scholarly journals Analytical solution and process analysis of energy pile’s heat transfer rate

2020 ◽  
Vol 205 ◽  
pp. 05026
Author(s):  
Jun Yang ◽  
Zhenguo Yan ◽  
Zhengwei Zhang ◽  
Shu Zeng

With the ever-increasing energy demand and implications of climate change, the use of energy piles to absorb shallow geothermal energy to regulate room temperature of buildings is considered the best sustainable energy technology, especially in China, and the use of this technology is becoming increasingly popular. At present, studies generally uses the temperature field to analyze the heat transfer performance of the energy pile, which cannot represent the heat transfer rate distribution intuitively. In this study, we used mathematical models to provide an analytical solution to determine the heat transfer rate distribution between the energy pile and surrounding soil. Analysis of the heat transfer process of concrete piles in clay showed that the difference in thermal properties between the energy pile and the surrounding soil affected the whole heat transfer process, especially in the initial stage. The time required to reach the quasi-steady state mainly depended on the pile’s volume heat capacity, the thermal diffusivity of the pile and the surrounding soil. In engineering practice, to enhance the heat transfer performance of energy piles, the following measures can be taken: reduce the difference in thermal properties between the energy pile and surrounding soil and increase the distance between energy piles to improve the heat transfer conditions.

1994 ◽  
Vol 116 (1) ◽  
pp. 133-140 ◽  
Author(s):  
S. Mochizuki ◽  
J. Takamura ◽  
S. Yamawaki ◽  
Wen-Jei Yang

Heat transfer characteristics of a three-pass serpentine flow passage with rotation are experimentally studied. The walls of the square flow passage are plated with thin stainless-steel foils through which electrical current is applied to generate heat. The local heat transfer performance on the four side walls of the three straight flow passages and two turning elbows are determined for both stationary and rotating cases. The throughflow Reynolds, Rayleigh (centrifugal type), and rotation numbers are varied. It is revealed that three-dimensional flow structures cause the heat transfer rate at the bends to be substantially higher than at the straight flow passages. This mechanism is revealed by means of a flow visualization experiment for a nonrotating case. Along the first straight flow passage, the heat transfer rate is increased on the trailing surface but is reduced on the leading surface, due to the action of secondary streams induced by the Coriolis force. At low Reynolds numbers, the local heat transfer performance is primarily a function of buoyancy force. In the higher Reynolds number range, however, the circumferentially averaged Nusselt number is only a weak function of the Rayleigh and rotation numbers.


Author(s):  
Karim Egab ◽  
Saad K. Oudah ◽  
M. Alwazzan ◽  
Jamil Khan ◽  
Chen Li

The scope of combining two wettability regions is to impact the droplet dynamic behaviors, manipulate the droplets’ mobility and enhance condensation heat transfer. Hydrophobic-hydrophilic hybrid patterns can promote the heat transfer, droplet-renewal frequency and enhance the droplets’ removal during condensation. With regard of condensation on hybrid surfaces, the geometry of the patterns has a significant influence on droplets departure frequency and heat transfer performance. Therefore, different patterns geometries (circle, ellipse, and diamond) have been developed on horizontal copper tubes at atmospheric pressure. All the patterns have the same size, and the same identical gap as well between the adjacent patterns. Results show that the diamond hybrid surface has the best performance compared with ellipse, circles hybrid surfaces at the same pattern area with same neighbor gap between two patterns and complete dropwise However, the circle and ellipse hybrid surfaces outperform lower performance compared to complete dropwise surface. The heat transfer rate for the diamond hybrid surface is 15% higher than complete dropwise surface when the gap is 0.5mm. This study clearly demonstrated the effect of pattern’s geometry regarding maximum condensation heat transfer rate and droplet departure frequency.


Author(s):  
Nicholas R. Arens ◽  
Mitchell P. Morem ◽  
Jeffrey Doom ◽  
Gregory J. Michna

With increasing heat fluxes in microelectronics, thermal management of these devices will soon no longer be attainable through current methods. One thermal management technology that could be integrated into the design of microelectronics is jet impingement cooling. Past research has primarily focused on evenly spaced, equal-sized, circular or slot jets perpendicular to the surface. A significant problem associated with this technology, especially as the surface to be cooled increases in size, is crossflow. This is the interaction of the transverse flow from the spent inner jet fluid with the jets closer to the outer edge of the surface. In an attempt to attenuate the crossflow effects, the heat transfer performance of jet arrays with non-uniform jet diameter and jet spacing were investigated. The testing apparatus housed a 3D-printed jet array nozzle that could be easily exchanged to accommodate many tests. The use of advanced manufacturing techniques allows for array geometries that may have previously been difficult to create. The impingement surface was a circular, polished, oxygen-free copper surface with a diameter of 25.4 mm. Heat transfer rates nearing 400 W could be delivered to the surface, for a heat flux of more than 75 W/cm2. The working fluid was single phase water, and the heat transfer rate was measured for each jet array over a range of flow rates. Experimental data was compared to simulation data obtained through CFD analysis. CFD modeling was used to predict the most promising geometries, which were then validated through experiment. Out of the nozzles tested, it was determined that the nozzle with larger diameters toward the edge of the surface attained the highest heat transfer rate of h = 38,822 W/m2-K. The nozzle with closer jet spacing at the outside of the array was found to have the highest experimental Nusselt number with NuD = 88.8. It was determined that angled confining walls do not have a definitive association with improved heat transfer. The simulation data was found to predict the heat transfer performance of the various geometries with an average percent difference in heat transfer coefficient of 11%.


2014 ◽  
Vol 136 (10) ◽  
Author(s):  
Christina A. Pappas ◽  
Donald A. Jordan ◽  
Pamela M. Norris

The effect of fill volume on the heat transfer performance of a hybrid cooling fin thermosyphon, characterized by an airfoil cross-sectional shape and a slot-shaped cavity, is investigated. The performance was examined at three fill volumes, expressed as a percentage of the evaporator section: 0%, 60%, and 240%. These were chosen to represent three distinct regimes: unfilled, filled, and overfilled evaporator sections, respectively. The cross section of this copper–water thermosyphon has a NACA0010 shape with a chord length of 63.5 mm and an aspect ratio (ratio of the length of the evaporator section to the cavity width) of 1.109. The evaporator length comprises 8.3% of the total thermosyphon length. The air-cooled condenser section was placed in a uniform air flow in the test section of an open return wind tunnel. The rate of heat transfer, or performance, was measured as a function of fill volume and evaporator temperature. The heat transfer performance increased by 100–170% by adding 0.86 ml of working fluid (de-ionized water), i.e., when the fill volume increased from 0% to 60%, which illustrates the improvement of a cooling fin's heat transfer rate by converting it to a hybrid cooling fin thermosyphon. Of the fill volumes investigated, the thermosyphon achieves a maximum heat transfer rate and highest average surface temperature at the 60% fill volume. Overfilling the evaporator section at 240% fill results in a slight decrease in performance from the 60% fill volume. The results of this study demonstrate the feasibility of hybridizing a cooling fin to act both as a cooling fin and a thermosyphon.


Author(s):  
Ravin G. Naik ◽  
Arvind S. Mohite ◽  
Juneyd F. Dadi

The demand for more powerful engines in smaller hood spaces has created a problem of insufficient rates of heat dissipation in automotive radiators. Insufficient heat dissipation can result in the overheating of the engine, which leads to the breakdown of lubricating oil, metal weakening of engine parts, and significant wear between engine parts. To minimize the stress on the engine as a result of heat generation, automotive radiators must be redesigned to be more compact while still maintaining high levels of heat transfer performance. Moreover, this can be done without significant modification to the existing internal radiator structure, this can be done by increasing (i) heat transfer area, (ii) temperature, and (iii) heat transfer co-efficient. However, technologies have already reached their limit for the cases heat transfer area and temperature. Recently many researchers found that dispersing nano-sized particles into the liquids result in higher heat transfer co-efficient of these newly developed fluids called nanofluids compared to the traditional liquids. This kind of fluids are now of great interest not only for modifying heat transfer performance of fluids, but also for improving other different characteristics such as mass transfer and rheological properties of fluids. A major goal of the nanofluids project is to reduce the size and weight of the vehicle cooling systems by greater than 10% despite the cooling demands of higher power engines. Nanofluids enable the potential to allow higher temperature coolants and higher heat rejection in the automotive engines. It is estimated that a higher temperature radiator could reduce the radiator size approximately 30%. In this paper we have considered two nanofluids comprising of aluminium oxide and copper oxide in water mixture has been studied experimentally to compare their performance in automobile radiator. The study shows that for a particle volume concentration of 0.1%, both nano fluids show improvements in their performance over the base fluid. Comparison has been made on the basis of three important parameters; equal mass flow rate, equal air flow rate and equal radiator inlet temperature of coolant. For both nanofluids exhibit increase in heat transfer rate compared to base fluid.


Author(s):  
S. Mochizuki ◽  
J. Takamura ◽  
S. Yamawaki ◽  
Wen-Jei Yang

Heat transfer characteristics of a three-pass serpentine flow passage with rotation is experimentally studied. The walls of the square flow passage are plated with thin stainless-steel foils through which electrical current is applied to generate heat. The local heat transfer performance on the four side walls of the three straight flow passages and two turning elbows are determined for both stationary and rotating cases. The through flow Reynolds, Rayleigh (centrifugal type) and Rotation numbers are varied. It is revealed that three-dimensional flow structures cause the heat transfer rate at the bends to be substantially higher than at the straight flow passages. This mechanism is revealed by means of a flow visualization experiment for non-rotating case. Along the first straight flow passage, the heat transfer rate is increased on the trailing surface but is reduced on the leading surface, due to the action of secondary streams induced by the Coriolis force. At low Reynolds numbers, the local heat transfer performance is primarily a function of buoyancy-force. In the higher Reynolds number range, however, the circumferential average Nusselt number is only a weak function of the Rayleigh and Rotation numbers.


IFCEE 2021 ◽  
2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yong Zou ◽  
Jie Huang ◽  
Fei Wang ◽  
John S. McCartney ◽  
Elahe Jafari

Energies ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 12 (3) ◽  
pp. 414 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shicheng Wang ◽  
Chenyi Xu ◽  
Wei Liu ◽  
Zhichun Liu

Packed beds are widely used in industries and it is of great significance to enhance the heat transfer between gas and solid states inside the bed. In this paper, numerical simulation method is adopted to investigate the heat transfer principle in the bed at particle scale, and to develop the direct enhanced heat transfer methods in packed beds. The gas is treated as continuous phase and solved by Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD), while the particles are treated as discrete phase and solved by the Discrete Element Method (DEM); taking entransy dissipation to evaluate the heat transfer process. Considering the overall performance and entransy dissipation, the results show that, compared with the uniform particle size distribution, radial distribution of multiparticle size can effectively improve the heat transfer performance because it optimizes the velocity and temperature field, reduces the equivalent thermal resistance of convection heat transfer process, and the temperature of outlet gas increases significantly, which indicates the heat quality of the gas has been greatly improved. The increase in distribution thickness obviously enhances heat transfer performance without reducing the equivalent thermal resistance in the bed. The result is of great importance for guiding practical engineering applications.


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