Handbook for Transversely Finned Tube Heat Exchanger Design

Handbook for Transversely Finned Tubes Heat Exchangers Design contains detailed experimental data, correlations, and design methods for designing and improving the performance of finned tube heat exchangers. It covers the three main types, circular finned, square finned, and helical finned tube bundles.

Based on extensive experimental studies and tested at leading design and research institutions, this handbook provides an extensive set of materials for calculating and designing convective surfaces from transversely finned tubes, with a particular emphasis on power plant applications.

Provides a design manual for calculating heat transfer and aerodynamic resistance of convective heating surfaces fabricated in the form of tube bundles with transverse circular, square and helical finsPresents calculations for finned surfaces operating under conditions of clean and dust-laden flows alike, including finned convective heating surfaces of boilersIncludes a fully solved exercise at the end of the book, illustrating the top-down approach specially oriented to power plant heat exchangers

1 GENERAL STATEMENTS

2 HEAT TRANSFER CALCULATION

2.1 Basic Equations

2.2 Overall Heat Transfer Coefficient

2.3 Reduced Heat Transfer Coefficient

2.4 Convective Heat Transfer Coefficient

2.5 Coefficient of Heat Transfer from the Wall to the Internal Medium

2.6 Contamination Factor and Thermal Efficiency

2.7 Average Temperature Difference

3 CALCULATION OF AERODYNAMIC RESISTANCE

4 CALCULATION OF HYDRAULIC RESISTANCE

5 CALCULATION OF TEMPERATURE MODE OF FINNED TUBES

6 STRENGTH DESIGN

7 EXAMPLES OF CALCULATIONS