Tubular Heat Exchanger: Inspection, Maintenance and Repair - Hardcover

Andreone, Carl; Yokell, Stanley

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0070017786 ISBN 13: 9780070017788

Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education, 1997

Synopsis

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.

About this title

About the Author

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.

From the Back Cover

Maximize Heat Exchanger Availability and Cut the Need for Costly Repairs in Your Plant! Increasing concerns about cost control in process and manufacturing industries make it imperative to extend the life span of tubular heat exchangers. This handbook provides a bounty of inspection checklists and cost-containment tips that minimize the need for new equipment. It addresses inspection, maintenance, and repair of shell-and-tube heat exchangers ranging from simple pipe-size shop-fabricated exchangers to large field-erected ones. Practical approaches cover nondestructive examination and testing of exchangers that are under construction, in operation, or being restored for operation. Special attention is given to finding the locations and causes of failures and techniques of plugging, ferruling, and sleeving. Featuring coverage of the the two inspection codes used worldwide, this guide helps you to: Clean exchangers; Find the causes and locations of failures; Make shell-side repairs and alterations; Maintain, alter, and repair tubesheets, bonnets, channels, and covers; Handle tube leaks that necessitate unscheduled outages; Increase reboiler capacity and repair reboiler sheels; Evaluate heat exchanger factories and repair shops. You'll also see how to conduct feedwater heater autopsies so you can prevent repetition of past design and operation errors. Complete with insights into causes of deterioration and guidance on retubing and rebundling. Tubular Heat Exchanger Inspection, Maintenance, and Repair will be your most valuable cost-cutting field manual.

Edition details

• Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education
• Publication date: 1997
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0070017786
• ISBN 13: 9780070017788
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 536