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ISSN Online: 2377-424X

ISBN Print: 978-1-56700-421-2

International Heat Transfer Conference 15
August, 10-15, 2014, Kyoto, Japan

A New Condensation Heat Transfer Model Based on the Flow Regime in a Nearly Horizontal Pipe.

Get access (open in a dialog) DOI: 10.1615/IHTC15.cds.009112
pages 605-616

Abstrakt

A new condensation heat transfer model based on the flow regime in the nearly horizontal pipe has been developed for the Passive Auxiliary Feed-water System (PAFS) of Korean Advanced Power Reactor Plus (APR+). This study focused on the stratified flow in horizontal pipes in which two different heat transfer mechanisms are involved. The void fraction was determined from the 1-D separated flow model (SFM) which incorporates closure relations for shear stress defined by single-phase based expressions and geometric relations for a concave interface using the eccentric circles. The wetted angle proposed by Hart’s correlation (1989) was used to classify flow regimes into annular, stratified-wavy and stratified-smooth flow. The new film condensation heat transfer correlation based on Nusselt’s integral analysis (1916) was proposed to predict the heat transfer coefficient affected by the vapor flow on the upper portion of pipe in the stratified flow. Furthermore, the convective heat transfer correlation for single-phase heat transfer was used to predict the heat transfer coefficient for condensate flowing on the entire perimeter of annular flow and the bottom of the stratified flow. Both heat transfer correlations use Reynolds number based on the phasic actual velocities and geometric variables obtained from SFM. Finally, the new condensation heat transfer model package was evaluated against available experimental data for water and it showed good results.