Particle Scale Evaluation of the Effective Thermal Conductivity from the Structure of a Packed Bed: Radiation Heat Transfer

2013 ◽  
Vol 52 (34) ◽  
pp. 12202-12211 ◽  
Author(s):  
G. J. Cheng ◽  
A. B. Yu
2011 ◽  
Vol 48 (4) ◽  
pp. 532-542 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marie-Hélène Fillion ◽  
Jean Côté ◽  
Jean-Marie Konrad

This paper presents an experimental study on thermal radiation and the thermal conductivity of rock-fill materials using a 1 m × 1 m × 1 m heat transfer cell. Testing temperatures are applied by temperature-controlled fluid circulation at the top and bottom of the sample. Heat flux and temperature profiles are measured to establish the effective thermal conductivity λe, which includes contributions from both conduction and radiation heat transfer mechanisms. The materials studied had an equivalent particle size (d10) ranging from 90 to 100 mm and porosity (n) ranging from 0.37 to 0.41. The experimental results showed that thermal radiation greatly affects the effective thermal conductivity of materials with λe values ranging from 0.71 to 1.02 W·m−1·K−1, compared with a typical value of 0.36 W·m−1·K−1 for conduction alone. As expected, the effective thermal conductivity increased with particle size. An effective thermal conductivity model has been proposed, and predictions have been successfully compared with the experimental results. Radiation heat transfer becomes significant for d10 higher than 10 mm and predominant at values higher than 90 mm. The results of the study also suggest that the cooling potential of convection embankments used to preserve permafrost conditions may not be as efficient as expected because of ignored radiation effects.


2015 ◽  
Vol 2015 ◽  
pp. 1-7 ◽  
Author(s):  
Swaren Bedarkar ◽  
Nurni Neelakantan Viswanathan ◽  
Nidambur Bharatha Ballal

Heat transfer in packed beds and their thermal response have been of great interest for scientists and engineers for the last several years, since they play a crucial role in determining design and operation of reactors. Heat transfer of a packed bed is characterised through lumped parameter, namely, effective thermal conductivity. In the present studies, experiments were performed to investigate the thermal conductivity of a packed bed in radial direction. The packed bed was formed using iron ore particles. To determine the effective thermal conductivity a new transient methodology is proposed. The results obtained were compared with the models proposed by ZBS and Kunii and Smith.


Energies ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 12 (9) ◽  
pp. 1666 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jian Yang ◽  
Yingxue Hu ◽  
Qiuwang Wang

In the present paper, the effective thermal conductivities of Li4SiO4-packed beds with both ordered and random packing structures were investigated using thermal resistance network methods based on both an Ohm’s law model and a Kirchhoff’s law model. The calculation results were also validated and compared with the numerical and experimental results. Firstly, it is proved that the thermal resistance network method based on the Kirchhoff’s law model proposed in the present study is reliable and accurate for prediction of effective thermal conductivities in a Li4SiO4-packed bed, while the results calculated with the Ohm’s law model underestimate both ordered and random packings. Therefore, when establishing a thermal resistance network, the thermal resistances should be connected along the main heat transfer direction and other heat transfer directions as well in the packing unit. Otherwise, both the total heat flux and effective thermal conductivity in the packing unit will be underestimated. Secondly, it is found that the effect of the packing factor is remarkable. The effective thermal conductivity of a packed bed would increase as the packing factor increases. Compared with random packing at similar packing factor, the effective thermal conductivity of packed bed would be further improved with an ordered packing method.


1976 ◽  
Vol 19 (134) ◽  
pp. 973-979 ◽  
Author(s):  
Masaaki KURIYAMA ◽  
Kozo KATAYAMA ◽  
Yoshiyuki TAKUMA ◽  
Yasushi HASEGAWA

2019 ◽  
Vol 30 (4) ◽  
pp. 1815-1837
Author(s):  
Mehdi Zare ◽  
Sadegh Sadeghi

Purpose This study aims to perform a comprehensive investigation to model the thermal characteristics of a coupled conduction-radiation heat transfer in a two-dimensional irregular enclosure including a triangular-shaped heat source. Design/methodology/approach For this purpose, a promising hybrid technique based on the concepts of blocked-off method, FVM and DOM is developed. The enclosure consists of several horizontal, vertical and oblique walls, and thermal conductivity within the enclosure varies directly with temperature and indirectly with position. To simplify the complex geometry, a promising mathematical model is introduced using blocked-off method. Emitting, absorbing and non-isotropic scattering gray are assumed as the main radiative characteristics of the steady medium. Findings DOM and FVM are, respectively, applied for solving radiative transfer equation (RTE) and the energy equation, which includes conduction, radiation and heat source terms. The temperature and heat flux distributions are calculated inside the enclosure. For validation, results are compared with previous data reported in the literature under the same conditions. Results and comparisons show that this approach is highly efficient and reliable for complex geometries with coupled conduction-radiation heat transfer. Finally, the effects of thermo-radiative parameters including surface emissivity, extinction coefficient, scattering albedo, asymmetry factor and conduction-radiation parameter on temperature and heat flux distributions are studied. Originality/value In this paper, a hybrid numerical method is used to analyze coupled conduction-radiation heat transfer in an irregular geometry. Varying thermal conductivity is included in this analysis. By applying the method, results obtained for temperature and heat flux distributions are presented and also validated by the data provided by several previous papers.


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