Heat Transfer Applications for the Practicing Engineer

This book serves as a training tool for individuals in industry andacademia involved with heat transfer applications. Although theliterature is inundated with texts emphasizing theory andtheoretical derivations, the goal of this book is to present thesubject of heat transfer from a strictly pragmatic point of view. The book is divided into four Parts: Introduction, Principles,Equipment Design Procedures and Applications, and ABET-relatedTopics. The first Part provides a series of chapters concerned withintroductory topics that are required when solving most engineeringproblems, including those in heat transfer. The second Part of thebook is concerned with heat transfer principles. Topics thatreceive treatment include Steady-state Heat Conduction,Unsteady-state Heat Conduction, Forced Convection, Free Convection,Radiation, Boiling and Condensation, and Cryogenics. Part three(considered the heart of the book) addresses heat transferequipment design procedures and applications. In addition toproviding a detailed treatment of the various types of heatexchangers, this part also examines the impact of entropycalculations on exchanger design, and operation, maintenance andinspection (OM&I), plus refractory and insulation effects. Theconcluding Part of the text examines ABET (Accreditation Board forEngineering and Technology) related topics of concern, includingeconomies and finance, numerical methods, open-ended problems,ethics, environmental management, and safety and accidentmanagement.