fin tube system

[317069]

Hello all

I have general question
can we estimat the capacity of a fin tube provided by hot water from a water heater(not from a heating boiler)the tube length is about 8 feet
Regards

 

[DrRTU]

If this is not a homework assignment, all BB manufactures publish data on flow rate, size and DT.

http://slantfin.com/documents/698.pdf.

 

[chicopee]

Your best bet is to find out who is the manufacturer for their catalog since hot water temperature, tube size and length, hot water flow velocity and ambient temperature will determine the info. you seek.

 

[willard3]

There are 100,000 pages of data from Mfgs with this data,l go look.

Here's one:

http://www.sterlingheat.com/

 

[ChrisConley]

Need to know the temperature of the water, temperature of the room, and the flow rate to estimate the capacity of the fin tube.

 

[MechEngNCPE]

if you know the delta t and the flow rate, you can get the capacity Q=mdotCp(dt)