The Minimum Pressure Drop Caused by the Condensation of Water Vapor in the Cooled Air Flowing in the Inclined Conduit

The paper presents methodology for determining water mass and pressure drop in ducts with fixed co-current and no-slip two-phase flow. The dispersed liquid phase (water) is present in the air as a result of wet air from underground excavations being distributed in some sections of a discharge pathway, or local water mass sources (or its local outlets) formed by the natural phenomenon of water vapor condensation. For such cases, static pressure losses were determined, which resulted from the force of gravity of the mass of water droplets occurring in the air stream in the duct.