Effect of vapor condensation on forced convection heat transfer of moistened gas |
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Authors: | Yongbin Liang Defu Che Yanbin Kang |
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Institution: | (1) School of Energy and Power Engineering, Xi’an Jiaotong University, Xian, 710049, China |
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Abstract: | The forced convection heat transfer with water vapor condensation is studied both theoretically and experimentally when wet
flue gas passes downwards through a bank of horizontal tubes. Extraordinarily, discussions are concentrated on the effect
of water vapor condensation on forced convection heat transfer. In the experiments, the air–steam mixture is used to simulate
the flue gas of a natural gas fired boiler, and the vapor mass fraction ranges from 3.2 to 12.8%. By theoretical analysis,
a new dimensionless number defined as augmentation factor is derived to account for the effect of condensation of relatively
small amount of water vapor on convection heat transfer, and a consequent correlation is proposed based on the experimental
data to describe the combined convection–condensation heat transfer. Good agreement can be found between the values of the
Nusselt number obtained from the experiments and calculated by the correlation. The maximum deviation is within ±6%. The experimental
results also shows that the convection–condensation heat transfer coefficient increases with Reynolds number and bulk vapor
mass fraction, and is 1∼3.5 times that of the forced convection without condensation. |
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