Integrating Electrical Heating Elements in Appliance Design (Electrical Engineering & Electronics)

This practical guide offers constructive details on the utilization of electrical heating elements in consumer appliance design and industrial processes - including basic theory, metallurgy, and production advice essential for developing more reliable and cost-effective heaters. Helpfully supplemented with numerous examples and nearly 1000 references, illustrations, photographs, equations, and tables. Integrating Electrical Heating Elements in Appliance Design is ideal for electrical and electronics, appliance design, heating element design, consumer product design, production process design, and manufacturing engineers; quality assurance personnel; and graduate-level students in these disciplines 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.