Written by engineers for engineers

The revised first volume, the ‘Heat Transfer Data Book II’, had originally been compiled by the engineers K.J. Bell and A.C. Mueller from Wolverine Tube. In just 280 pages, it summarises the fundamentals of heat transfer, from sensible heat transfer and condensation via the use of Trufin tubes in air-cooled heat exchangers through to the optimisation of evaporation processes by using low finned Trufin tubes.

École Polytechnique Fédérale in Lausanne, Switzerland, is the author of the Heat Transfer Engineering Data Book III. The book comprises 673 pages as well as almost 200 short film sequences and an Excel calculation tool and describes enhanced heat transfer design methods for shell-and-tube heat exchangers.

It covers design considerations for enhanced heat exchangers, single-phase shell-side flows and heat transfer, heat transfer to air-cooled heat exchangers, condensation on external surfaces, condensation inside tubes, boiling heat transfer on external surfaces, two-phase flow pattern, falling film evaporation, thermodynamics of refrigerant mixtures and refrigerant oil, post-dryout heat transfer, flow boiling and two-phase flow of CO₂ as well as two-phase flow and boiling in microchannels.

The rights for these publications have since recently been with Wieland-Werke AG. Wieland Thermal Solutions specialises in solving various thermal engineering problems.

As a thermal engineering expert, Wieland Thermal Solutions has reissued the books in a modern form as e-book (pdf) and made them again generally available. The English books can be ordered from a German and a US-American online bookstore.