M. Gh. Mohammed Kamil1,*, M. S. Kassim1, R. A. Mahmood2,3, L. AZ Mahdi4
FDMP-Fluid Dynamics & Materials Processing, Vol.18, No.4, pp. 985-998, 2022, DOI:10.32604/fdmp.2022.018938
Abstract This work investigates the steam condensation phenomena in an air-cooled condenser. The considered horizontal flattened tube has a 30 mm hydraulic diameter, and its length is a function of the steam quality with a limit value between 0.95 and 0.05. The mass flow rate ranges from 4 to 40 kg/m2.s with a saturated temperature spanning an interval from 40°C to 80°C. A special approach has been implemented using the Engineering Equation Solver (EES) to solve a series of equations for the two-phase flow pattern and the related heat transfer coefficients. A wavy-stratified structure of the two-phase flow More >