Heat Transfer in Process Engineering

Heat Transfer in Process Engineering
By Eduardo Cao

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Cutting-edge heat transfer principles and design applications

Apply advanced heat transfer concepts to your chemical, petrochemical, and refining equipment designs using the detailed information contained in this comprehensive volume. Filled with valuable graphs, tables, and charts, Heat Transfer in Process Engineering covers the latest analytical and empirical methods for use with current industry software. Select heat transfer equipment, make better use of design software, calculate heat transfer coefficients, troubleshoot your heat transfer process, and comply with design and construction standards.

Heat Transfer in Process Engineering allows you to:

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Review heat transfer principles with a direct focus on process equipment design
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Design, rate, and specify shell and tube, plate, and hairpin heat exchangers
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Design, rate, and specify air coolers with plain or finned tubes
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Design, rate, and specify different types of condensers with tube or shellside condensation for pure fluids or multicomponent mixtures
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Understand the principles and correlations of boiling heat transfer, with their limits on and applications to different types of reboiler design
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Apply correlations for fired heater ratings, for radiant and convective zones, and calculate fuel efficiency
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Obtain a set of useful Excel worksheets for process heat transfer calculations

Applied Process Design for Chemical and Petrochemical Plants, Volume 3

Applied Process Design for Chemical and Petrochemical Plants, Volume 3, 3rd Edition(Applied Process Design for Chemical and Petrochemical Plants)
by: Ernest E. Ludwig

Description:

This third edition of Applied Process Design for Chemical and Petrochemical Plants, Volume 3, is completely revised and updated throughout to make this standard reference more valuable than ever. It has been expanded by more than 200 pages to include the latest technological and process developments in heat transfer, refrigeration, compression and compression surge drums, and mechanical drivers. Like other volumes in this classic series, this one emphasizes how to apply techniques of process design and how to interpret results into mechanical equipment details. It focuses on the applied aspects of chemical engineering design to aid the design and/or project engineers in rating process requirements, specifying for purchasing purposes, and interpreting and selecting the mechanical equipment needed to satisfy the process functions. Process chemical engineering and mechanical hydraulics are included in the design procedures.

Includes updated information that allows for efficiency and accuracy in daily tasks and operations
Part of a classic series in the industry

Applied Process Design for Chemical and Petrochemical Plants, Volume 2

Applied Process Design for Chemical and Petrochemical Plants, Volume 2, 3rd Edition(Applied Process Design for Chemical and Petrochemical Plants)
by: Ernest E. Ludwig

Description:

This latest edition covers the technical performance and mechanical details of converting the chemical and petrochemical process into appropriate hardware for distillation and packed towers. It incorporates recent advances and major innovations in distillation contacting devices and features new generations of packing. In addition, this new edition reflects the significant progress that has been made in process design techniques in recent years.


Volume 2's example calculation techniques guide in the preparation of preliminary and final rating designs. In some instances, the book includes manufacturers' procedures and notes clearly indicate when manufacturers should verify results.

Covers distillation and packed towers, and contains material on azeotropes and ideal and non-ideal systems
Includes important findings from recent literature to illustrate alternate design methods
New illustrations and rating charts