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Tube Metal Temperature Profile

Thread starter AndreChE
Start date Dec 7, 2004

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Dec 7, 2004

AndreChE

Chemical

Hello everyone

How can I calculate the tube wall (metal) temperature profile in an ethane cracking furnace. I want to calculate the heatflux along the coil by Q=U*(Tw - T) but I don't know how to calculate the Tw profile along the coil.

Can anyone help me? It's urgent.

AndreChE