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Gas Side Pressure Drop Across Finned Tubes


Gas Side Pressure Drop Across Finned Tubes

The gas side pressure drop may be calculated by any number of methods available today, but the following procedures should give sufficient results for HRSG design. Refer to the previous pages for source of the correlations.

Coil Data
Tube outside dia., in: Tube length, ft:
Number of tubes wide: Number of rows:
Trans. pitch of tubes, in: Long. pitch of tubes, in:
Fin height, in: Fin thickness, in:
Fins density, fins/in: Fin type:
Tube layout: Corbels:
Process Data
Mass flow, lb/hr: Bulk density of gas, lb/ft3:
Inlet density of gas, lb/ft3: Outlet density of gas, lb/ft3:
Bulk viscosity of gas, lb/hr-ft:
Pressure Drop, inH2O:

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