A newly published heat recovery handbook gives comprehensive information on using heat exchangers to recover waste heat for re-use. The handbook, published by American Standard Heat Transfer Division, gives details of a series of case histories with schematics of actual installations where industrial companies have used fan-type, shell-and-tube or plate-type heat transfer to collect "waste" heat for re-use.
The case histories, which include applications from process heat re-use to facility space heating, describe operating parameters, heat exchanger installation information, and payback periods.
The handbook also includes a glossary of heat transfer/heat recover terminology, and details of American-Standard shell-and-tube, fan-type, and plate-type heat exchangers, and has information about selecting the correct type of unit for a specific heat recovery application.
For a free copy of the heat recovery handbook, Write 33 on Reader Service Card