TY - BOOK AU - Kröger,Detlev G TI - Air-cooled heat exchangers and cooling towers SN - 0878148965 AV - TH7688.F2 K76 2004 PY - 2004///] CY - Tulsa, Okl. PB - Penwell Corporation KW - Factories KW - Cooling KW - Petroleum refineries KW - Electric power-plants KW - Heat KW - Transmission KW - Refrigeration and refrigerating machinery N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; Preface; List of Symbols; 1 Air-Cooled Heat Exchangers and Cooling Towers; Introduction; Cooling Towers; Air-cooled Heat Exchangers; Dry/Wet and Wet/Dry Cooling Systems; Conservation Equations; References; 2 Fluid Mechanics; Introduction; Viscous Flow; Flow in Ducts; Losses in Duct Systems; Manifolds; Drag; Flow through Screens or Gauzes; Two-phase Flow; References; 3 Heat Transfer; Introduction; Modes of Heat Transfer; Heat Transfer in Ducts; Extended Surfaces; Condensation; Heat Exchangers; References; 4 Mass Transfer and Evaporative Cooling; Introduction; Mass Transfer; Heat and Mass Transfer in Wet-cooling Towers; Fills or Packs; Effectiveness-NTU Method Applied to Evaporative System; Closed-Circuit Evaporative Cooler; Rain Zone; Drift Eliminators; Spray and Adiabatic Cooling; Visible Plume Abatemen; t References; 5 Heat Transfer Surfaces; Introduction; Finned Surfaces; Test Facilities and Procedures; Interpretation of Experimental Data; Presentation of Data; Heat Transfer and Pressure Drop Correlations; Oblique Flow through Heat Exchangers; Corrosion, Erosion and Fouling; Thermal Contact and Gap Resistance; Free Stream Turbulence; Non-uniform Flow and Temperature Distribution; References; APPENDICES; A Properties of Fluids; B Temperature Correction Factor; C Conversion Factors; D Contents, Volume II ER -