Design and Operation of Heat Exchangers

General Problems.- Selected problems in heat exchanger design.- Compact new formulae for mean temperature difference and efficiency of heat exchangers.- The multi-dimensional thermalhydraulics code TRIO applications to heat exchangers.- Heat exchanger control by stream(s) by-pass.- Shell and Tube Heat Exchangers.- Effects of unequal transfer area in multi-pass heat exchangers.- Variable pitch tube layout concept for shell and tube heat exchanger.- Design improvements of a shell and tube heat exchanger based on practical experience and numerical analysis.- Simple algorithms for optimization of shell and tube heat exchangers.- Dispersion model for divided-flow heat exchanger.- Heat exchanger in transient conditions.- Cross-Flow Heat Exchangers.- Approximate equations for the design of cross-flow heat exchangers.- Numerical analysis of cross-flow heat exchangers in order to establish a new design method.- Improvement of fin-tube heat exchangers by longitudinal vortex generators.- Numerical studies of a compact fin-tube heat exchanger.- Heat transfer and pressure drop in single rows.- Pressure losses in tube bundles of close spacings.- Improvement of existing fuel-air heat exchangers of modern air-breathing engines.- A model for predicting the performance of domestic gas-fired water heaters.- Plastic heat exchangers.- Condition monitoring of air cooled heat exchangers.- Plate Heat Exchangers.- Approximate theory of spiral heat exchanger.- Thermal hydraulic performances of plate and frame heat exchangers - The CEPAJ software.- Flow distribution in plate heat exchangers and consequences on thermal and hydraulic performances.- Welded plate heat exchangers as refrigerants dry-ex evaporators.- Development of a compact heat exchanger for gas turbine heat recovery.- Highperformance titanium plate fin heat exchanger using a novel manufacturing process.- Regenerators.- Optimal thermal control of regenerative heat exchangers.- A simplified model for a helical heat exchanger for long-term energy storage in soil.- Multiphase Systems.- Pressure drop during condensation in vertical tubes.- Intensification of heat transfer in horizontal-tube vapour condensers.- Measurements and modelling: a 350 MWe power plant condenser.- The computer aided design of steam surface condensers.- Some comments on the use of mixed bundles of smooth and enhanced tubes in reboilers.- The heat pipe heat exchangers: design, technology and applications.- Performance analysis and test of a two-phase closed thermosyphon heat exchanger.- An application of semi-empirical turbulence theory to the hydrodynamics and heat exchange in gas-liquid foam.- Prediction of heat transfer rates in a liquid-liquid direct-contact heat exchanger.