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Fouling factor and condenser water flow rate
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stanlsimon
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In general high flow rates should decrease the accumulation of crud on the inner tube surface. I am not aware of a mathematical relationship between flow rate and fouling factor. Most people simply pick a constant as a worst case fouling factor and oversize the surface area to handle it.
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