COMMIX-PPC: A three-dimensional transient multicomponent computer program for analyzing performance of power plant condensers

Technical Report · Mon Feb 01 04:00:00 EST 1993

DOI:https://doi.org/10.2172/6552961· OSTI ID:6552961

Chien, T H; Domanus, H M; Sha, W T

The COMMIX-PPC computer program is an extended and improved version of earlier COMMIX codes and is specifically designed for evaluating the thermal performance of power plant condensers. The COMMIX codes are general-purpose computer programs for the analysis of fluid flow and heat transfer in complex industrial systems. In COMMIX-PPC, two major features have been added to previously published COMMIX codes. One feature is the incorporation of one-dimensional conservation of mass. momentum, and energy equations on the tube side, and the proper accounting for the thermal interaction between shell and tube side through the porous medium approach. The other added feature is the extension of the three-dimensional conservation equations for shell-side flow to treat the flow of a multicomponent medium. COMMIX-PPC is designed to perform steady-state and transient three-dimensional analysis of fluid flow with heat transfer in a power plant condenser. However, the code is designed in a generalized fashion so that, with some modification. it can be used to analyze processes in any heat exchanger or other single-phase engineering applications.

• Research Organization: Argonne National Lab., IL (United States)
• Sponsoring Organization: TAIPC; Taiwan Power Co., Taipei (Taiwan, Province of China)
• DOE Contract Number: W-31109-ENG-38
• OSTI ID: 6552961
• Report Number(s): ANL-92/2-Vol.2; ON: DE93012309
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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