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Damage, sources of heat exchangers Damkohler number: Damping: Davis and Anderson criterion, for onset of nucleate boiling, Decal, heat transfer medium, Decane: 1-Decanol: 1-Decene: Degradation temperature, of polymers, Demisters, wire mesh, for multistage flash evaporators, Dengler and Addoms correlation, for forced convective heat transfer in two-phase flow, Density: Deposition of droplets in annular flow Deposition in fouling, Desalination plants: Desuperheaters for use in association with evaporators, Developing flow in ducts: Dew-poin corrosion, Diathermanous fluid, 1,1-Dibromoethane: Dibromomethane: 1,2-Dibromotetrafluoroethane (Refrigerant 114B2): Dibutylamine: Dibutyl ether: Dichloroacetic acid: o-Dichlorobenzene: Dichlorodifluoromethane (see Refrigerant 12) 1,1-Dichloroethane (Refrigerant 150a): 1,2-Dichloroethane (Refrigerant 150): 1,1-Dichloroethylene: cis-1,2-Dichloroethylene: trans-1,2-Dichloroethylene: Dichlorofluoromethane (see Refrigerant 21) Dichloromethane (Refrigerant 30): 1,2-Dichlorotetrafluoroethane (Refrigerant 114) 1,2,3-Dichlorotrifluoroethane (Refrigerant 123) Dielectric constant, of water, Diethylamine: n,n-Diethylaniline: Diethylene glycol: Diethyl ether: Diethyl ketone: Diethylsulfide: Differential condensation: Differential formulations for nonisothermal gas radiation, Differential resistance term in heat exchanger design, Differential vector operators in heat conduction, Diffraction models for radiative heat transfer from surfaces, Diffuse surfaces, radiative heat transfer between, Diffuse wall passages, radiative heat transfer in, Diffusers, single-phase flow and pressure drop in, Diffusion, in multi-component condensation, n,n-Diffusion coefficients: 1,1-Difluoroethane (Refrigerant 152a): Difluoromethane (Refrigerant 32): Diiodomethane: Diisobutylamine: Diisopropylamine: Diisopropylether: Dimensional analysis: Dimensionless groups: Dimethylacetylene: Dimethylamine: Dimethylaniline: 2,2-Dimethylbutane: 2,3-Dimethylbutane: 1,1-Dimethylcyclopentane: Dimethylether: Dimethylketone: 2,2-Dimethylpropane (neopentane): Dimethylsulfide: Dimpled surfaces, heat exchangers with, 1,4-Dioxane: Diphenyl: Diphenylamine: Diphenylether: Diphenylmethane: Dipropyl ether: Diisopropyl ether: Dipropyl ketone: Direct contact heat exchangers Direct contact heat transfer, Direct numerical simulation, of turbulence, Dirichlet boundary condition, finite difference method, Dished heads: Discretization in numerical analysis: Disk-and-doughnut baffled heat exchangers, Disks, free convective heat transfer from inclined, Dispersants, for fouling control, Dispersed flow (liquid-liquid), Dissipation of turbulent energy, Distillation: Distribution: Dittus-Boelter equation, for single-phase forced convective heat transfer, Dividing flow, loss coefficients in, Dodecane: 1-Dodecene: Donohue method, for shell-side heat transfer in shell-and-tube heat exchangers, Double-pipe heat exchangers: Double segmental baffled heat exchangers, Downward facing surfaces, free convective heat transfer from, Downward flow in vertical tubes, flow patterns in gas/liquid, Dowtherm A: Dowtherm J: Dowtherms, as heat transfer media, Drag coefficient: Drag force: Drag reduction, Drainage, of condensate, Dreitser, G, Drift flux model for two-phase flows, Drogemuller, P, Droplets: Dropwise condensation Dry wall desuperheating (in condensation), Dryers: Drying loft, Drying rates, prediction of, Dryout: Ducts, single-phase fluid flow and pressure drop in, Duplex stainless steels, Durand correlation for heterogeneous conveyance in solid/liquid flow, Dynamically stable foam, Dyphyl, heat transfer media, Dzyubenko, B,
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Dropwise Condensation

DOI 10.1615/hedhme.a.000188

2.6.5 Dropwise Condensation

A. Introduction

This mode of condensation occurs when a vapour condenses on a surface which is not wetted by the condensate. It has long been recognised that, for non-metal vapours, dropwise condensation gives much higher heat-transfer coefficients titan found with film condensation. For instance, in the absence of non-condensing gases, the heat-transfer coefficient for dropwise condensation of steam is around ten times that for film condensation at power station condenser pressures and more than twenty times that for film condensation at atmospheric pressure. In circumstances where the filmwise coefficient is of similar magnitude to that on the cooling side, a change of mode to dropwise condensation offers a potential improvement in overall coefficient by a factor of around 2. This has been verified by experiment as shown in Figure 1.

Figure 1 Overall heat-transfer coefficient for steam at atmospheric pressure condensing on a water-cooled horizontal aluminium tube (I.D. 9.7 mm, O.D. 12.8 mm). Vapour velocity 0.7 m/s. Non-condensing gas content < 30 ppm. Coolant temperature 20 °C. Promoter — 9 μm copper plate, dioctadecyl disulphide. [From data in Rose (1978)]

Clean metal surfaces are wetted by non-metallic liquids and film condensation is the mode which normally occurs in practice. Non-wetting agents, known as dropwise promoters, are needed to promote dropwise condensation. Unfortunately, sufficiently reliable promoting techniques have not yet been developed and dropwise condensation has not so far been used on an industrial scale to any significant extent. On the laboratory scale, however, dropwise condensation can be reliably obtained for long periods for steam and a few high surface tension organic fluids. Reviews of dropwise condensation heat transfer have been given by Le Fevre and Rose (1969), Tanasawa (1991), and Marto (1994).

B. Dropwise promoters

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