Gas-side fouling probe

Technical Report · Wed Apr 01 04:00:00 EST 1992

OSTI ID:5337497

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: DOE; USDOE, Washington, DC (United States)
• DOE Contract Number: AC02-83CH10093
• OSTI ID: 5337497
• Report Number(s): DOE/CH/10093-132; ON: DE92001217
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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DESIGN
EFFICIENCY
ENERGY CONSERVATION
ENERGY EFFICIENCY
FIELD TESTS
FLUID FLOW
FLUIDS
FOULING
GAS FLOW
GASES
HEAT EXCHANGERS
INDUSTRY
OPERATION
PROBES
TESTING
WASTE HEAT UTILIZATION
WASTE PRODUCT UTILIZATION