A critical review of heat transfer enhancement techniques for use in marine condensers

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Authors
Nunn, Robert H.
Marto, P.J.
Subjects
Finned Tubes
Dropwise Condensation
Heat Transfer Enhancement
Condensers
Advisors
Date of Issue
1982-09
Date
1982-09
Publisher
Monterey, California. Naval Postgraduate School
Language
en_US
Abstract
A variety of heat transfer enhancement techniques are reviewed and evaluated for use in marine condensers. This review includes tube-side enhancement, as well as shell-side enhancement techniques. At present, the most promising technique to enhance heat transfer on the tube side is with one of the commercially available, mildly indented, corrugated tubes. With this type of tube, the shell-side heat transfer enhancement is not as large and is uncertain due to the, as yet determined, complex effects of vapor shear and condensate inundation. Large bundle tests with enhanced tubing are therefore required before the details of tube-to-tube interaction will be fully understood. (Author)
Type
Technical Report
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NPS Report Number
NPS69-82-006
Sponsors
supported by the David W, Taylor Naval Ship Research and Development Center under Work Request No, N00167-82-WR2-0114,
Funder
N0167-82-WR2-0114
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NA
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This publication is a work of the U.S. Government as defined in Title 17, United States Code, Section 101. Copyright protection is not available for this work in the United States.
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