Plate Heat Exchangers: Design, Applications and Performance
Plate Heat Exchangers: Design, Applications and Performance gives an introduction to and a description of the historical development of plate heat exchangers (PHE). Various types of PHEs and their application areas discussed. Limitations and opportunities clearly demonstrated. Analysis of the thermal and hydraulic performance presented and various correlations based on experimental investigations provided. Two-phase situations, particularly condensation and evaporation, covered, Practical issues like fouling and gasketing materials discussed. Modern methods for experimental and computational investigations reviewed. Research needs are discussed.
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Plate Heat Exchangers: Design, Applications and Performance
- Preface
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- Basic features and development of plate heat
- Construction and operation
- Industrial applications
- Materials and manufacturing
- Basic design methods
- Single- and multi-pass flow arrangement
- Thermal-hydraulic performance in single-phase flows
- Thermal-hydraulic performance in condensers and evaporators
- Fouling, corrosion, and erosion
- Extended design and operation issues
- Appendix
- Index
The heat exchange process between two or more streams at different temperatures occurs in numerous industrial, commercial, and domestic applications and is usually effected in some type of a heat exchanger. Avaried set of heat exchangers, spanning almost the entire spectrum of shape, size, transfer mode, and other features can be found in the process, power, petroleum, transportation, air conditioning, refrigeration, cryogenics, and biomedical industries, among others.
The cooling tower is an example of a direct contact type heat exchanger. In transmural heat exchangers, a wall (tubular, plate, or some other non-circular geometry) separates the hot and cold fluids streams, and heat exchange between them takes place across this interface.
The competitive pressures of the global market and the growing urgency for energy conservation and reduction of environmental degradation have placed a greater emphasis on the use of high efficiency heat exchangers.
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