Heat Exchanger Design Handbook, Third Edition is a three-volume set that provides a comprehensive review on heat exchanger selection, design, installation, commissioning and operation, and maintenance and performance in-service.
Volume I presents heat exchanger classification, applications, thermohydraulic fundamentals, thermal design, and construction details of various heat exchangers. Volume II discusses mechanical designs, materials selection, fabrication methods and quality control, inspection and non-destructive examination during manufacturing, and manufacturing methods such as mechanical fabrication, brazing, and soldering. Volume III provides details on heat exchanger installation, commissioning, operation and performance monitoring, thermal power plant, boiler and condenser, tube failures, and repair practices. The new edition includes recent advances in the selection, design, construction, operation, and maintenance of heat exchangers.
This three-volume set serves as a useful reference for researchers, graduate students, and engineers in the field of heat exchanger design, including pressure vessel designers and manufacturers.
Volume I. 1. Heat Exchangers: Introduction, Classification, and Selection. 2. Heat Exchanger Thermohydraulic Fundamentals and Thermal Design of Heat Exchangers. 3. Compact Heat Exchangers. 4. Shell and Tube Heat Exchanger Design. 5. Boiling, Condensation and Steam Generation. 6. Regenerators and Waste Heat Recovery Devices. 7. Plate Heat Exchangers and Spiral Plate Heat Exchangers. 8. Heat Transfer Augmentation. Volume II. 1. Mechanical Design of Pressure Vessels and Shell and Tube Heat Exchanger. 2. Material Selection and Fabrication. 3. Quality Control and Quality Assurance, Inspection, and Nondestructive Testing. 4. Fabrication of the Shell and Tube Heat Exchanger, Brazing and Soldering Of Compact Heat Exchanger. Volume III. 1. Flow-Induced Vibration of Shell and Tube Heat Exchangers. 2. Fouling. 3. Corrosion. 4. Boiler, Thermal Power Plant and Heat Exchangers of Feed Water and Cooling Water Systems. 5. Heat Exchanger Installation, Operation, and Maintenance.
Biography
Kuppan Thulukkanam, Indian Railway Service of Mechanical Engineers (IRSME), Ministry of Railways, retired as Principal Executive Director, CAMTECH, Gwalior, RDSO. He has authored an article in the ASME Journal of Pressure Vessel Technology. His various roles have included being an experienced administrator, staff recruitment board chairman for a zonal railway, and joint director, Engine Development Directorate of RDSO, Lucknow (Min. of Railways). He was also involved in design and performance evaluation of various types of heat exchangers used in diesel electric locomotives and has served as chief workshop engineer for the production of rolling stocks like coaches, diesel and electric multiple units, wagons, electric locomotive, etc. and as Director, Public Grievances (DPG) to the Minister of State for Railways, Railway Board, Government of India. Kuppan received his BE (Hons) in 1980 from the PSG College of Technology, Coimbatore, Madras University, and his MTech in production engineering in 1982 from the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, India.
