ht: Heat Transfer component of Chemical Engineering Design Library (ChEDL)¶
Introduction¶
ht is open-source software for engineers and technicians working in the fields of chemical or mechanical engineering. It includes modules for various heat transfer functions.
Among the tasks this library can be used for are:
Sizing a Shell & Tube heat exchanger using any of the Zukauskas, ESDU 73031, or Bell methods
Calculating pressure drop in a Hairpin heat exchanger
Calculating heat loss of objects, including insulated objects
Calculating heat loss from buried pipe
Performing radiative heat transfer calculations
Conderser and Reboiler rating
Detailed heat exchanger evaluation; finding fouling factors
Heat transfer in packed beds
Sizing a Plate and Frame heat exchanger
Modeling an Air Cooler
Supercritical CO2 or water heat transfer
Contents:
- Tutorial
- API Reference
- Air cooler sizing and rating (ht.air_cooler)
- Flow boiling (ht.boiling_flow)
- Nucleic boiling and critical heat flux (ht.boiling_nucleic)
- Boiling in plate and frame exchangers (ht.boiling_plate)
- Condensation (ht.condensation)
- Conduction and shape factors (ht.conduction)
- External convection (ht.conv_external)
- Free convection to immersed bodies (ht.conv_free_immersed)
- Free convection to enclosed bodies (ht.conv_free_enclosed)
- Internal convection (ht.conv_internal)
- Convection to jacketed vessels (ht.conv_jacket)
- Convection to packed beds (ht.conv_packed_bed)
- Convection to Plate Heat Exchangers (single-phase) (ht.conv_plate)
- Convection with supercritical fluids (ht.conv_supercritical)
- Heat transfer and pressure drop across tube bundles (ht.conv_tube_bank)
- Non boiling and non condensing two-phase heat transfer (ht.conv_two_phase)
- Miscellaneous utilities (ht.core)
- Heat exchanger sizing and rating (ht.hx)
- Database of insulating and refractory material properties (ht.insulation)
- Support for Numba (ht.numba)
- Heat transfer by radiation (ht.radiation)
- Support for numpy arrays (ht.vectorized)
Installation¶
Get the latest version of ht from https://pypi.python.org/pypi/ht/
If you have an installation of Python with pip, simple install it with:
$ pip install ht
To get the git version, run:
$ git clone git://github.com/CalebBell/ht.git
Latest source code¶
The latest development version of ht’s sources can be obtained at
Bug reports¶
To report bugs, please use the ht’s Bug Tracker at:
License information¶
ht is MIT licensed. See LICENSE.txt
for information on the terms &
conditions for usage of this software, and a DISCLAIMER OF ALL WARRANTIES.
Although not required by the ht license, if it is convenient for you, please cite ht if used in your work. Please also consider contributing any changes you make back, such that they may be incorporated into the main library and all of us will benefit from them.
Citation¶
To cite ht in publications use:
Caleb Bell and Contributors (2016-2023). ht: Heat transfer component of Chemical Engineering Design Library (ChEDL)
https://github.com/CalebBell/ht.