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Heating Coil - Steam Consumption

Steam-consumption rate for cargo-heating coils - duty / (h_sat - h_condensate).

Heating coilSteamRate
Steam rate
796kg/h

Formula, assumptions, and limits

h_sat from IAPWS tables. 500 kW duty at 5 bar steam saturated ~800 kg/h. Multiple-heating tanks drives auxiliary-boiler sizing; fired-boiler + waste-heat economiser combined.

Symbol legend

SymbolMeaningUnitSource
Steam enthalpy at saturationkJ/kgIAPWS-IF97