An experimental investigation on forced convection condensation of saturated steam inside a horizontal tube was performed. The influences of steam quality
inlet steam velocity
and inlet steam pressure on condensation heat transfer were analyzed for annular-semiannular and wavy flows. A correlation for the local heat transfer coefficient of saturated steam condensation along a horizontal tube for both annular-semiannular and wavy flows was developed. For both annular-semiannular and wavy flows
local heat transfer coefficient decreased with steam quality and steam pressure. However
local heat transfer coefficient increased with inlet steam velocity for annular-semiannular flow while decreased with inlet steam velocity for wavy flow. The new correlation showed good agreement with experimental results with an error of 20% between calculated and experimental results.