Video Lecture
The whole series is available as a single video with chapter markers. Each chapter page starts this video at that chapter.
Chemical Engineering Heat Transfer
Conduction, Convection, Radiation, and the Exchangers That Run the Plant
Reboilers and condensers dominate a plant's utility bill, and nearly every stream is heated or cooled somewhere on the flowsheet. This course continues the transport-phenomena arc of our chemical engineering curriculum — momentum transfer came first, heat transfer is second, and mass transfer completes the trio in our Chemical Engineering Mass Transfer and Separation series.
Series Overview
- Resist — conduction, convection, and thermal resistances in series
- Size — the log-mean temperature difference turns duty into exchanger area
- Change — boiling and condensation: the best and most dangerous heat transfer
- Radiate — the fourth-power law and the furnaces it governs
- Design — compact exchangers, fouling management, and intensification
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Chapters
| Chapter | Title | What You Will Learn |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Conduction, Convection, and the Overall Coefficient | Fourier's law, film coefficients, resistances in series, fouling |
| 2 | Heat Exchangers and the LMTD | Counter-current vs co-current, log-mean temperature difference, a complete sizing, ε-NTU |
| 3 | Boiling, Condensation, and Evaporators | The boiling curve and critical heat flux, filmwise condensation, multiple-effect evaporation |
| 4 | Radiation and Furnaces | The Stefan–Boltzmann law, emissivity, when radiation dominates, fired heaters |
| 5 | Heat-Transfer Design and Intensification | Plate exchangers, fouling management, enhanced surfaces, the digital layer |
Who This Series is For
- Students continuing the transport arc from our Fluid Mechanics series into process heat
- Engineers and researchers who size exchangers, troubleshoot fouling, or work around fired equipment
- Data scientists monitoring exchanger performance data who want the physics behind a drifting U
Recommended preparation: Chemical Engineering Introduction and Fluid Mechanics; the Thermodynamics series supplies the energy-balance and vapor-pressure connections. Mathematics stays at algebra with a few worked calculations.
Related Series
Part of the classical-fundamentals track with Chemical Engineering Introduction, Chemical Engineering Thermodynamics, and Chemical Engineering Fluid Mechanics. Chemical Engineering Mass Transfer and Separation completes the transport trio. Data-driven companions: Process Informatics Introduction and Introduction to Process Monitoring and Control.