Abstract: The aim of this study was to predict the fouling resistance (FR) using the artificial neural networks (ANN) approach. An experimental database collected from the literature regarding the fouling of condenser tubes cooling seawater of a nuclear power plant was used to build the ANN model. All models contained 7 inputs: dimensionless condenser cooling seawater temperature, dimensionless inside overall heat transfer coefficient, dimensionless outside overall heat transfer coefficient, dimensionless condenser temperature, dimensionless condenser pr...
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Process engineering