Meaningful, yet often hidden thermal performance losses occur in feedwater ... If the heater condensate level is higher than design, the active condensing zone is effectively decreased and tubes ...

Finally, steam condensate enters the optional drain cooling zone, where it is subcooled below the saturation temperature by the incoming feedwater ... subcooling condensate in the upstream heater ...

At one time or another, most purchasers, operators and maintainers of closed feedwater heaters ... in the condensing zone, and that the tube metal temperatures in the subcooling and desuperheating ...

CLEVELAND - The Tube Section of The Heat Exchange Institute Inc. (HEI) released a new technical document, Accepted Practices for Packaging, Transportation, Shipping, and Handling of U-Bend and ...

MONITORING OF THE SHELL wall thickness of feedwater heaters at Wolf Creek Nuclear Generating Station in Kansas in 2003 revealed erosion of three of the 12 low-pressure feedwater heater shells.