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Heat Exchangers: Selection, Rating, and Thermal Design, Fourth Edition covers the basics of heat exchanger technology, focusing on selection, thermal-hydraulic design, and rating. Designed for student readers, this edition adds coverage of micro-scale heat transfer, and updated coverage of compact, gasketed, and micro-scale heat exchangers.
List of contents
1. Classification of Heat Exchangers 2. Basic Design Methods of Heat Exchangers 3. Forced Convection Correlations for the Single-Phase Side of Heat Exchangers 4. Heat Exchanger Pressure Drop and Pumping Power 5. Micro/Nano Heat Transfer 6. Fouling of Heat Exchangers 7. Double-Pipe Heat Exchangers 8. Design Correlations for Condensers and Evaporators 9. Shell-and-Tube Heat Exchangers 10. Compact Heat Exchangers 11. Gasketed-Plate Heat Exchangers 12. Condensers and Evaporators 13. Polymer Heat Exchangers
About the author
Sadik Kakaç is a distinguished scientist and educator, and currently is a professor of mechanical engineering at TOBB University of Economics and Technology in Ankara, Turkey, and an Emeritus Professor at the University of Miami (Florida). Dr. Kakaç earned master's degrees in mechanical engineering and nuclear engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and a Ph.D. from the Victoria University of Manchester. In 2013 he was made an Honorary Member of ASME. Dr. Kakac is the author of numerous successful books in the areas of heat transfer and thermal engineering.
Hongtan Liu (PhD, University of Miami) is professor of Mechanical Engineering, and the director of the Dorgan Solar Energy and Fuel Cell Laboratory, at the University of Miami, Florida. He is also an Adjunct Professor at the Beijing Jiao Tong University, China. Dr. Liu's research interests include PEM Fuel Cells, Direct Methanol Fuel Cells, Solar Energy, Hydrogen Energy, Storage Energy, and Clean Energy.
Anchasa Pramuanjaroenkij, Ph.D., is an Associate Professor of Engineering at Kasetsart University, Thailand. She has also served as Acting Assistant to the President for Public Relations and Organizational Communication, Chalermphrakiat Sakon Nakhon Province Campus.
Summary
Heat Exchangers: Selection, Rating, and Thermal Design, Fourth Edition covers the basics of heat exchanger technology, focusing on selection, thermal-hydraulic design, and rating. Designed for student readers, this edition adds coverage of micro-scale heat transfer, and updated coverage of compact, gasketed, and micro-scale heat exchangers.
