Heat Transfer Book Recomendations

[khardy]

Can anybody please recommend an practical book on heat transfer. Heat transfer is generally outside my field but once in a while I get involved in a heat transfer problems. I'm most interested in heat losses through vessels, pipe lines, and tank coils. I'm looking for practical information that can be used easily by your typical PE. Something with heat transfer coefficients for typical applications.

thanks,

ken

 

[SomptingGuy]

Engineering Thermodynamics: Work and Heat Transfer
Rogers, Mayhew

The book I always wished I'd bought as a student. Instead I bought the recommended text and hated it. The above book is really good in my view.

- Steve

 

[SNORGY]

See also this thread and thank vpl.

thread391-277509


Regards,

SNORGY.

 

[vpl]

You beat me to it, Snorgy. Though there is no need to thank me -- I didn't write it and I'm hardly the first person to have referenced it.

Patricia Lougheed

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[SomptingGuy]

Oops, a bit of déjà écrit there. Sorry.

- Steve

 

[SNORGY]

Perhaps, vpl, but...

(1) You probably could have written it;
(2) It was your thread that led me to getting my own copy of it.

Regards,

SNORGY.

 

[tesser]

I used to find that Kern's book 'Process Heat Transfer' was pretty useful.

Also you might find something useful on the Spirax Sarco website 'steam engineering tutorials'

 

[davefitz]

I think Frank Kreith's texts are a great primer for most engineers.

 

[khardy]

Thank you all for you input. However, these suggestion appear to be text books aimed at students. I'm really looking for a reference book for a field engineer that would have tables of heat transfer coefficients for various real-world applications. For example, heat loss in buried pipes, heat loss in pipe emersed in tanks, heat losses in through insulated and non-insulated tanks.

I already understand the basic concepts of hat transfer.

 

[ione]

“Predict storage-tank heat transfer precisely", by Jimmy Kumana and Samir Kothari, Chemical Engineering magazine 1982

Regards

 

[SNORGY]

GPSA & Perry's offer some good and reliable data.

The article alluded to by ione is a very good one. I found a copy and it's near the top in my archives of stuff.

Regards,

SNORGY.

 

[sprinkler1000]

I had to study themodynamics on my own and have found the book by Yunus Cengel and Boles very useful and well explained (two books).
No much integration knowledge needed.
I really recommend it.

 

[vpl]

As a working professional, the two books that I have in my office that get opened with some regularity are "Principles of Heat Transfer" by Kreith and "Heat Transfer - Professional Version" by Linden.

Yes they're textbooks. There's still a lot of good stuff in them.

Patricia Lougheed

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