Tubular Heat Exchanger

Extend the life span of tubular heat exchangers with this bounty of inspection checklists and cost-containment tips. Featuring coverage of the two inspection codes used worldwide, plus techniques of plugging, ferruling, and sleeving, this guide helps you clean exchangers ... make shell-side repairs and alterations ... maintain tubesheets, bonnets, channels, and covers ... handle tube leaks ... increase reboiler capacity and repair reboiler shells ... conduct feedwater heater autopsies to prevent repetition of past design and operation errors ... and much more.

Carl F. Andreone, P.E., is president of Heat Transfer Consultants, Inc., and a consultant on power generation heat transfer equipment to Stone & Webster Engineering Corporation. An internationally recognized authority on specifying feedwater heaters and auxiliary exchangers, he has worked on projects for more than 400 closed feedwater heaters in the last 15 years. Stanley Yokell, P.E., is past president of MGT, Inc., and a senior consultant to Hagler, Bailly Consulting, Inc., an international economics and engineering consulting firm. He is a leading expert on tube-to-tubesheet joining of tubular heat exchangers, and has been involved in the design and construction of over 3,000 tubular heat exchangers. Since 1979, he has consulted on a variety of problems with process and power generation heat exchanger problems. The authors have presented more than 100 short intensive courses on shell-and-tube heat exchangers, closed feed water heaters, and tubular exchanger inspection, maintenance, and repair in the United States, Canada, and Europe. Both are Fellows of the ASME.