Reccomendations on thermodynamic books 2

[PROTECengr]

It's been a while since i've worked on heat exchangers (years since I last studied it in university), so I am looking to do a little brushing up on the subject. Can anyone reccomend a good book that will cover the areas of:

Heat exchangers - shell and tube, double pipe, air-air, air-fluid

Convection conduction and radiation


Notes are sometimes incomplete or insufficient.

thanks.

 

[phex]

one often cited reference concerning this topic would be this:

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

http://www/ahtt.html

and this:

http://www.wlv.com/products/databook/databook.pdf

if you need more info, do a keyword search. both of the above mentioned links have been mentioned here many times.

hth,
chris.

PS: no stars, others have found these links. just can't find the appropriate posts to give credit.

 

[EdStainless]

It might be worth looking at the industrial standards from TEMA and HEI. They are not very strict about the heat transfer side, but give methods for sizing and all of the mechanical details.

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Corrosion never sleeps, but it can be managed.

http://www.trenttube.com/Trent/tech_form.htm

 

[quark]

Phex mentioned to good free resources. Apart from that, Heat Transfer by JP Holman, Process Heat Transfer by DQ Kern and Heat Transfer by Incropera & Dewitt are the best.

If you don't want to spend much then go with JP Holman.

Regards,

 

[Rich2001]

Another free source of information are the DOE Handbooks at

http://tis.eh.doe.gov/techstds/standard/standard.html

The Wolverine Tube Inc. Engineering Databook suggested by PHEX is very helpful:

http://www.wlv.com/products/databook/databook.pdf

 

[PROTECengr]

Ok, i'll check some of these out. I have a price limit of around 120-150. I did a keyword search and saw someone reccomending a set of books, which was 750 on amazon.com which is just a little much...

I'll take a look at some of these, feel free to reccomend more or comment on other member's reccomendations, I'd like to purchase one that everyone seems to think is good.

Again, thank you

 

[TD2K]

Check out half.com and other other used book sites. Sometimes it takes a while to find the book you want at the price you want but they usually show up.

 

[25362]

Although the question and the useful responses agree in full, not so with the heading asking for books on Thermodynamics, which, as a branch of Physics, deals -among others- with properties of matter, mainly those affected by changes in temperature, and the interconversion of the various forms of energy.

 

[tickle]

One great book on shell and tube heat exchangers is A working guide to S&T HE's by Stanley Yokell.

This book focuses mainly on the mechanical construction of HE's. As far as I know the book is out of print.

 

[arto]

You can get the TEMA standards @

http://www.tema.org/highlig8.html