Empirical Evaluation of Convective Heat and Moisture Transport Coefficients in Porous Cotton Medium

2002 ◽  
Vol 124 (3) ◽  
pp. 530-537 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kamel Ghali ◽  
Nesreen Ghaddar ◽  
Byron Jones
Keyword(s):  
Mass Transfer ◽  
Heat And Mass Transfer ◽  
Convective Heat ◽  
Transport Coefficients ◽  
Model Parameters ◽  
Moisture Uptake ◽  
Transfer Coefficients ◽  
Mass Transfer Coefficients ◽  
Air Penetration ◽  
Heat And Moisture

The air penetration within a porous clothing system on a moving human being is an important physical process that considerably affects the heat and moisture resistance of the textile material. This effect of the coupled convection heat and mass exchange within the clothing system is experimentally investigated and theoretically modeled to determine the heat and mass transfer coefficients between the air penetrating the void space and the solid fiber as a function of the velocity of penetrating air. Experiments were conducted inside environmentally controlled chambers to measure the transient moisture uptake of untreated cotton fabric samples as well as the outer fabric temperature using an infrared pyrometer. The moisture uptake was conducted at three different volumetric flow rates of 0.0067, 0.018 and 0.045 m3/sec/m2 of fabric area to represent airflow penetrations that could result from slow, medium, and vigorous walking, respectively. The theoretical analysis is based on a two-node adsorption model of the fibrous medium. A set of four coupled differential equations were derived describing time-dependent convective heat and mass transfer between the penetrating air and the solid fiber in terms of relevant unknown transport coefficients. The unknown model parameters were adjusted to fit the experimental data. The outer heat and mass transfer coefficients were found to increase with the air penetration flow rate.

scholarly journals Drying and Heating Processes in Arbitrarily Shaped Clay Materials Using Lumped Phenomenological Modeling

Energies ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 14 (14) ◽  
pp. 4294
Author(s):  
Elisiane S. Lima ◽  
João M. P. Q. Delgado ◽  
Ana S. Guimarães ◽  
Wanderson M. P. B. Lima ◽  
Ivonete B. Santos ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Mass Transfer ◽  
Relative Humidity ◽  
Heat And Mass Transfer ◽  
Convective Heat ◽  
Transport Coefficients ◽  
Ceramic Materials ◽  
Raw Material ◽  
Transfer Coefficients ◽  
Mass Transfer Coefficients ◽  
Mass Transfers

This work aims to study the drying of clay ceramic materials with arbitrary shapes theoretically. Advanced phenomenological mathematical models based on lumped analysis and their exact solutions are presented to predict the heat and mass transfers in the porous material and estimate the transport coefficients. Application has been made in hollow ceramic bricks. Different simulations were carried out to evaluate the effect of drying air conditions (relative humidity and speed) under conditions of forced and natural convection. The transient results of the moisture content and temperature of the brick, and the convective heat and mass transfer coefficients are presented, discussed and compared with experimental data, obtaining a good agreement. It was found that the lower the relative humidity is and the higher the speed of the drying air is, the higher the convective heat and mass transfer coefficients are at the surface of the brick and in the holes, and the faster the moisture removal material and heating is. Based on the predicted results, the best conditions for brick drying were given. The idea is to increase the quality of the brick after the process, to reduce the waste of raw material and energy consumption in the process.

Numerical Simulation of Heat and Mass Transfer Enhancement in Absorption Process With Double-Side Film-Inversion

2008 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ya-Ping Chen ◽  
Chen-Jie Shi ◽  
Ming-Heng Shi ◽  
Chen-Min Ling
Keyword(s):  
Mass Transfer ◽  
Heat And Mass Transfer ◽  
Vertical Plane ◽  
Mathematic Model ◽  
Absorption Process ◽  
Transfer Coefficients ◽  
Mass Transfer Coefficients ◽  
Plane Plate ◽  
Before And After ◽  
Calculation Results

Film-inversion is an effective way recently developed to enhance heat and mass transfer in absorbers. However, only one-side of round or rectangular tube i.e. half of the total heat transfer area is used to form film-inverting configuration in the published literature. The paper presents a double-side film-inverting scheme, which consists of two plate bundles and a set of comb shaped conjunction guiders between them for leading solution film from both-sides of each couple of the upper plate bundle to the opposite sides of the bottom ones. A two-scale crosswise corrugation plate bundle, which has vertical large corrugations and horizontal small ones, is suggested instead of the plane plate bundle. The horizontal small corrugation can make the film turbulent and film distribution uniform before and after inversion with surface tension effect, thus increasing the heat and mass transfer coefficients of the absorption process. A mathematic model for heat and mass transfer in absorption process with aqueous Li-Br solution falling film-inverting on two sequential vertical plane plates was established and solved numerically. The distributions of dimensionless velocity, temperature and concentration of liquid film profile before and after film-inverting were obtained. The influence of the number of inversion on heat and mass transfer characteristics was analyzed. The calculation results show that the heat and mass transfer coefficients of the once-film-inverting scheme have about 58% and 73% increment respectively over these of the none film-inverting scheme.

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