The new textbook ‘Low Loss Storage and Handling of Cryogenic Fluids: The Application of Cryogenic Fluid Dynamics’ by Ralph Scurlock, F.I.Mech.E., C.Eng., M.A., D.Phil, is a particularly timely publication for all users of low temperature hydrocarbon liquids, including LNG, LPG and liquid ethylene.
The book provides the necessary information and advice to achieve the maximum obtainable economy in the storage and handling of hydrocarbon liquids with boiling points below ambient. The cost of this hardback will be recovered by savings in the cost of liquid used, within a few days of reading it and applying its suggestions.
In the book, the author has distilled the findings of his research over 50 years into vapour column properties, convective heat transfer and the behaviour of cryogenic liquids in storage. These findings are thought to be unique and have never been published within a single cover before.
The contents develop a logical understanding of the extraordinary evaporative behaviour of all low temperature liquids, and how heat in-leaks from the environment reach the liquid to cause surface evaporation only, or more colloquially, ‘boil-off’. The book then goes on to discuss all the insulation techniques available for reducing the heat in-leaks.
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