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Research Reports: Air-Cooled Heat Exchangers and Extended Surfaces

AC-1 Experimental Study of Air-Cooled Heat Exchanger Performance under Both Natural and Forced Draft Conditions (1980; rev 09/2021)
AC-2 The Application of Propeller Fans to Air-Cooled Dry Heat Exchangers (1981)
AC-3 Study of Backflow and Inert Accumulation in Air-Cooled Condensers (1981; rev 1989)
AC-4 Design Methods which Reduce or Eliminate the Inert Blanketing in Air-Cooled Condensers (1982)
AC-5 Airflow Problems in Forced Draft Air-Cooled Heat Exchangers (1986)
AC-6 Air-Cooled Heat Exchanger Construction Practices (1988)
AC-7 Airflow Performance in Induced-Draft Air-Cooled Heat Exchangers (1990)
AC-8 Comparison of the Air-Cooler Model Performance with Forced and Induced Draft (1992)
AC-9 Predicting Fans-Off Operation of Air-Cooled Heat Exchangers (1994)
Q3-4 Effects of Tube Pitch and Number of Rows in Air-Cooled Heat Exchanger Performance (1998)
AC-10 Study on Effects of Tube Pitch and Row for Air-Cooled Heat Exchangers: Data and Method Improvement (1999)
AC-11 Method Evaluation and Improvement for High-Finned Air-Cooled Heat Exchangers (2002)
AC-12 Development of Incremental Row Correction Factors for Air-Cooled Heat Exchangers (2002; rev 04/2011)
AC-13 Condensation of Vapors from a Gas Stream Outside High-Finned Tubes (2004; rev 10/2012)
AC-14 Longitudinal Pitch Effect on Pressure Drop and Heat Transfer in High-Finned Tubes (2005)
AC-15 Developing an A-Frame Exchanger Model for Xace (2007)
AC-16 First Adaptation of Stream Analysis Method for Air-Cooled Heat Exchangers (2010)
AC-17 CFD Simulations of Airside Maldistribution Around API Air Cooler (2016)
AC-18 Air-cooler Header Pressure Drop and Flow Maldistribution (2016)
AC-19 Mixed Convection Heat Transfer Outside High-finned Tube Bundles in Low Airflow (2022)
AC-20 Side Blockage Effects on Performance of Forced-draft Air-cooled Heat Exchangers (2022)

ESG-1 Efficiency of Extended Surfaces (1971)
ESG-2 The Testing of Ideal Tube Banks in Wind Tunnels (1971)
ESG-3 Critical Evaluation of Effects of Finned Tube Geometry Parameters and Survey of Data Sources (1971)
ESG-4 Survey and Evaluation of Heat Transfer and Pressure Drop Correlations for Ideal Finned Tube Banks with Staggered Tube Layouts (1972)
ESG-5 The Effect of Tube Pitch on Pressure Drop and Heat Transfer for Large Diameter Air Cooler Tubes (1977)
ESG-6 Isothermal Pressure Drop Tests on 2-inch Serrated and Solid Finned Tubes (1978)
ESG-7 Heat Transfer and Pressure Drop on Air-Cooler Tubes with Plain and Expanded Slit Fins. A Proprietary Test for E. I. Du Pont de Nemours & Co. (1972; revised 1978)
ESG-8 Comparison of the Performance of Inline and Staggered Banks of Tubes with Segmented Fins (1973; revised 1978)
RB5-1 Row Effects in a Finned Tube Bundle of Preheater Tubes with Zero Fin-Tip Clearance (1979)
ESG-9 Thermal Contact and Gap Resistances of Interference-Fit Bimetallic Finned Tubes - Background Report (1979)
RB5-2 Experimental Results for Large Diameter Heat Recovery Tubes with Transverse Fins (1981)
RB5-3 Fin Bond Resistance (1981)
ESG-10 Parametric Study of Air-Cooler Finned Tube Bundles (1982)
RB5-4 Heat Transfer and Pressure Drop Data of Stud Fin Tubes (1986)
ESG-11 Fin Bond Resistance of Air-Cooled Heat Exchanger Finned Tubes (1986)
ESG-12 Pitch and Layout Effects on Heat Transfer and Pressure Drop of High-Finned Tube Banks (1986)
ESG-13 The Effect of Fin Serration on the Thermal Hydraulics of Air-Cooler Tubebundles (1987)
ESG-14 Row Effects in Finned Tube Banks (1988)
ESG-15 Heat Transfer and Pressure Drop of Large Diameter Finned Tubes (1989)
ESG-16 Heat Transfer and Pressure Drop of Stud Finned Tubes (1992)