Heat and mass transfer in wood composite panels during hot pressing: Part 4. Experimental investigation and model validation

Holzforschung ◽  
2007 ◽  
Vol 61 (1) ◽  
pp. 83-88 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chunping Dai ◽  
Changming Yu ◽  
Changyan Xu ◽  
Guangbo He

Abstract The effects of panel density and strand size on the temperature and gas pressure inside strand mats during hot pressing has been experimentally investigated. The results show good agreement with model predictions. Strand dimensions have a strong effect on the core temperature and gas pressure when the mat/panel density is relatively high. At lower density, the temperature and gas pressure are controlled only by the panel density. Comparison between the model predictions and experimental results also reveals the need for further characterisation of the basic mat properties, especially conductivity and permeability.

2017 ◽  
Vol 10 ◽  
pp. 93-106 ◽  
Author(s):  
M.K. Teixeira de Brito ◽  
D.B. Teixeira de Almeida ◽  
A.G. Barbosa de Lima ◽  
L. Almeida Rocha ◽  
E. Santana de Lima ◽  
...  

This work aims to study heat and mass transfer in solids with parallelepiped shape with particular reference to drying process. A transient three-dimensional mathematical model based on the Fick ́s and Fourier ́s Laws was developed to predict heat and mass transport in solids considering constant physical properties and convective boundary conditions at the surface of the solid. The analytical solution of the governing equations was obtained using the method of separation of variables. The study was applied in the drying of common ceramic bricks. Predicted results of the heating and drying kinetics and the moisture and temperature distributions inside the material during the process, are compared with experimental data and good agreement was obtained. It has been found that the vertices of the solid dry and heat first. This provokes thermal and hydric stresses inside the material, which may compromise the quality of the product after drying.


Symmetry ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (7) ◽  
pp. 1176
Author(s):  
Siti Nur Alwani Salleh ◽  
Norfifah Bachok ◽  
Fadzilah Md Ali ◽  
Norihan Md Arifin

The present paper concentrates on the second-order slip flow over a moving thin needle in a nanofluid. The combined effects of thermophoresis and Brownian motion are considered to describe the heat and mass transfer performance of nanofluid. The resulting system of equations are obtained using similarity transformations and being executed in MATLAB software via bvp4c solver. The physical characteristics of embedded parameters on velocity, temperature, concentration, coefficient of skin friction, heat and mass transfer rates are demonstrated through a graphical approach and are discussed in detail. The obtained outcomes are validated with the existing works and are found to be in good agreement. It is shown that, for a specific domain of moving parameter, dual solutions are likely to exist. The stability analysis is performed to identify the stability of the solutions gained, and it is revealed that only one of them is numerically stable. The analysis indicated that the percentage of increment in the heat and mass transfer rates from no-slip to slip condition for both thin and thick surfaces of the needle ( a = 0.1 and a = 0.2 ) are 10.77 % and 12.56 % , respectively. Moreover, the symmetric behavior is noted for the graphs of reduced heat and mass transfer when the parameters N b and N t are the same.


1965 ◽  
Vol 87 (4) ◽  
pp. 499-506 ◽  
Author(s):  
R. F. Barron ◽  
L. S. Han

Heat and mass transfer rates were measured experimentally and compared with analytically developed correlations for frost formation on a vertical flat plate in free convection. The plate was cooled internally to cryogenic temperatures (−310 F or liquid nitrogen temperatures), and both the laminar and turbulent flow regimes were investigated. In the laminar flow correlation, the effects of thermal diffusion and diffusion thermoeffect were included. The analytical and experimental heat transfer rates were in good agreement; however, the mass transfer results were affected by the presence of macromolecules of frost within the boundary layer.


Author(s):  
P. Fede ◽  
G. Moula ◽  
A. Ingram ◽  
T. Dumas ◽  
O. Simonin

The present paper is dedicated to numerical and experimental study of the hydrodynamic of a non-reactive isothermal pressurized fluidized bed. Experimental data have been obtained using PEPT technique allowing to track a particle trajectory inside a dense fluidized bed. A specific post-processing approach has been developed to compute the Eulerian time-averaged particle velocity field. The comparison with 3-dimensional numerical model predictions shows a good agreement in the core of the fluidized bed. In contrast, in the near wall region the numerical model overestimate the downward particle velocity. The modification of particle phase wall boundary condition improves the numerical predictions.


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