Index:

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• Wadekar, V., 2.7.1-1/2.7.1-15, 2.7.2-1/2.7.2-24
• Wagner equation, for vapour pressure, 5.1.3-1/5.1.3-2
• Wake, Coles law of the, 2.2.1-30
• Wall baffles, in agitated vessels, 3.14.2-2
• Wall layer transmissivity, 2.9.7-12/2.9.7-13
• Wall temperature:
• effect of distribution of, in flow along flat plate, 2.2.1-27, 2.2.1-29/2.2.1-34
• Wallis correlations:
• for flooding, 2.3.2-22
• application in reflux condensation, 2.6.2-8
• for interfacial friction factor, 2.3.2-21
• Wallis criterion, for transition from stratified to annular flow, applications in condensation, 3.4.6-2
• Walz' method, for laminar boundary layers, 2.2.1-24
• Waste heat boilers, 3.16.1-1/3.16.4-2
• application:
• in ammonia plants, 3.16.1-2
• in ethylene plants, 3.16.2-5
• in nitric acid plants, 3.16.2-4
• attemperators for, 3.16.2-12/3.16.2-13
• combustion air heaters for, 3.16.2-13/3.16.2-14
• corrosion and failure in, 4.5.3-4/4.5.3-5
• deaerators for, 3.16.2-2
• fabrication of, 3.16.3-1
• fans (induced and forced draft) for, 3.16.2-14/3.16.2-15
• feedwater heaters for, 3.16.2-1/3.16.2-3
• economizer-type, 3.16.2-3
• undeaerated-type, 3.16.2-1/3.16.2-2
• feedwater pumps for, 3.16.2-2/3.16.2-3
• feedwater treatment plants for, 3.16.2-1
• firetube-type:
• horizontal coil, 3.16.2-4
• horizontal (reformed gas), 3.16.2-5/3.16.2-6
• flue gas heated, 3.16.2-3/3.16.2-4
• horizontal tube type, 3.16.2-3
• fouling of, 3.16.2-6/3.16.2-8, 3.17.6-27/3.17.6-28
• mechanical design of, 3.16.3-1
• natural circulation fire tube type, 3.16.2-5
• precommissioning of, 3.16.4-1/3.16.4-2
• cleaning during, 3.16.4-1/3.16.4-2
• storage, 3.16.4-2
• process gas heated, 3.16.2-4/3.16.2-15
• "flat pancake"-type (nitric acid plant), 3.16.2-4
• horizontal fire-tube-type, 3.16.2-5/3.16.2-6
• quench boilers, 3.16.2-5
• watertube-types, 3.16.2-5/3.16.2-8
• quench boilers, 3.16.2-5
• double-tube-type, 3.16.2-5
• for ethylene plant, 3.16.2-5
• ribbed-tubesheet-type, 3.16.2-5
• steam drums for, 3.16.2-8/3.16.2-11
• level measurement and control in, 3.16.2-10/3.16.2-11
• separation efficiency of, 3.16.2-9
• superheaters for, 3.16.2-12/3.16.2-13
• typical arrangement of, 3.16.1-1
• watertube-type:
• bayonet-tube, 3.16.2-7
• double-tube, 3.16.2-5
• "flat pancake," 3.16.2-4
• horizontal tube, 3.16.2-3
• membrane wall, 3.16.2-3/3.16.2-4
• monotube, 3.16.2-8
• vertical U-tube, 3.16.2-7/3.16.2-8
• Waste water, fouling by, 3.17.6-19/3.17.6-20
• Water:
• critical heat flux values for, in tubes (table), 2.7.3-17/2.7.3-18
• emissivity of gaseous, 5.5.5-1/5.5.5-2
• fouling, design of heat exchangers for, 3.17.6-11/3.17.6-20
• in carbon nanotubes, 2.17.7-20
• liquid, properties of, 5.5.3-1/5.5.3-5, 5.5.10-156
• pool boiling curve for, at atmospheric pressure, 2.7.2-1
• quality, effect on fouling, 3.17.3-3/3.17.3-4
• Bodnar criterion for, 3.17.3-3
• Langelier index for, 3.17.3-3
• Ryznar index for, 3.17.3-3
• saturated properties: 3.12.2-4, 5.5.3-1/5.5.3-31, 5.5.1-155
• superheated gaseous:
• physical properties, 5.5.11-155
• thermodynamic properties, 5.5.3-1/5.5.3-31
• Water cooling towers, see Cooling towers
• Watertube boiler, 3.11.2-3
• Watertube waste heat boilers:
• bayonet-tube-type, 3.16.2-7
• double-tube-type, 3.16.2-5
• "flat pancake"-type, 3.16.2-4
• horizontal tube, 3.16.2-3
• membrane-wall-type, 3.16.2-3/3.16.2-4
• monotube-type, 3.16.2-8
• vertical-U-tube-type, 3.16.2-7/3.16.2-8
• Watt (SI unit), xxvii
• Wavelengths, of blackbody radiation, 2.9.1-4/2.9.1-5
• Waves, interfacial, effect on film condensation on vertical surface, 2.6.2-4/2.6.2-5
• Wavy fins, in plate fin exchangers, 3.9.3-1
• Webb, D. R., 2.6.3-1/2.6.3-25, 2.6.4-1/2.6.4-16
• Webb, R. L., 2.6.6-1/2.6.6-323.9.1-1/3.9.13-4, 4.4.3-1/4.4.3-9
• Weber (SI unit), xxviii
• Weber, M., 2.3.3-1/2.3.4-7
• Weber number, 1.2.3-5
• Weil, C. J., 4.17.1-1/4.17.1-4, 4.17.2-1/4.17.2-15
• Welded channel head, in shell-and tube heat exchanger, 4.2.4-1
• Welded fins:
• description of, 2.4.9-4
• plain high fins, 2.4.9-4
• segmental high fins, 2.4.9-4
• in double pipe exchangers, 3.2.5-1
• Welded plate exchangers:
• fully welded, 4.4.2-5
• welded pairs of plate, 4.4.2-4
• Welding:
• of carbon and low-alloy steels, 4.5.4-7, 4.5.4-10
• testing and inspection of, 4.7.3-1
• of tubes into tube sheets: arc, 4.2.6-8, 4.2.6-10
• explosive, 4.2.6-8/4.2.6-10
• fusion, 4.11.3-1/4.11.3-6
• Weldneck flange, 4.14.3-1
• Welds:
• EN13445 guidance on, 4.3.3-12, 4.3.3-23
• PD 5500 guidelines for, 4.3.5-16
• corrosion of, 4.5.3-5/4.5.3-6
• joint factors for, 4.3.2-16
• Wentz and Thodos equation, for fixed-bed pressure drop, 2.2.5-3
• Westinghouse jet condenser, 3.20.1-3
• Wet-bulb temperature, 3.13.3-2/3.13.3-4
• Wettability, of surface, effect on pool boiling, 2.7.2-10/2.7.2-11
• Whalley and Hewitt correlations:
• for entrainment, 2.3.2-22
• for interfacial roughness, 2.3.2-21
• White-Metzner model, for non-Newtonian fluid, 2.2.8-8
• Wicking, in enhancement of heat transfer, 2.5.11-2
• Wicks, for heat pipes:
• characteristics of, 3.10.6-1/3.10.6-2
• effective thermal conductivity of, 3.10.3-1
• Wilday, A. J., 4.17.1-1/4.17.1-4, 4.17.2-1/4.17.2-15
• Wildsmith, G., 4.5.7-1/4.5.7-9
• Willmot, A. J., 3.15.1/3.15.10-7
• Willmot method, for regenerator thermal performance, 3.15.7-12/3.15.7-23
• Wills-Johnson flow stream analysis method for segmentally baffled shell-and-tube heat exchangers, 3.3.13-2/3.3.13-9
• comparison with data, 3.3.13-5
• example of use of, 3.3.13-5/3.3.13-9
• resistance coefficients for use with, 3.3.13-4/3.3.13-5
• Wilson, D. I., 3.17.6-8/3.17.6-10, 3.17.6-26/3.17.6-27, 3.17.7-9/3.17.7-11, 3.17.8-13/3.17.8-19
• Window zone, in shell-and-tube heat exchangers:
• calculation of effective areas of, for flow through, 3.3.6-1/3.3.6-2
• pressure drop in gas-liquid flow in, 2.3.2-12/2.3.2-13
• Winter, H. H., 2.5.12-1/2.5.12-19
• Wire inserts, coiled, for enhancement of heat transfer in boiling, 2.7.9-3
• Wire mesh demisters (see Demisters)
• Wirth, K. E., 2.2.6-1/2.2.6-22
• Wispy annular flow, regions of occurrence of, 2.3.2-1/2.3.2-2
• Wittke and Chao method, for collapse of moving bubble, 3.20.4-1
• Work, unit conversion chart for, lii
• Work (in exergy analysis)
• lost (in unit operations), 1.9.5-1/1.9.5-11
• reversible minimum, 1.9.4-1/1.9.4-3
• Working fluid, selection of for heat pipe, 3.10.5-1/3.10.5-2