A Sulphuric-Acid-Resistant Heat Exchanger for Venus Surface Plant: Duty and Surface Sizing

This study sizes a Sulphuric-Acid-Resistant Heat Exchanger for Venus Surface Plant for operation in the Venus surface environment and reports the result as SIMULATED, NOT MEASURED. The design is developed from stated physical relations and a shared environmental basis, and every performance figure is computed by the deposited script rather than asserted. Among the computed results are heat duty of 60000.0 watts, hot stream mass flow of 0.474 kilograms per second, log mean temperature difference of 66.7 kelvin, heat transfer surface of 3.75 square metres. Mass and power budgets are assembled from components so that they can be audited, off-design behaviour and materials uncertainty are discussed openly, and the limits of the sizing are stated in full. The system is a civilian science and construction design intended for a robotically serviced surface station.