LIST OF PUBLICATIONS AND PRESENTATIONS

by

Richard Carranza

 

Hello, here is a list of my publications.  They include white papers, simple presentations, and magazine articles.


  

PUBLICATIONS

"Pressure Drop Across Spined Heat Exchangers in Cross-Flow", Master Thesis, Texas A&M University, 1987.

"Heat Transfer and Pressure Drop of Spined Pipe in Cross-Flow, Part I: Pressure Drop Studies", ASHRAE Transactions, 1990.

"Heat Transfer and Pressure Drop of Spined Pipe in Cross-Flow, Part III: Comparison to Other Heat Exchangers", ASHRAE Transactions, 1990.

"A Generalized Correlation for Pressure Drop Across Spined Pipe in Cross-Flow", ASHRAE Transactions, 1991.

"A Generalized Method For Centrifugal Compressor Blowdown", 1992 Process Plant Safety Symposium, Houston, Texas, 1992.

"An Improved Correlation for the Momentum Transfer Characteristics of Spined Pipe", ASHRAE Transactions, 1993.

"Spined Fin Efficiency of Spined Pipe Heat Exchangers", National Heat Transfer Conference, Atlanta, GA, 1993. Published in the Chemical Engineering Symposium Series, AIChE Publication, 1993.

"A Survey of Generalized Momentum Transfer Correlations for Selected Compact Heat Exchangers", ASHRAE Transactions, 1994.

"Centrifugal Compressor Blowdown: A Comparison of Three Different Dynamic Models", European Simulation Multiconference, Barcelona, Spain, 1994

"Free Trade, NAFTA, and the Chemical Process Industries", AIChE Spring National Meeting, Houston, Texas 1995.

"Heat Exchanger Design Fundamentals", AIChE Spring National Meeting, Houston, Texas 1999.

"A Survey of Generalized Heat Transfer Correlations for Selected Compact Heat Exchangers", American Power Conference, Chicago, Illinois 1999.

"Solving Word Problems:  Department of Mathematics versus Department of Engineering", AIChE Winter National Meeting, San Francisco, California, 2003.

"A Look Back at the Amundson Report", AIChE Winter National Meeting, Austin, Texas, 2004.

"A Survey of Important Auxiliary Equations for Selected Compact Heat Exchangers", ASME 2005 Summer Heat Transfer Conference, San Francisco, California, 2005.

"An Economic Review of the United States Chemical Industry since 1946", Association For Global Business Annual Conference, Miami Beach, Florida, 2005.

"Fin Efficiency of a Three Sided Pyramidal Spine Fin of Equilateral Triangular and Variable Cross-Sectional Area", WSEAS Transactions on Heat and Mass Transfer, January, 2006.

"Fin Efficiency of a Three Sided Pyramidal Fin of Equilateral Triangular and Variable Cross-Sectional Area:  Analytical Solution", WSEAS Transactions on Heat and Mass Transfer, March, 2006.

"Capitalism, Money, and Interest", Journal of Applied Business and Economics, 2007.

"A Dynamic Model for A Pump Hydraulic System", AIChE Spring National Meeting, Houston, Texas, 2007.

"Spine Fin Efficiency - A Three Sided Pyramidal Fin of Isosceles Triangular Cross-Sectional Area", ASME Summer Heat Transfer Conference, Vancouver, Canada, 2007.

"Spine Fin Efficiency - A Three Sided Pyramidal Fin of Scalene Triangular Cross-Sectional Area:  Analytical Solution", 5th WSEAS International Conference on Heat and Mass Transfer, Acapulco, Mexico, 2008.

"The Open Loop Economy", The Business Review, Cambridge, Summer 2008.

"A Dynamic Heat Transfer Analysis of a Three Sided Pyramidal Fin of Scalene Triangular Cross-Sectional Area", ASME Summer Heat Transfer Conference, Jacksonville, Florida, 2008.

"Capitalism, Money, and Interest - A different perspective., Clute Institute for Academic Research Conference, Honolulu, Hawaii, 2009.

"History of the United States Oil Industry since 1946", Proceedings of the WSEAS International Conference on Management, Marketing, and Finance, Houston, Texas, 2009.

"Dynamic Analysis of Heat Transfer through a Fin of Constant Cross-Sectional Area:  Specified Fin Tip Temperature", ASME Summer Heat Transfer Conference, San Francisco, California,  2009.

"Fin Efficiency of a Four Sided Pyramidal Fin with Equilateral Square Cross-Sectional Area", 13th UK Heat Transfer Conference, London, England, United Kingdom,  2013.

"Analysis of Boundary Conditions for Pyramidal Spine Fins in Extended Surface Heat Transfer", The 13th International Conference on Simulation and Experiments in Heat and Mass Transfer (Heat Transfer 2014), La Coruna, Spain, July, 2014.

"A Review of Process Safety Catastrophes on the Texas Gulf Coast", The 6th International Conference on Safety and Security Engineering (SAFE 2015), Opatija, Croatia, May, 2015.

"Fin Efficiency of Helical Fin with Fixed Fin Tip Temperature Boundary Condition", The 17th International Conference on Fluids and Thermal Engineering, Rome, Italy, September, 2015.

"The Closed Loop Economy", International Journal of Design and Nature and Ecodynamics, WIT Press, Volume 11, Number 4, 2016.

"Dynamic Analysis of Helical Fin with Fixed Fin Tip Temperature Boundary Condidtion", 12th International Conference on Heat Transfer, Fluid Mechanics, and Thermodynamics, Malaga, Spain, July, 2016.


 

PRESENTATIONS

"Una Correlation General de la Caida de Presion Atraves de Tubos Aletados Tipo Espinas en Fujo Transversal", El Primer Congreso Ibero-Americano de Aire Acondicionado y Refrigeracion, Cartagena, Colombia, 1991.

"An Improved Correlation for the Momentum Transfer Characteristics of Spined Pipe", AIChE Spring National Meeting, Houston, Texas, 1993.

"Analisis de la Eficiencia de las Aletas de un Tubo Aletado con Espinas", El Segundo Congreso Ibero-Americano de Aire Acondicionado y Refrigeracion, Madrid, Spain, 1993.


"Reflections on Chemical Engineering and Private Education", American Chemical Society National Meeting, Washington D.C., 1994.

"Centrifugal Compressor Blowdown: A Comparison of Three Different Dynamic Models", AIChE Winter National Meeting, Los Angeles, California, 2000.

"Spine Fin Efficiency - A Three Sided Pyramidal Fin of Equilateral Triangular Cross-Sectional Area", 2006 WSEAS/IASME International Conference on Heat and Mass Transfer, Miami Lakes, Florida, 2006.

"The Open Loop Economy", National Business and Economics Society Conference, Los Cabos, Mexico, 2006.

"Spine Fin Efficiency - A Three Sided Pyramidal Fin of Equilateral Triangular Cross-Sectional Area: Analytical Solution", The 4th WSEAS/IASME International Conference on Heat Transfer, Thermal Engineering, and Environment, Elounda, Agios Nikolaos, Crete, Greece, August, 2006.

"Capitalism, Money, and Interest", National Business and Economics Society Conference, San Juan, Puerto Rico, 2007.

"A Review of Process Safety Catastrophes on the Texas Gulf Coast", 2nd Annual International Conference on Industrial, Systems and Design Engineering, June, 2014, Athens, Greece.

"The Closed Loop Economy", The New Forest Complex Systems Conference 2016 (Complex Systems 2016), New Forest, United Kingdom, 2016.

 


 

MAGAZINE ARTICLES

"Process Simulation Troubleshooting", Chemical Processing, January, 1998.

"Avoiding Motor Failure", Chemical Processing, February, 1998.

"Turbomachinery References", Chemical Processing, March, 1998.

"Facility Uses Thermal Oxidation to Comply with VOC Regulations", Chemical Processing, April, 1998.

"Keeping Track of Hazardous Waste", Chemical Processing, September, 1998.

"CWA Helps Treat Chem Wastewater", Chemical Processing, October, 1998.

"Picking The Right Air Compressor", Chemical Processing, November, 1998.

"Picking Unfired Heat Exchangers", Chemical Processing, April, 1999.

"Catalysis:  A Look at  the Basics", Chemical Processing, May, 1999.

"Fans Lift Fighting Irish to 'Exhausting' Victory", Engineered Systems, May, 1999.

"Keeping The Flow", Engineered Systems, August, 1999.

"Minorities in the Engineering Workplace '99: Overcoming Barriers to Succuss - Part I and II", Graduating Engineer and Computer Careers ONLINE, September, 1999.

"Basics of Control Valve Sizing", Chemical Processing, January, 2000.

"Mixing-It's Broad and Complex", Chemical Processing, January, 2000.

"Find The Right Catalytic Reactor", Chemical Processing, April, 2000.

"Theme Park Rides New Valve to Balanced Chiller System", Engineered Systems, May 2000.

"Shell and Tube Heat Exchanger Design, Enhancement, and Repair", Chemical Online, August, 2000.

"Mixer Designs Benefit from Computational Fluid Dynamics", Chemical Online, September, 2000.

"Precise Control Enhances Chiller Efficiency", Consulting-Specifying Engineer, September, 2000.

"Equality in the Workplace?", Woman Engineer, Fall 2000.

"Common Mistakes in Water Treatment", Chemical Online, November, 2000.

"Liquid Ejectors Show Great Performance in Gas Evacuation and Compression", Chemical Online, March 2001.

"Drying Technologies in the Chemical Industry", Chemical Online, April, 2001.

"The Disc Pump Excels at Pumping Hard-To-Handle Fluids", Chemical Online, May, 2001.

"Pulsair Mixer Offers Thorough Mixing at High Efficiency", Chemical Online, May, 2001.

"Corrosion Control Chemistry", The Maritime Executive Magazine, March/April, 2010.

"New Developments in Maritime Software", The Maritime Executive Magazine, July/August, 2010.

"The Brave New World of Subsea Salvage", The Maritime Executive Magazine, September/October, 2010.

"Advances in Clean Marine Propulsion", The Maritime Executive Magazine, November/December, 2010.



 

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