Convective heat and mass transfer coefficient measurements and correlations for particle beds using temperature and humidity step changes with air flow through a test bed

2009 ◽  
Vol 64 (15) ◽  
pp. 3476-3485 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xiaodong Nie ◽  
Robert W. Besant ◽  
Richard W. Evitts
Keyword(s):  
Mass Transfer ◽  
Transfer Coefficient ◽  
Mass Transfer Coefficient ◽  
Heat And Mass Transfer ◽  
Convective Heat ◽  
Air Flow ◽  
Test Bed ◽  
Temperature And Humidity ◽  
Flow Through ◽  
Particle Beds

scholarly journals Development of mass and heat transfer coupled model of hollow fiber membrane for salt recovery from brine via osmotic membrane distillation

2021 ◽  
Vol 33 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Sher Ahmad ◽  
Gabriela Vollet Marson ◽  
Waheed Ur Rehman ◽  
Mohammad Younas ◽  
Sarah Farrukh ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Mass Transfer ◽  
Transfer Coefficient ◽  
Mass Transfer Coefficient ◽  
Heat And Mass Transfer ◽  
Hollow Fiber ◽  
Hollow Fiber Membrane ◽  
Membrane Distillation ◽  
Fiber Membrane ◽  
Salt Recovery ◽  
Osmotic Solution

Abstract Background In this research work, a coupled heat and mass transfer model was developed for salt recovery from concentrated brine water through an osmotic membrane distillation (OMD) process in a hollow fiber membrane contactor (HFMC).The model was built based on the resistance-in-series concept for water transport across the hydrophobic membrane. The model was adopted to incorporate the effects of polarization layers such as temperature and concentration polarization, as well as viscosity changes during concentration. Results The modeling equations were numerically simulated in MATLAB® and were successfully validated with experimental data from literature with a deviation within the range of 1–5%. The model was then applied to study the effects of key process parameters like feed concentrations, osmotic solution concentration, feed, and osmotic solution flow rates and feed temperature on the overall heat and mass transfer coefficient as well as on water transport flux to improve the process efficiency. The mass balance modeling was applied to calculate the membrane area based on the simulated mass transfer coefficient. Finally, a scale-up for the MD process for salt recovery on an industrial scale was proposed. Conclusions This study highlights the effect of key parameters for salt recovery from wastewater using the membrane distillation process. Further, the applicability of the OMD process for salt recovery on large scale was investigated. Sensitivity analysis was performed to identify the key parameters. From the results of this study, it is concluded that the OMD process can be promising in salt recovery from wastewater.

scholarly journals Performance of an internet data center refrigeration system using an evaporative cooler

2020 ◽  
Vol 194 ◽  
pp. 01027
Author(s):  
Shibo Zhao ◽  
Yonghui Zhang ◽  
Yunqi Nie ◽  
Pengyu Qu ◽  
Wenqiang Sun
Keyword(s):  
Heat Transfer ◽  
Mass Transfer ◽  
Heat Transfer Coefficient ◽  
Transfer Coefficient ◽  
Heat And Mass Transfer ◽  
Data Center ◽  
Air Flow ◽  
Water Volume ◽  
Evaporative Cooler ◽  
Internet Data Center

The traditional refrigeration method of internet data center (IDC) is mostly air refrigeration, which has undesired cooling effect and high power consumption. This study addresses this problem and proposes an evaporative air cooler (EAC) suitable for IDC. Given the high specific heat capacity of water, the evaporative condensing coil and spray device are added to the evaporative cooler to enhance the heat transfer effect. Heat and mass transfer mathematical models are established to analyze the heat transfer performance. The mathematical model is used to simulate the profile of the heat and mass transfer coefficient of the EAC with the amount of spray water and air flow. The results show that when the air flow changes from 10 to 20 kg/s, the air equivalent heat transfer coefficient increases by about 41%. When the air flow rate is 20 kg/s and the spray water volume is 0.00124 kg/(mꞏs), the total heat transfer coefficient is increased by about 308% compared with the case without spray water.

An Inverse Method for Drying at High Mass Transfer Biot Number

2003 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gligor H. Kanevce ◽  
Ljubica P. Kanevce ◽  
George S. Dulikravich ◽  
Marcelo J. Colac¸o
Keyword(s):  
Heat Transfer ◽  
Mass Transfer ◽  
Heat Transfer Coefficient ◽  
Transfer Coefficient ◽  
Mass Transfer Coefficient ◽  
Heat And Mass Transfer ◽  
Biot Number ◽  
Temperature Sensitivity ◽  
Sensitivity Coefficient ◽  
The Heat Transfer Coefficient

The inverse problem of using temperature measurements to estimate the moisture content and temperature-dependent moisture diffusivity together with the heat and mass transfer coefficients is analyzed in this paper. In the convective drying practice, usually the mass transfer Biot number is very high and the heat transfer Biot number is very small. This leads to a very small temperature sensitivity coefficient with respect to the mass transfer coefficient when compared to the temperature sensitivity coefficient with respect to the heat transfer coefficient. Under these conditions the relative error of the estimated mass transfer coefficient is high. To overcome this problem, in this paper the mass transfer coefficient is related to the heat transfer coefficient through the analogy between the heat and mass transfer processes in the boundary layer. The resulting parameter estimation problem is then solved by using a hybrid constrained optimization algorithm OPTRAN.

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