Page 5 - Design and Operation of Heat Exchangers and their Networks

Preface

The idea to write this book was born during the work on a German-Chinese
research project on heat exchanger networks, carried out at the Institute of
Thermodynamics of the Helmut Schmidt University (HSU)/University of
the Federal Armed Forces Hamburg in the years 2001–04.
The project was supported in Germany by Deutsche Forschungsge-
meinschaft (DFG, German Research Council) under No. RO294/9-1,2 and
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the title Optimale Auslegung, Flexibilit€tsanalyse und dynamische Simulation
vonW€arme€ubertragernetzwerken mit Mehrstromw€arme€ubertragern (Optimal
design, flexibility analysis and dynamic simulation of heat exchanger networks
with multistream heat exchangers). The financial and technical support from
Sep 2001 to Nov 2004 is herewith gratefully acknowledged.
Many scientists were involved in this project: first, Dr.-Ing. Xing Luo
worked in Hamburg on the subject in the frame of his habilitation together
with PhD student Kequn Li from University of Shanghai for Science and
Technology (USST). Luo also coordinated the experimental work at USST
and the theoretical work in Hamburg and organized the visits of the Chinese
participants. Continuously, two guest scientists at a time from China worked
at HSU Hamburg for 3years. Altogether, 11 professors, lecturers, and sci-
entists from 4 Chinese universities came to HSU and contributed theoretical
work on the project: from USST, Meiling Li, Xin Guan, and Hugen Ma;
from Tongji University, Dezhen Chen, Peng Li, Wei Jin, Weiguo Zhou,
and Tong Zhu; from Dalian University of Technology, Guangfeng Wei,
and Pingjing Yao; and from South China University of Technology, Zhi-
hong Li. Prof. Dezhen Chen from Tongji University was the first who
started writing of the planned book during her stay in Hamburg, and she
collected and selected all the materials over the years. In this way, the whole
research team contributed directly or indirectly to the new book on heat
exchangers and their networks. Special thanks and recognition are given
to Dr.-Ing. Xing Luo who did the final editorial work of the whole book.
There exist already several well-known and established appropriate
books on heat exchangers and related fields. These books are and remain
useful. The new book, however, intends to fill some gaps concerning heat
exchanger networks, their optimization, and their dynamic behavior. The

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