Heat transfer enhancement has seen rapid development and widespread use in both conventional and emerging technologies. Improvement of heat transfer fluids requires a balance between experimental and numerical work in nanofluids and new refrigerants. Recognizing the uncertainties in development of new heat transfer fluids, Advances in New Heat Transfer Fluids: From Numerical to Experimental Techniques contains both theoretical and practical coverage.

Amidst tightening requirements for eliminating CFC's, HCFC's, halons, and HFC's from use in air conditioning and heat pumps, the search began for replacements that are environmentally benign, non-flammable, and similar to the banned refrigerants in system-level behavior. Although refrigerant mixtures have long been used in commercial products to improve environmental impact, there are few resources available that address the use of fluid mixtures in vapor compression systems. Vapor Compression Heat Pumps with Refrigerant Mixtures provides a comprehensive background and thorough discussion of the thermodynamics of working fluid mixtures and their applications. It covers the fundamentals of various refrigeration cycles as well as a basic background in the thermodynamics related to these mixtures. It also provides important data on heat transfer and pressure drop correlations as well as critical operational issues related to refrigerant mixtures.

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.

This comprehensive book is a valuable and readable reference text and source for anyone who wishes to learn about food cooling applications and methods of analysis of the heat transfer during these applications.

Contains the papers presented at the industrial sessions at the 1994 Brighton Heat Transfer Conference. This practical volume is a companion to The Main Proceedings and is available at a special price when the seven research tomes are purchased.