' PROCESS HEAT TRANSFER BY DONALD Q. KERN D. Q. Kern Asvocials, and Lecturer in Chemical Engineering (Case Institute of Teebnology McGRAW-HILL BOOK COMPANY, ‘Auckland Bogoté Guatemala Hamburg Lisbon London Madrid Mexico New Delhi Panama Paris San Juan Sao Paulo Singapore Sydney TokyoPROCESS HEAT TRANSFER INTERNATIONAL EDITION 1965 Exclusive rights by McGraw-Hill Book Co-Singapore for manaficure and expor. This book cannot be re-exported from the country to which it is consigned by McGraw-Hill, 12345678920 S1P98765 Copyigh, 1950, by the McGraw-Hill Book Company, Inc, All sight exeed Nope “sh publentn may be repalacel aed fh a seer, in iy form or by any meine, eeonis mechani, photocopying, Scoring, or others, whut the por wien permission of the poster, When ordering this title use ISBN 0-07-085353-3 ‘To my wife NATALIE W. KERN for her real helpPREFACE It is the object of this text to provide fundamental instruction in hesit ‘transfer while employing the methods and language of industry. ‘This treatment of the subject has evolved from course given at the Poly- ‘technie Institute of Brooklyn over « period of years. ‘The possibilities ‘of collegiate inetruction patterned after the requirements of the practicing process engineer were suggested and encouraged by Dr. Donald F. ‘Othmer, Head of the Department of Chemical Engineering. The inclu- sion of ‘he practical aspects of the subject as an integral part of the pedagogy was intended to serve as a supplement rather than a eubstitute for @ strong foundation in engineering fundamentals. These points of ‘view have been retained throughout the writing of the book. ‘To provide the rounded group of heat-transfer tools required in process: engineering it has been necessary to present a number of emapirical ealculs- tion methods which have not previously appeared in the engineering literature. Considerable thoughit has been given to these methods, and the author bas discussed them with numerous engineers before accepting and including them in the text. It has been a further desire that all the calculations appesring in the text shall have been performed by an ‘expetienced engineer in a conventional manner. On several occasions the author has enlisted the aid of experienced colleagues, and their assistance is acknowledged in the text. Tn presenting several of the methods some degree of securacy has been sacrificed to permit the broader application of Tt became apparent. in the early stages of writing this book that it could readily become too large for convenient use, and this has affected the plan of the book in several important respects. A portion of the material ‘hich is included in eonventional texts is rarely if ever applied in tho solu- ‘ion of run-of-the-mill engineering problems. Such material, as familiar and accepted as it may be, has been omitted ynless it qualified as impor- tant fundamental information. Socondly, it was not possible to allocate ‘space for making bibliographic comparisons and evaluations and a; the sqine time present industrial practice. Where no mention has been made of a recent contribution to the literature no slight was intended. Most of the literature references cited cover methods on which the author hhas obtained additional information from industriel application.