Advances in Industrial Heat Transfer

Alina Adriana Minea, Ph.D., is an associate professor at the Technical University Gheorghe Asachi of Iasi, Romania. Her areas of interest include heat transfer, mass transfer, furnace gas dynamics, aluminum alloys, heat treatment, furnaces, thermal installations, materials design, and computer-assisted design for furnaces and equipment.

"…intended for practicing engineers and those who are interested in applied heat transfer…This reference book is a collection of industrial heat transfer topics that should assist thermal engineers to better understand and apply principles of thermal sciences to practical heat transfer problems."—Heat Transfer Engineering, Vol. 36 No. 5, 2015

• Introduction to Industrial Heat Transfer. Heat Transfer in Industrial Furnaces. Heat Transfer in Process Integration. Convective Flows in Porous Media. Heat Transfer in Nanofluids. Enhancement of Thermal Conductivity of Materials Using Different Forms of Natural Graphite. Heat Transfer Enhancement in Process Heating. Heat Transfer in Thermoelectricity. Heat Transfer in Fixed and Moving Packed Beds Predicted by the Extended Discrete Element Method. Heat Transfer in Organic Rankine Cycle Applications.