This book offers a comprehensive overview of the latest technological advancements in heat exchangers, providing valuable insights for researchers, engineers, and students in related fields. It investigates the latest developments and practical applications across various sectors, depicting both foundational concepts and emerging trends. The book is structured into three sections: “Phase-Change Material (PCM) Heat Exchangers”, “Modeling Methodologies”, and “Material Thermodynamics”. In Section 1, two chapters explore the principles and applications of PCMs, focusing on their role in enhancing thermal management and energy storage. In Section 2, three chapters provide an extensive review of the evolution of different heat exchanger designs and modeling methodologies, highlighting innovation-aided performance improvements. In Section 3, the final chapter investigates the practical aspects of heat transfer in thermal materials, emphasizing optimization techniques and real-world applications. Edited by Peixin Dong, a recognized expert from Hong Kong ITF-Talent Hub 2024, and Xin Sui, a senior researcher/engineer, this book serves as an essential resource for anyone involved in studying and utilizing heat exchanger technologies. Whether you are looking to understand the latest research, explore new design methodologies, or apply advanced heat transfer techniques, this volume offers the insights and knowledge required to stay at the forefront of the field. Innovative Heat Exchanger Technologies, Developments and Applications is your gateway to understanding the future of heat exchanger technology and its impact on diverse industries.

Handbook for Transversely Finned Tubes Heat Exchangers Design contains detailed experimental data, correlations, and design methods for designing and improving the performance of finned tube heat exchangers. It covers the three main types, circular finned, square finned, and helical finned tube bundles. Based on extensive experimental studies and tested at leading design and research institutions, this handbook provides an extensive set of materials for calculating and designing convective surfaces from transversely finned tubes, with a particular emphasis on power plant applications. Provides a design manual for calculating heat transfer and aerodynamic resistance of convective heating surfaces fabricated in the form of tube bundles with transverse circular, square and helical fins Presents calculations for finned surfaces operating under conditions of clean and dust-laden flows alike, including finned convective heating surfaces of boilers Includes a fully solved exercise at the end of the book, illustrating the top-down approach specially oriented to power plant heat exchangers

This book presents contributions from renowned experts addressing research and development related to the two important areas of heat exchangers, which are advanced features and applications. This book is intended to be a useful source of information for researchers, postgraduate students, academics, and engineers working in the field of heat exchangers research and development.

Design and Operation of heat Exchangers and Their Networks presents a comprehensive and detailed analysis on the thermal design methods for the most common types of heat exchangers, with a focus on their networks, simulation procedures for their operations, and measurement of their thermal performances. The book addresses the fundamental theories and principles of heat transfer performance of heat exchangers and their applications and then applies them to the use of modern computing technology. Topics discussed include cell methods for condensers and evaporators, dispersion models for heat exchangers, experimental methods for the evaluation of heat exchanger performance, and thermal calculation algorithms for multi-stream heat exchangers and heat exchanger networks. Includes MATLAB codes to illustrate how the technologies and methods discussed can be easily applied and developed. Analyses a range of different models, applications, and case studies in order to reveal more advanced solutions for industrial applications. Maintains a strong focus on the fundamental theories and principles of the heat transfer performance of heat exchangers and their applications for complex flow arrangement.

Heat Exchanger Design Guide: A Practical Guide for Planning, Selecting and Designing of Shell and Tube Exchangers takes users on a step-by-step guide to the design of heat exchangers in daily practice, showing how to determine the effective driving temperature difference for heat transfer. Users will learn how to calculate heat transfer coefficients for convective heat transfer, condensing, and evaporating using simple equations. Dew and bubble points and lines are covered, with all calculations supported with examples. This practical guide is designed to help engineers solve typical problems they might encounter in their day-to-day work, and will also serve as a useful reference for students learning about the field. The book is extensively illustrated with figures in support of the text and includes calculation examples to ensure users are fully equipped to select, design, and operate heat exchangers. Covers design method and practical correlations needed to design practical heat exchangers for process application Includes geometrical calculations for the tube and shell side, also covering boiling and condensation heat transfer Explores heat transfer coefficients and temperature differences Designed to help engineers solve typical problems they might encounter in their day-to-day work, but also ideal as a useful reference for students learning about the field

Heat transfer enhancement in single-phase and two-phase flow heat exchangers in important in such industrial applications as power generating plant, process and chemical industry, heating, ventilation, air conditioning and refrigeration systems, and the cooling of electronic equipment. Energy savings are of primary importance in the design of such systems, leading to more efficient, environmentally friendly devices. This book provides invaluable information for such purposes.