Heat Exchanger Equipment Field Manual, 1st Edition

Key Features

• Step-by-step procedure on how to design, perform in-shop and in-field inspections and repairs, perform alterations and re-rate equipment
• Select the correct heat transfer equipment for a particular application
• Apply heat transfer principles to design, select and specify heat transfer equipment
• Evaluate the performance of heat transfer equipment and recommend solutions to problems
• Control schemes for typical heat transfer equipment application

Heat Exchanger Equipment Field Manual, 1st Edition

Table of Contents

Heat Exchanger Field Manual

Part One Heat Transfer Equipment

1. Typical Process Heating and Cooling Applications
2. Basic Heat Transfer Theory

 Fluid Properties
     Heat Transfer principles
          LMTD Determination
          Overall Heat Transfer Coefficient
          Process Heat Duty
               Sensible Heat
               Latent heat
               Heat of Vaporization
          Inside/Outside Film Coefficient
          Fouling Factors

Part Two Configurations

3. Heat Exchanger Configurations

TEMA Considerations
     Shell-and-Tube
     Pipe-in-Pipe
     Hair-Pin
     Compact Heat Exchangers
          Plate-and-Frame
          Printed Circuit
          Welded Plate
     Brazed Aluminum Exchangers
     Cold Box
     Fired Equipment
          Furnace type
          Firetube
               Indirect Fired Heaters
               Direct Fired Heaters
     Waste-Heat
     Typical control schemes

4. Fain-Fan Air Coolers

Induced Draft
 Forced Draft

5. Equipment Selection and Sizing

Part Three Troubleshooting and Maintenance

6. Operating Problems
7. Typical Control Schemes