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Original Articles

Experimental facility to measure heat transfer and pressure drop of boiling zeotropic multi-component mixtures in a horizontal tube

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Pages 2-14 | Received 05 Feb 2015, Accepted 19 May 2015, Published online: 14 Sep 2015

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