Meet the editors

Laura Castro Gómez obtained a Ph.D. in Engineering and Applied Sciences at the Center of Research in Engineering and Applied Science (CIICAp). She is a professor and researcher in mechanical engineering at Morelos State University (UAEM), Mexico. She teaches thermodynamics, fluids mechanics, and heat transfer, among other subjects. She also has expertise in turbomachinery, fluid flows, and heat exchangers. She has

published sixteen papers in scientific journals and four book chapters. She has also co-edited two books. Dr. Castro is a reviewer for journals such as the *International Journal Of Energy Research* and *Heat and Mass Transfer*. She is a member of the board of directors of the Mexican Society of Mechanical Engineering, A.C. (SOMIM).

Miriam Navarrete Procopio is a Professor of Chemical Engineering, Morelos State University (UAEM), Mexico. She obtained a Ph.D. in Engineering and Applied Sciences at the Center of Research in Engineering and Applied Science (CIICAp). Dr. Navarrete leads chemical engineering laboratories where she teaches distillation, absorption, desorption, adsorption columns, heat exchangers, and chemical reactors design. She has been conducting

exergetic studies of several processes at both the industrial and laboratory scales.

Víctor Velázquez Flores is a Professor of Chemical Engineering, Morelos State University (UAEM), Mexico. He received a BChE and Ph.D. in Applied Chemical Engineering from the same university. Dr. Velázquez has taught thermodynamics, applied thermodynamics, applied fluids mechanics, mass and energy balance, and heat transfer. He has published articles in refereed and indexed journals and given workshops for the training of stu-

dents and teachers. He has also directed theses and served as a dissertation advisor.

Contents

**Section 1**

**Section 2**

Boundaries

**Section 3**

*by Abdelhanine Benallou*

**Preface XI**

Heat Recovery **1**

**Chapter 1 3**

**Chapter 2 25**

Novel Working Fluids **39**

**Chapter 3 41**

Novel Application **63**

**Chapter 4 65**

**Chapter 5 95**

Exergoeconomic and Normalized Sensitivity Analysis of Plate Heat Exchangers: A Theoretical Framework with Application *by Muhammad Ahmad Jamil, Talha S. Goraya, Haseeb Yaqoob, Kim Choon Ng, Muhammad Wakil Shahzad and Syed M. Zubair*

One-Dimensional Modeling of Triple-Pass Concentric Tube Heat

Magneto-Hydrodynamic Natural Convection Flow in a Concentric Annulus with Ramped Temperature and Ramped Motion of the

Exchanger in the Parabolic Trough Solar Air Collector

Heat Exchangers for Electronic Equipment Cooling

*by Marip Kum Ja, Qian Chen, Muhammad Burhan, Doskhan Ybyraiymkul, Muhammad Wakil Shahzad,* 

Direct Contact Heat and Mass Exchanger for Heating, Cooling,

*by Nguyen Minh Phu and Ngo Thien Tu*

*by Khadijah Lawal and Haruna Jibril*

Humidification, and Dehumidification

*Raid Alrowais and Kim Choon Ng*
