Steady state modeling of steam condensate cooler
Department of Chemical/Petrochemical Engineering, Rivers State University, Port Harcourt, Nigeria.
Research Article
GSC Advanced Engineering and Technology, 2021, 01(02), 001–006.
Article DOI: 10.30574/gscaet.2021.1.2.0031
Publication history:
Received on 20 April 2021; revised on 22 May 2021; accepted on 24 May 2021
Abstract:
Mathematical models for steam condensate cooler were developed. The models were deduced by applying the principle of conservation of energy and yielded an ordinary differential equation, which were solved by using MatLab ODE45 solver and validated using industrial data of a fertilizer company. The result gives minimum percentage absolute error or deviation between model predictions and industrial plant of 0.09% and 0.10% respectively for hot and cold fluid outlet temperature. These shows that the developed model predicted the fluid outlet temperature of the steam condensate cooler closely and the models were used to study the effects of process parameters such as fluid inlet flow rate and heat transfer coefficient on the performance of the steam condensate cooler.
Keywords:
Condensate Cooler; Hot Fluid; Cold Fluid; Polisher; Steady Stat
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