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The effect of deposits on the tubes of a horizontal steam generator on its thermal-hydraulic characteristics

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Analytical relations are obtained for estimating how the distributions of temperature and heat flux vary along a steam-generating tube and how the steam-generator power output reduces due to formation and accumulation of deposits.

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Original Russian Text © Yu.S. Yur’ev, A.A. Luk’yanov, V.B. Smykov, 2007, published in Teploenergetika.

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Yur’ev, Y.S., Luk’yanov, A.A. & Smykov, V.B. The effect of deposits on the tubes of a horizontal steam generator on its thermal-hydraulic characteristics. Therm. Eng. 54, 994–999 (2007). https://doi.org/10.1134/S0040601507120087

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