Chapter 14
Heat Transfer and Thermal Insulation
Contents
14.1. Introduction
14.2. Heat Transfer Fundamentals
14.2.1. Heat Conduction
14.2.2. Convection
14.2.2.1. Internal Convection
14.2.2.2. External Convection
14.2.3. Buried Pipeline Heat Transfer
14.2.3.1. Fully Buried Pipeline
14.2.3.2. Partially Buried Pipeline
14.2.4. Soil Thermal Conductivity1
14.3. U-Value
14.3.1. Overall Heat Transfer Coefficient
14.3.2. Achievable U-Values
14.3.3. U-Value for Buried Pipe
14.4. Steady-State Heat Transfer
14.4.1. Temperature Prediction along a Pipeline
14.4.2. Steady-State Insulation Performance
14.5. Transient Heat Transfer
14.5.1. Cooldown
14.5.1.1. Lumped Capacitance Method
14.5.1.2. Finite Difference Method
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