Heat exchangers are essential in a wide range of engineering applications, including power plants, automobiles, airplanes, process and chemical industries, and heating, air conditioning and refrigeration systems. Revised and updated with new problem sets and examples, Heat Exchangers: Selection, Rating, and Thermal Design, Third Edition presents a systematic treatment of the various types of heat exchangers, focusing on selection, thermal-hydraulic design, and rating.

Table of Contents

1. Classification of Heat Exchangers

2. Basic Design Methods of Heat Exchangers

3. Forced Convection Correlations for the Single-Phase Side of Heat Exchangers

4. Heat Exchanger Pressure Drop and Pumping Power

5. Micro/Nano Heat Transfer

6. Fouling of Heat Exchangers

7. Double-Pipe Heat Exchangers

8. Design Correlations for Condensers and Evaporators

9. Shell-and-Tube Heat Exchangers

10. Compact Heat Exchangers

11. Gasketed-Plate Heat Exchangers

12. Condensers and Evaporators

13. Polymer Heat Exchangers

About the Authors

Sadik Kakac is a professor of mechanical engineering at the University of Miami, Florida.

 Hongtan Liu is professor and the director of the Dorgan Solar Energy and Fuel Cell Laboratory, also at the University of Miami. 

Anchasa Pramuanjaroenkij is assistant professor at Kasetsart University, Chalermphrakiat Sakon Nakhon Province Campus, Thailand.