Levenspiel Engineering Flow and Heat Exchange

Erscheinungsjahr 2013
ISBN: 978-1-4615-6907-7
Verlag: Springer US
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 366 Seiten, eBook

Reihe: The Plenum Chemical Engineering Series

This volume presents an overview of fluid flow and heat exchange. In the broad sense, fluids are materials which are able to flow under the right conditions. These include all sorts of things: pipeline gases, coal slurries, toothpaste, gases in high-vacuum systems, metallic gold, soups and paints, and, of course, air and water. These materials are very different types of fluids, and so it is important to know the different classifications of fluids, how each is to be analyzed (and these methods are quite different), and where a particular fluid fits into this broad picture. This book treats fluids in this broad sense including flows in packed beds and fluidized beds. Naturally, in so small a volume, we do not go deeply into the study of any particular type of flow, however we do show how to make a start with each. We avoid supersonic flow and the complex subject of multiphase flow where each of the phases must be treated separately. The approach here differs from most introductory books on fluids which focus on the Newtonian fluid and treat it thoroughly, to the exclusion of all else. I feel that the student engineer or technologist preparing for the real world should be introduced to these other topics.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Levenspiel, Octave

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1 / Basic Equations for Flowing Streams.- 2 / Flow of Incompressible Newtonians in Pipes.- 3 / Compressible Flow of Gases.- 4 / Molecular Flow.- 5 / Non-Newtonian Fluids.- 6 / Flow through Packed Beds.- 7 / Flow in Fluidized Beds.- 8 / Solid Particles Falling through Fluids.- 9 / The Three Mechanisms of Heat Transfer: Conduction, Convection, and Radiation.- 10 / Combination of Heat Transfer Resistances.- 11 / Unsteady-State Heating and Cooling of Solid Objects.- 12 / Introduction to Heat Exchangers.- 13 / Recuperators: Through-The-Wall, Nonstoring Exchangers.- 14 / Direct-Contact Gas-Solid Nonstoring Exchangers.- 15 / Heat Regenerators: Direct-Contact Heat Storing Exchangers Using a Batch of Solids.- 16 / Potpourri of Problems.- Dimensions, Units, Conversions, Physical Data, and Other Useful Information.- SI prefixes.- Length.- Volume.- Mass.- Newton’s law.- Force.- Pressure.- Work, heat, and energy.- Power.- Molecular weight.- Ideal gas law.- Density.- Viscosity.- Kinematic viscosity.- Thermal conductivity.- Specific heat.- Thermal diffusivity.- Thermal radiative properties.- Heat transfer coefficient.- Dimensionless groups.- Table of physical properties of materials.- Author Index.- General Index.