Increasing Condenser Capacity Without Adding Tubes to Support a Station Uprate

2010 ◽  
Author(s):  
Warren C. Welch ◽  
Timothy J. Harpster ◽  
Joseph W. Harpster
Keyword(s):  
Heat Transfer ◽  
Heat Transfer Coefficient ◽  
Transfer Coefficient ◽  
Surface Area ◽  
Low Cost ◽  
Cooling Water ◽  
Steam Generation ◽  
Before And After ◽  
Generation Capacity ◽  
Almost All

A station uprate provides an economical opportunity to improve the generation capacity of a power plant if all the major system components are able to handle the effects of increased generation. The magnitude of uprate from increased steam generation will be limited by the maximum capacity of the weakest link in the cycle, which for many plants is the condenser. The condensers on many units are already pushed to their limit. This is especially true if a cooling tower is employed, where the condenser inlet cooling water temperatures are high on high wet-bulb temperature days. This condition forces many units to throttle down load to prevent excursions above the backpressure limits on their turbines. For condensers limited by the present duty, however, the options have been historically limited to rebundling the whole condenser with a larger surface area design and perhaps changing the tube material to a material with a higher heat transfer coefficient. Recently, a very low cost option has been demonstrated that should be considered by any plant looking to increase condenser duty or prevent station power reductions. Advances in the proper management of steam, condensate and noncondensable flows have permitted an upgrade for almost all vintage condensers, unlocking inactive surface area without a bundle replacement or complete redesign. This paper reports the results of a condenser retrofit effort, with emphasis on an upgrade applied to a load limited condenser concurrent with a major reduction in its operating backpressure. The performance of the condenser is presented before and after the upgrade showing significant backpressure reduction and heat transfer improvement accompanied by exceptional condensate chemistry results. It will be shown that 30% of the effective condenser surface area (or similarly, an additional 30% average heat transfer coefficient) was unlocked by activating the previously idle surface area.

scholarly journals Heat-Up Performance of Catalyst Carriers—A Parameter Study and Thermodynamic Analysis

Energies ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 14 (4) ◽  
pp. 964
Author(s):  
Thomas Steiner ◽  
Daniel Neurauter ◽  
Peer Moewius ◽  
Christoph Pfeifer ◽  
Verena Schallhart ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Heat Transfer ◽  
Heat Transfer Coefficient ◽  
Transfer Coefficient ◽  
Surface Area ◽  
Internal Surface ◽  
Installation Space ◽  
Parameter Study ◽  
Thin Wall ◽  
Primary Role ◽  
Internal Surface Area

This study investigates geometric parameters of commercially available or recently published models of catalyst substrates for passenger vehicles and provides a numerical evaluation of their influence on heat-up behavior. Parameters considered to have a significant impact on the thermal economy of a monolith are: internal surface area, heat transfer coefficient, and mass of the converter, as well as its heat capacity. During simulation experiments, it could be determined that the primary role is played by the mass of the monolith and its internal surface area, while the heat transfer coefficient only has a secondary role. Furthermore, an optimization loop was implemented, whereby the internal surface area of a commonly used substrate was chosen as a reference. The lengths of the thin wall and high cell density monoliths investigated were adapted consecutively to obtain the reference internal surface area. The results obtained by this optimization process contribute to improving the heat-up performance while simultaneously reducing the valuable installation space required.

Research on Thermal Deformation State of Mould Copper Plate with Different CC Technical Parameters

2011 ◽  
Vol 117-119 ◽  
pp. 949-953
Author(s):  
Li Gen Sun ◽  
Hui Rong Li ◽  
Jia Quan Zhang
Keyword(s):  
Heat Transfer ◽  
Heat Transfer Coefficient ◽  
Transfer Coefficient ◽  
Casting Speed ◽  
Process Analysis ◽  
Great Influence ◽  
Cooling Water ◽  
Equivalent Strain ◽  
Steel Shell ◽  
Deformation State

Heat transfer coefficient, temperature of cooling water and casting speed have definitely influence for the mould thermal state, especially with the high temperature. The coupled visco-elasto-plastic FEM models have been presented for thermal process analysis of steel shell and the mould copper plates. It is shown that, the heat transfer coefficient and the temperature of cooling water have little influence to the maximum equivalent mises stress and equivalent strain of the mould; but the casting speed has a great influence, with the increasing casting speed from 1.0 to 1.6 m/min, equivalent mises stress creasing rate is reached to 8.7%, and the equivalent strain is also getting smaller.

Flow Boiling Heat Transfer Coefficient of DI-Water/SiO2 Nanofluid Inside a 1.1 mm Round Microchannel

2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tiago A. Moreira ◽  
Francisco J. do Nascimento ◽  
Gherhardt Ribatski
Keyword(s):  
Heat Transfer ◽  
Heat Transfer Coefficient ◽  
Transfer Coefficient ◽  
Single Phase ◽  
Flow Boiling ◽  
Volumetric Concentration ◽  
Nanoparticle Layer ◽  
Flow Boiling Heat Transfer ◽  
Before And After ◽  
The Heat Transfer Coefficient

The scope of the present paper is the evaluation of the heat transfer coefficient during flow boiling of DI-water/silica nanofluid inside a 1.1 mm ID tube. The experiments were performed for nanoparticles and DI-water with both having thermal conductivities of the same order of magnitude (kDI-water = 0.6 W/mK, ksilica = 1.4 W/mK). So, it was possible investigating the effect of the nanoparticles on the heat transfer coefficient under condition of negligible thermal conductivity enhancement. Experiments were carried out for mass velocities of 200, 400 and 600 kg/m2s, heat fluxes from 60 kW/m2 to 350 kW/m2 and nanoparticles volumetric concentration of 0.001%, 0.01% and 0.1%. Moreover, flow boiling heat transfer data under similar experimental conditions were obtained for DI-water without nanoparticles before and after performing each nanofluid test. The experiments were performed at the same test section according to the following sequence: i) DI-water, ii) 0.001% vol. nanofluid, iii) DI-water, iv) 0.01% vol. nanofluid, v) DI-water, vi) 0.1% vol. nanofluid, and vii) DI-water. Such procedure was adopted in order to evaluate the influence of the deposition of nanoparticles at each concentration on the heat transfer coefficient. For single-phase flow the HTC decreases as the experiments were performed. The thermal resistance due to deposition of nanoparticles is relevant to the heat transfer coefficient for single-phase flow of nanofluids inside microchannels. The flow boiling HTC decreases with increasing the nanoparticle volumetric concentration from a concentration of 0.001%. Based on the flow boiling HTC behaviors for tests with pure DI-water before and after the nanofluid tests, the fact that the HTC decreases with increasing the nanoparticle volumetric concentration is not explained only by the deposition on the surface of a nanoparticle layer. Tests for pure DI-water before the tests of nanofluids (BBN condition) and after all the nanofluids tests (ABN 0.1% condition) presents similar heat transfer coefficients, despite the deposition of a nanoparticle layer on the surface.

Experimental Study of Heat Transfer in Horizontal Gas-Liquid Intermittent Flow

2010 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ivan Noville ◽  
Antonio C. Bannwart
Keyword(s):  
Heat Transfer ◽  
Heat Transfer Coefficient ◽  
Transfer Coefficient ◽  
Flow Pattern ◽  
Mechanistic Model ◽  
Cooling Water ◽  
Intermittent Flow ◽  
Production Flow ◽  
Two Phase ◽  
Experimental Apparatus

The present work is aimed at the experimental measurement of the two-phase heat transfer coefficient in the intermittent horizontal gas-liquid flow pattern, as well as its comparison with some existing correlations. The intermittent flow pattern is very common in oil production flow lines. In order to reach this objective an experimental apparatus was built, consisting of a 5 cm i.d., 6.0 m long pipe test section fed up with several air-water mixtures pre-heated at different inlet temperatures. Heat transfer was accomplished by surrounding the pipe with a cooling water jacket under various inlet flow rates and temperatures, flowing co-currently with the central pipe gas-liquid mixture. The heat transfer coefficient was experimentally determined and compared with four published correlations. Among then, a mechanistic model was selected for further improvement, with very satisfactory results.

scholarly journals Determination of long-term permissible currents in wires of power supply systems of railways

2019 ◽  
Vol 78 (2) ◽  
pp. 90-95 ◽  
Author(s):  
E. P. FIGURNOV ◽  
Yu. I. ZHARKOV ◽  
V. I. KHARCHEVNIKOV
Keyword(s):  
Heat Transfer ◽  
Heat Transfer Coefficient ◽  
Solar Radiation ◽  
Transfer Coefficient ◽  
Surface Area ◽  
Meteorological Conditions ◽  
The Body ◽  
Additional Heating ◽  
The Heat Transfer Coefficient

In the standard for contact wires made from copper and its alloys, the values of long-term permissible temperatures have significantly decreased. This requires recalculation of previously valid values of long-term permissible currents. Authors considered revised method for calculating the long-term permissible currents, based on a more rigorous consideration of the laws of heat transfer and experimental studies of the conditions of heating and cooling of shaped (contact) and stranded wires. Technique is based on heat balance conditions, using which the sources of greatest inaccuracies become such quantities as cooled surface area, influence of wind direction, meteorological conditions, laws of change in heat transfer coefficient, effect on additional heating of solar radiation. Deviations when these indicators are taken into account by existing methods can cause errors of 40 % or more. Formulas for calculating the actual outer surface of stranded and shaped wires are given. The inadmissibility of calculating the surface area of the wires by their reference diameter is noted. Updated law of the change in heat transfer coefficient for stranded and shaped wires, as well as the degree of its dependence on wind speed and cooled surface, is given based on a summary of extensive domestic and foreign research. It is shown that with the longitudinal direction of the wind, the reduction of this coefficient occurs to a lesser extent than has been assumed so far. Authors propose method for taking into account an increase in the heat transfer coefficient under meteorological conditions characteristic of ice formation. The heat transfer coefficient of shaped and stranded wires in no case can not be taken as for round pipes with smooth surface. Existing method of accounting for solar radiation, which influences the additional heating of wires, leads to an unjustified and repeated exaggeration of this effect, since previously only the radiation incident on the wire was taken into account in the calculations. According to the laws of heat transfer, the temperature of the irradiated body does not depend on the incident, but on the resulting radiation, defined as the difference between the radiations incident on the body and emitted by it in accordance with its temperature. A formula for accounting for such heat transfer is proposed. The above methodology and calculation formulas allow performing reasonable calculations to determine the long-term permissible currents of individual stranded and shaped wires, as well as the contact network as a whole.

A General Approach to Analysis of Flow and Heat Transfer in Packed Beds

2008 ◽  
Author(s):  
Aleksander Vadnjal ◽  
Ivan Catton
Keyword(s):  
Heat Transfer ◽  
Heat Transfer Coefficient ◽  
Transfer Coefficient ◽  
Friction Factor ◽  
Surface Area ◽  
Hydraulic Diameter ◽  
Experimental Results ◽  
Transfer Coefficients ◽  
Internal Surface Area ◽  
The Media

It is postulated that proper scaling will collapse the multiplicity of data for friction and heat transfer coefficient to a usable reasonably general formulation by choosing the hydraulic diameter as Dh=4·〈m〉Sw where <m> is the average porosity and Sw is the surface area per unit volume. The chosen hydraulic diameter allows the transformation and comparison of correlation equations and experimental results obtained for diverse media morphologies. Also, it allows experimentally-determined characteristics of the media to be related to the closure relationship derived from the VAT analysis. The numerical results of closure are presented and are compared to various experimental results. The Nusselt number is based on the media internal local surface average transfer coefficient and the friction factor is the local internal value. Results obtained by VAT closure using direct numerical simulation show reasonable agreement between calculated local friction factors and local heat transfer coefficients and data confirming that the friction factor and heat transfer coefficient when correctly scaled can be computed numerically with satisfactory results. This conclusion will enable one to optimize the effectiveness of a compact heat exchanger in terms of porosity and internal surface area.

Heat Transfer With Insulated Combustion Chamber Walls and Its Influence on the Performance of Diesel Engines

1988 ◽  
Vol 110 (3) ◽  
pp. 482-488 ◽  
Author(s):  
G. Woschni ◽  
W. Spindler
Keyword(s):  
Heat Transfer ◽  
Heat Transfer Coefficient ◽  
Transfer Coefficient ◽  
Combustion Chamber ◽  
Fuel Consumption ◽  
Temperature Difference ◽  
Wall Temperature ◽  
Cooling Water ◽  
Great Expectations ◽  
The Heat Transfer Coefficient

Recently great expectations were put into the insulation of combustion chamber walls. A considerable reduction in fuel consumption, a marked reduction of the heat flow to the cooling water, and a significant increase of exhaust gas energy were predicted. In the meantime there exists an increasing number of publications reporting on significant increase of fuel consumption with total or partial insulation of the combustion chamber walls. In [1] a physical explanation of this effect is given: Simultaneously with the decrease of the temperature difference between gas and wall as a result of insulation, the heat transfer coefficient between gas and wall increases rapidly due to increasing wall temperature, thus overcompensating for the decrease in temperature difference between gas and wall. Hence a modified equation for calculation of the heat transfer coefficient was presented [1]. In the paper to be presented here, recent experimental results are reported that confirm the effects demonstrated in [1], including the influence of the heat transfer coefficient, which depends on the wall temperature, on the performance of naturally aspirated and turbocharged engines.

Investigation on Shell-Side Performance of Heat Exchanger With Axially Staggered Overlap Helical Baffles

2010 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shui Ji ◽  
Wenjing Du ◽  
Lin Cheng
Keyword(s):  
Heat Transfer ◽  
Heat Transfer Coefficient ◽  
Heat Exchanger ◽  
Pressure Drop ◽  
Transfer Coefficient ◽  
Low Cost ◽  
Convection Heat Transfer ◽  
Working Fluid ◽  
Shell Side ◽  
Open Issue

Since its appearance in the 80’s of the 20th century, the heat exchanger with helical baffles (HEHBs) has attracted lots of attention. Benefiting from its relatively simple manufacture procedure and low cost, the heat exchanger with overlapped helical baffles receives much concern. However, there are few reports on the influence of the specific overlap size of helical baffles on the shell-side heat transfer performance and fluid friction property. In this paper, numerical investigation on this open issue is carried out by means of numerical method. The emphasis is laid on the relationship between the overlap size of helical baffles and the shell-side performance. Baffles with the shape of a quarter-ellipse are simulated and the heat-transfer oil is selected as the working fluid. Results show that in the condition of same helix angles and same flow rates, 10% increase of the specific overlap size brings an increase of 23–42% on the pressure drop and an increase of 2–8% on the convection heat transfer coefficient; hence the corresponding heat transfer coefficient pre unit pressure drop is decreased by 11–22%. Compared with the continuously overlap configuration, the axially staggered overlap helical baffles can improve the comprehensive performance of HEHBs on the condition of an identical helical pitch, and hence it is favorable for the situation with strict constrain on pressure drop.

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