
Heat Transfer Enhancement in Chemical Processes
- 1st Edition - August 14, 2024
- Imprint: Elsevier
- Author: Lili Sun
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 4 4 3 - 1 8 5 6 0 - 1
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 4 4 3 - 1 8 5 6 1 - 8
Heat Transfer Enhancement in Chemical Processes combines process technologies with heat exchange equipment to study heat transfer enhancement. The book provides guidance for the p… Read more
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Request a sales quoteHeat Transfer Enhancement in Chemical Processes combines process technologies with heat exchange equipment to study heat transfer enhancement. The book provides guidance for the progress of process technologies and the application of enhanced heat transfer equipment. It analyzes the basic principles of heat transfer and summarizes the theories and methods of heat transfer enhancement, while also focusing on three representative processes in petrochemical industry, including oil refining, aromatics, and ethylene production. The book summarizes in a systematical way the practical application of heat transfer enhancement in the petrochemical industry, from the equipment components, the processes, and the whole plant.
- Puts theory into practice, providing guidance for the application of scientific research achievements
- Integrates process technologies with process intensification, providing guidance for process flow enhancement
- Combines process with equipment, introducing heat transfer enhancement technologies suitable for different processes
- Covers the oil refining unit, aromatics unit, the ethylene plant and its downstream units
1.1 Significance of heat transfer enhancement
1.2 Progress in heat transfer enhancement technologies
1.3 Engineering application of heat transfer enhancement
Part I Theories and methods of heat transfer enhancement
2. Basic principles of heat transfer enhancement
2.2 Overview
2.3 Heat transfer enhancement without phase change
2.4 Boiling heat transfer enhancement
2.5 Condensation heat transfer enhancement
3. Fouling resistance and suppression methods
3.1 Fouling
3.2 Fouling resistance
3.3 Cleaning technologies
4. Heat exchange network synthesis technology
4.1 Concept of pinch point and its determination
4.2 Grand composite curve and balanced grand composite curve
4.3 multiple pinch points and no pinch point
4.4 Pinch point design method for heat exchange network
4.5 Optimization of heat exchange network
4.6 Optimal design of heat exchange network with threshold
5. Components and equipment commonly used for heat transfer enhancement
5.1 Shell and tube heat exchanger
5.2 Plate heat exchanger
5.3 Tubular furnace
Part II Heat transfer enhancement in typical processes
6. Heat transfer enhancement in typical oil refining units
6.1 Crude distillation unit
6.2 Fluid catalytic cracking unit
6.3 Hydrocracking unit
6.4 Hydrofining unit
6.5 Heavy oil hydrotreating unit
6.6 Hydrogen Plant
6.7 Delayed coking unit
6.8 S Zorb unit
6.9 Alkylation unit
7. Heat transfer enhancement in aromatics complex
7.1 Prehydrogenation and catalytic reforming unit
7.2 Aromatics extraction unit
7.3 Disproportionation unit
7.4 Xylene isomerization unit
7.5 PX separation and xylene fractionation unit
8. Heat transfer enhancement in typical ethylene plant and its downstream units
8.1 Ethylene cracking
8.2 Ethylene separation
8.3 EO/EG unit
8.4 Propylene oxide unit
8.5 Styrene plant
8.6 C5 separation unit
8.7 Butyl rubber plant
9. Heat transfer enhancement and plant-wide energy conservation
9.1 Innovative and systematic method for energy conservation
9.2 Global optimization design of heat integration
9.3 Typical cases of plant-wide heat transfer enhancement
- Edition: 1
- Published: August 14, 2024
- No. of pages (Paperback): 456
- Imprint: Elsevier
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN: 9780443185601
- eBook ISBN: 9780443185618
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