Determine the pressure drop across the tube bank
Air is to be heated by passing it over a bank of 4-m-long tubes inside which steam is condensing at 100°C. Air approaches the tube bank in the normal direction at 20°C and 1 atm with a mean velocity of 5.2 m/s. The outer diameter of the tubes is 0.016 m, and the tubes are arranged staggered with longitudinal and transverse pitches of SL = ST = 0.03 m. There are 20 rows in the flow direction with 10 tubes in each row. Assume the air properties at mean temperature of 35°C and 1 atm. The air properties at the assumed mean temperature of 35°C and 1 atm are k = 0.02625 W/m·K, ρ = 1.145 kg/m3, cp = 1.007 kJ/kg·K, Pr = 0.7268, μ = 1.895 × 10−5 kg/m·s, Prs = Pr@Ts = 100°C = 0.7111.
Determine the pressure drop across the tube bank
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