Is it feasible to replace the medium in the steam coil with hot water?
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This post was last edited by Simply put_myP89 on 2021-6-16 09:12. The current situation is as follows. The original system used superheated steam for heat exchange through coils; now, is it possible to replace the superheated steam with hot water? Seeing Haiyou’s reply, I guess I didn’t explain myself clearly enough. Let me add that this is of course on the premise that the heat load remains unchanged; for example, if it was originally 1 ton of steam and now it’s changed to 15 tons of hot water, that’s the situation.
It definitely won’t work. The enthalpy of steam is much greater than that of hot water. After switching to hot water, it fails to meet the technical parameter requirements of the medium being heated.
That’s truly whimsical – you want to exchange 1 kg of iron for 1 kg of gold?
Definitely not; the heat enthalpy values are different, the flow rates are different, and the heat transfer coefficients are also different
Ask the manufacturer to do the calculations for you and you’ll know; it’s highly likely it won’t work.