Looking for a Good Heat Exchanger Book 2

[kasei]

I'm a young mechanical engineer. I work in the petrochemical industry and frequently have to deal with heat exchanger maintenance, inspection, and replacements.

I'm looking for a good heat exchanger book to help gain a better understanding. Ideally, it would cover the elementary subjects of heat exchangers before going into great detail like most heat exchanger books.

I would like something that gives answers to questions like:
- Why and how to you roll tubes?
- Why are their notches in the baffles?
- What are the advantages of multiple passes?

 

[gr2vessels]

Some time ago, Patricia Lougheed advised kindly the forum of the Lienhard textbook that can be downloaded (legally and free) here:

http://web.mit.edu/lienhard/

http://www/ahtt.html

A good start.

Cheers,

gr2vessels

 

[vpl]

kasei - Although it's somewhat hard to search on here, if you try forum391 and do a search (even if it's only clicking on the page numbers and reading down the list of titles), you'll find that this question has come up with relative frequency.

gr2vessels - I wasn't the first person to mention the Lienhard book, and probably won't be the last. I think either IRStuff or metengr deserves the credit.

Patricia Lougheed

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[TomBarsh]

It sounds like you want or need a book more so about the mechanical design and construction of heat exchangers, rather than on process design (heat transfer, etc). Heat exchangers built to ASME Section VIII and/or TEMA have a world of minutiae that must be considered for their mechanical design and construction that is well outside the heat transfer realm. I don't think there are too many such books but I have a few in my bookcase here.

"Mechanical Design of Heat Exchangers" by Singh and Soler

This is a really good book and addresses all aspects of design. I believe it's out of print but can be found in used book shops and maybe in foreign (Indian press) editions. The authors are some of the granddaddies of the Code design rules.

"Working with Heat Exchangers" by J.P. Gupta

A unique "question and answer" approach to a textbook. Addresses a lot of process design issues as well as mechanical design and construction.

Of course you should have the TEMA standard available and the ASME Code.

 

[archimedez]

Just to add a note to what Tom has said.

When I first started working with heat exchangers I ask the same question that you have ask. The first book that someone mentioned to me was the one that Tom has mentioned by Gupta. I have found this book to be extremly helpful and it does address a lot of different aspects of heat exchanger design as well as general information.

 

[MechBRR]

I'm not familiar with the books mentioned by other replys, but our office recently purchased "Heat Exchanger Design Handbook" by Kuppan published by CRC Press. It seems to be very thorough on design theory as well as applications. It helped me to understand the theory behind the long, convoluted set of calculations laid out in Sec. VIII Div. 1 Part UHX (Shell and tube heat exchangers).

Another book I've used is a college text. "Design of Fluid Thermal Systems" by Janna published by PWS. It has a few chapters on different types of heat exchangers..the whys and hows of design, but is short on practical application information (like most college texts).