Heat Exchanger Design Handbook 1998 (HEDH 1998) Five-Volume Set

First published in 1983, the Heat Exchanger Design Handbook (HEDH) is well known in both industrial and academic circles as the source of information and guidance on the thermal and mechanical of heat exchangers and on the associated heat transfer phenomena and phyiscal property data. The objectives of its founders were to create a unique collection of information that could be continually improved and updated so as to serve as a prime source of information in support of design practice and the teaching of design in this area. Begell House, Inc. is now further fulfilling those early objectives with the publication of a revised and updated Heat Exchanger Design Handbook 1998 (HEDH 1998). It is the aim of the editors and publisher to continue to provide a service to the user by regularly reviewing and updating the material in the future.

HEDH consists of five parts:

1. Part 1 (Heat Exchanger Theory): This Part describes heat exchanger types and defines quantitative relationships for solution of the equation for heat balance and mean temperature difference. It contains a unique collection of charts for mean temperature difference in industrial heat exchanger configurations. Material added since the 1983 edition includes information on pinch technology for heat exchangers network design and on entropy minimization.
   
2. Part 2 (Fluid Mechanics and Heat Transfer): This Part provides the basic information on topics such as single and two-phase fluid flow, convective heat transfer, radiative heat transfer, condensation, boiling, etc. New material added since the 1983 edition includes information on finite difference and finite element methods, direct contact heat transfer and finned surfaces. Much of the original material has been modified and updated.
   
3. Part 3 (Thermal and Hydraulic Design of Heat Exchangers): Following a general introduction to heat exchanger design, specific sections deal with the full gamut of heat exchanger ranging from shell-and-tube heat exchangers to cooling towers, from reboilers to condensers and from agitated vessels to furnaces. New material added since the 1983 edition includes sections on operational aspects of heat exchangers, on direct contact heat exchangers, on waste heat boilers, etc. Again, many of the original sections have been updated.
   
4. Part 4 (Mechanical Design of Heat Exchangers): This Part covers basic mechanical principles, materials of construction, analysis of design codes, testing and inspection, costing, flanges, tube-to-tubesheet attachment, etc. New Sections which have been added since the 1983 edition include ones on the mechanical design of plate heat exchangers, on insulation and external protection, on bolting, on gaskets, etc. The Section on design codes has been updated to take account of changes in these and new versions of many of the other original Sections have been issued.
   
5. Part 5 (Physical Properties): The obtaining of phyiscal data on the materials of construction heat exchangers and on the fluids passing through them has long been one of the most troublesome aspects of the design process. Part 5 addresses this problem by providing background information on physical properties and, perhaps more importantly, by presenting wide-ranging tabular data on a variety of substances. Since the 1983 edition, extensive additions have been made to the data collection; for instance, the data tables for saturation properties now cover 170 substances, nearly three times the original number.