Gas-side fouling probe. A technical brief
Because performance degradation due to fouling is a persistent and costly problem with most industrial heat exchangers, a project at the Idaho National Engineering Laboratory (INEL) to fabricate and field test a gas-side fouling probe that measures the fouling potential of industrial gas streams and determines the resulting thermal resistance due to fouling was begun. The INEL effort is based on a probe design that was developed and tested by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory. The probe is applicable to any type of exhaust gas stream for which fouling deposits on heat-exchanger surfaces are a potential problem. Knowledge of fouling resistances gained by the use of this probe will allow the design of more efficient heat exchangers and heat-recovery systems, which should enable industry to realize significant energy and economic savings. The probe can also be used to measure the effect on fouling of changing fuel characteristics in a furnace.
- Research Organization:
- National Renewable Energy Lab., Golden, CO (United States); Energetics, Inc., Columbia, MD (United States)
- Sponsoring Organization:
- USDOE, Washington, DC (United States)
- DOE Contract Number:
- AC02-83CH10093
- OSTI ID:
- 10146335
- Report Number(s):
- DOE/CH/10093--132; ON: DE92001217
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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