in industrial processes.

Heat Conduction; Convective and Radiative Heat Transfer; Heat Exchangers; Design of Double-Pipe Heat Exchangers; Design of Shell and Tube Heat Exchangers; The Delaware Method; The Stream Analysis Method; Heat Exchanger Networks; Boiling Heat Transfer; Reboilers; Condensers; Air-Cooled Heat Exchangers; Appendix

Subject Areas: Heat transfer processes [THN], Thermodynamics & heat [PHH]