Integrating Electrical Heating Elements in Product Design / Edition 1

by Thor Hegbom

Overview

Offers details on the utilization of electrical heating elements in consumer appliance design and industrial processes. The text includes basic theory, metallurgy and production advice for developing more reliable and cost-effective heaters. It provides tables comparing resistivity and surface resistance of different materials, and listing the resistance and weight per metre as well as surface per ohm of whole and half B&S wire and ribbon sizes for common standard resistance heating alloys. The book also contains calculation equations suitable for use in BASIC programs.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780824798406
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	04/15/1997
Series:	Electrical and Computer Engineering , #101
Pages:	486
Product dimensions:	6.12(w) x 9.19(h) x (d)

Table of Contents

Metallic resistance heating wire; wire (and ribbons) made of materials different from resistance heating alloys; general information about electrical heating elements; suspended elements; supported elements; embedded elements; film elements; PTC elements; silicon carbide and carbon elements; domestic appliances and heaters.

Editorial Reviews

A reference for engineers, who have had to rely on disparate information from wire supplies when designing heating elements. Describes the standard resistance heating alloys and their properties, the laws of heat transfer and the basic formulae for calculating heating elements, coiling and the properties of coils, ceramic and plastic materials used for making heating elements, safety considerations for both elements and appliances, and metallic materials for elements in groups according to how the heating wire is mechanically supported and how heat is dissipated from its surface. Does not consider heating elements for furnaces. A college-level science education is required to take full advantage of the deductions and equations. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

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