Design and Operation of Heat Exchangers

This particular Seminar No. 18 on the Design and Operation of Heat Exchangers was the first one on this topic and was held at the Universit{t der Bundeswehr Hamburg (University of the Federal Armed Forces Hamburg) fromFebruary 27 to March 1 in 1991. The seminar was an international event and was attended by more than 60 scientist not only from countries of the European Community such as Belgium, France, Germany, Great Britain, and the Netherlands but also from other countries such as Canada, China, India, Israel, Romania, Soviet Union, Sweden and the United States of America. In this proceedings volume thirty-seven conference papers are published dealing with various aspects of the design and operation of heat exchangers. The first four papers are of general interest and not restricted to special flow arrange- ments or geometries. The next six contributions refer to shell and tube heat exchangers. In the following chapter 10 papers are represented which deal with cross-flow heat ex- changers. Another group of six refers to plate heat exchan- gers. The next two papers deal with heat storage in regene- rators and in the soil. The last chapter contains nine pa- pers on multiphase heat transfer invarious applications such as power plant condensers, heat pipe and direct contact heat exchangers. Thus, a great variety of theory and practi- ce is offered in this volume and thanks are due to all con- tributors.