Heat Exchangers: Operation, Performance, and Maintenance

Heat Exchangers: Operation, Performance, and Maintenance covers heat exchanger installation, commissioning and operation, and maintenance and performance deterioration in service. It also discusses various cleaning processes and repair methods.

Focusing on in-service issues like flow-induced vibration, corrosion, and corrosion control, and fouling and fouling control, the book explores performance deterioration in service, maintenance issues, defects, tube failures and how to detect these issues with NDT methods. The book also considers boilers, utility boilers, coal-based thermal power plants, boiler corrosion, and boiler degradation mechanisms. It discusses different types of cooling systems, feedwater treatment, deaerators, feed water heaters, economizers, condensers, cooling towers, and cooling water management.

The book serves as a useful reference for researchers, graduate students, power plant engineers, and engineers in the field of heat exchanger design, including pressure vessel manufacturers.