Innovative Heat Exchangers [Hardcover]

This accessible book presents unconventional technologies in heat exchanger design that have the capacity to provide solutions to major concerns within the process and power-generating industries. Demonstrating the advantages and limits of these innovative heat exchangers, it also discusses micro- and nanostructure surfaces and micro-scale equipment, and introduces pillow-plate, helical and expanded metal baffle concepts. It offers step-by-step worked examples, which provide instructions for developing an initial configuration and are supported by clear, detailed drawings and pictures.

Various types of heat exchangers are available, and they are widely used in all fields of industry for cooling or heating purposes, including in combustion engines. The market in 2012 was estimated to be U$ 42.7 billion and the global demand for heat exchangers is experiencing an annual growth of about 7.8 %. The market value is expected to reach U$ 57.9 billion in 2016, and approach U$ 78.16 billion in 2020.

Providing a valuable introduction to students and researchers, this book offers clear and concise information to thermal engineers, mechanical engineers, process engineers and heat exchanger specialists.

Polymer Film Heat Exchangers.- Polymer Composite Heat Exchangers.- Innovative Design of Micro-structured Plate-and-Frame Heat Exchangers.- Heat Transfer in Evaporation on Micro- and Macro-structured Tubes.- Multi-Stream Plate- and-Frame Heat Exchangers for Condensation and Evaporation.

Since 1994 Prof. Hans-J?rg Bart has been the Chair of Separation Science and Technology at the Technische Universit?t Kaiserslautern, Germany. Prior to this he was head of the Christian Doppler Laboratory of Modelling Reactive Systems in Process Engineering at the University of Technology, Graz, Austria. He has over 30 years of experience in heat and mass transfer in basic unit operations and two-phase flow simulatlc&