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F-correction method:F-factor charts and equations for various heat exchanger configurations,1.5.2-2/1.5.3-16F-factor method:F-type shells:
GHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZcalculation of heat transfer and pressure drop in,3.3.11-2discussion of,3.3.4-3thermal leakage in,1.5.2-17
Fabrication:Failure modes of heat exchangers,4.1.1-3/4.1.1-5Falling films, direct contact heat transfer in,2.10.2-1/2.10.2-3Falling film evaporator:Falling film plate evaporator,3.7.4-6/3.7.4-7Fanning friction factor (see Friction factor)Fanno flow,2.2.2-14Fans in air-cooled heat exchangers:Fans (forced and induced draft), for waste heat boilers,3.16.2-14/3.16.2-15Farad (SI unit), xxviiiFatigue as failure mode of a heat exchanger4.1.1-5, 4.3.2-154.5.3-2/4.5.3-3, 4.6.1-2Fatigue life, of expansion bellows,4.10.2-5Fawcett, R4.3.2-1/4.3.2-17, 4.3.3-1/4.3.3-25Fedor's method, for critical temperature,5.1.1-1Feedwater heater, for waste heat boilers,3.16.2-1/3.16.2-3Feedwater pumps, for waste heat boilers,3.16.2-2/3.16.2-3Feedwater treatment, for waste heat boilers,3.16.2-1Feng, Z P,2.13.5-1/2.13.5-20Fenghour, A5.1.1-1/5.1.1-6, 5.1.2-1/5.1.2-23, 5.1.3-1/5.1.3-13, 5.1.4-1/5.1.4-17, 5.1.5-1/5.1.5-4, 5.2.1-1/5.2.1-7, 5.2.4-1/5.2.4-4, 5.2.7-1/5.2.7-9Ferritic stainless steels, as material of construction,4.5.2-3/4.5.2-4Fick's law for diffusion,2.1.1-2Film boiling:Film cooler, approximate overall heat transfer coefficients in,2.1.2-4Film model, condenser design by2.6.3-17, 2.6.4-8/2.6.4-13Film temperature, definition of for turbulent flow over flat plate,2.2.1-34Film-type direct-contact condensers3.20.1-3, 3.20.3-1/3.20.3-5Films in heat exchangers,1.1.4-2Filmwise condensation:Fincotherm, heat transfer medium,5.5.15-48Finite-difference equations:Finite difference methods:Finite-element methods:Finned-tube banks (see Tube banks, finned)Fins (see also Extended surfaces):Fire-tube boiler,3.11.2-3Fire-tube waste heat boilers:Fired heaters,3.11.2-1/3.11.2-3Fires, room, radiation interaction phenomena in,2.9.8-21/2.9.8-23Fires, protection against,4.15.6-1/4.15.6-2Firsova, E V,2.5.13-1/2.5.13-10Fittings, pipe (see Piping components)Fixed beds:Fixed tubesheet, shell-and-tube exchangers:Flanges, mechanical design of in heat exchangers,4.3.2-7/4.3.2-94, 4.14.1/4.14.8-5Flash evaporation3.5.3-2, 3.22.1-1/3.22.3-20Flat absorber of thermal radiation,2.9.2-15Flat heads:Flat plate:Flat reflector of thermal radiation,2.9.2-14Floating head designs for shell-and-tube heat exchangers:Flooded type evaporator, in refrigeration,3.26.4-2Flooding phenomena:Florschuetz and Chao method, for bubble collapse in bubble-type direct-contact condenser,3.20.4-2Flow distribution:Flow-induced vibration,4.6.1-1/4.6.6-4Flow measurement, in air cooled heat exchangers,3.18.3-6/3.18.3-7Flow patterns (see Flow regimes)Flow quality (see Quality)Flow regimes:Flow stream analysis method for segmentally baffled shell and tube heat exchangers,3.3.13-1/3.3.13-10Flue gas heated waste heat boilers,3.16.2-3/3.16.2-4Flue gases, fouling by,3.17.7-11/3.17.7-17Fluid elastic instability as source of flow-induced vibration,4.6.4-2Fluid flow, lost work in,1.9.5-6/1.9.5-7Fluid mechanics, Eulerian formulation for,2.2.1-2Fluid-to-particle heat transfer in fluidized beds,2.5.5-1/2.5.5-6Fluidized bed dryer:Fluidized bed gravity conveyors,2.3.3-7/2.3.3-9Fluidized beds:Fluids:Fluorine:Fluorobenzene:Fluoroethane (Refrigerant 161):Fluoromethane (Refrigerant 41):Fluted tubes:Flux method, for modeling radiation in furnaces,3.11.7-5Flux relationships in heat exchangers,1.2.2-1/1.2.2-4Foaming, problems in vaporizers due to,3.18.5-3Fog formation (see Fogging in condensation)Fogging in condensation2.6.7-1/2.6.7-4, 3.4.5-2Food processing, fouling of heat exchangers in,3.17.6-8/3.17.6-10Force, conversion of units, xxx, xlv-lviForced convection heat transfer, single-phase (see Convection heat transfer)Forced convective boiling (see Boiling)Forced flow reboilers:Formaldehyde:Formamide:Formed ends, see Dished endsFormic acid:Forschheimer model, for flow in porous media,2.11.1-3Forster and Zuber correlation for nucleate boiling,2.7.2-4Fouling,3.17.1-1/3.17.8-23Foam systems, heat transfer in,2.12.1-1/2.12.2-9Four phase flows, examples,2.3.1-2Fourier law for conduction2.1.1-2, 2.4.1-1Fourier number (Fo):Fracture, brittle, see Brittle fractureFrames for plate heat exchangers,4.4.2-5/4.4.2-7France, guide to national practice for mechanical design,4.3.5-6Free convection:Free-fall velocity, of particles,2.3.3-3Free molecule conditions, maximum shear stress, heat flux, and mass flux in,2.1.1-2Free-stream turbulence, effect on flow over cylinders,2.2.3-6Freeze protection of air-cooled heat exchangers,4.4.1-1/4.4.1-24.4.1-7Freezing, of condensate in condensers3.4.5-2/3.4.5-3, 3.18.4-2Fresnel relations in reflection of radiation,2.9.2-9Fretting corrosion,4.5.3-2Freyn checker packing, for regenerators,3.15.2-1/3.15.2-2Friction coefficient (see Friction factor)Friction factor:Friction multipliers in gas-liquid flow:Friction velocity, definition,2.2.1-25Frictional pressure drop (see Pressure drop)Friedel correlation for frictional pressure gradient in straight channels,2.3.2-11Froude number:Fuels, properties of,3.11.3-1/3.11.3-3Fuller, R K,3.17.6-11/3.17.6-19Furan:Furfural:Furnaces:Fusion welding, of tubes into tubesheets in shell-and-tube heat exchangers,4.11.3-1/4.11.3-4