ADVANCED TYPES OF CHECKERWORK OF REGENERATIVE HEAT EXCHANGERS FOR GLASS FURNACES

Author(s):  
O. Koshelnik ◽  
S. Hoisan

One of the ways to increase glass furnaces energy efficiency is to apply heat exchangers for flue gases thermal potential utilization. Flue gases losses is up to 25-40 % of the total amount of heat supplied in the furnace. These losses are influences by such factors as fuel type, furnace and burners design and manufactured product type. Regenerative heat exchangers with various types of heat storage packing is more efficient for high-power furnaces. Such types of regenerator checkerwork as Cowper checkerwork, two types of Siemens checkerwork, Lichte checkerwork and combined checkerwork have already been sufficiently researched, successfully applied and widely used for glass furnaces of various designs. All of its are made of standard refractory bricks. Basket checkerwork and cruciform checkerwork that are made of fused-cast molded refractory materials have been widely used recently as well. Further improvement of regenerative heat exchangers thermal efficiency only by replacing the checkerwork does not seem possible unless their size being increased. But this enlarging is not always realizable during the modernization of existing furnaces. From this point of view heat storage elements with a phase transition, where metal salts and their mixtures are used as a fusible agent look promising for glass furnaces. These elements can accumulate additional amount of heat due to phase transition, which allows to increase significantly heat exchanger thermal rating without its size and operating conditions changing. However, it is necessary to carry out additional studies of this type of checkerwork dealing with analysis of complex unsteady heat exchange processes in regenerators and selection of appropriate materials that satisfy the operating conditions of regenerative heat exchangers so that the checkerwork can be widely used for glass furnaces.

2001 ◽  
Author(s):  
W. Shang ◽  
H. Chen ◽  
R. W. Evitts ◽  
R. W. Besant

Abstract In this paper a numerical simulation of frost growth is compared with experimental data that was taken for similar operating conditions as those for regenerative wheels. One set of simulation results for the frost growth model (Part I) is presented to predict frost growth in a regenerative wheel with a cold supply air temperature of −40 °C, a warm exhaust temperature of 20 °C and 50% relative humidity. Cyclic and longer time duration frost properties are presented along with the spatial distribution of frost within the wheel. It is concluded that frost blockage effects will become very significant in only 20 minutes of operation.


1978 ◽  
Vol 11 (8) ◽  
pp. 309-312
Author(s):  
A. J. Willmott

Early models of the stationary performance of the regenerative heat exchanger are discussed together with more recent work in which the behaviour under chronologically varying operating conditions is simulated. The need is presented for better control facilities and possibly new design criteria if fuel savings in regenerative heat exchanger non-stationary operations are to be effected.


2019 ◽  
Vol 76 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 68-71 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. V. Koshel’nik ◽  
T. N. Pugachova ◽  
O. V. Kruglyakova ◽  
V. G. Pavlova ◽  
O. V. Dolobovskaya

1990 ◽  
Vol 22 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 347-352 ◽  
Author(s):  
C. Paffoni ◽  
B. Védry ◽  
M. Gousailles

The Paris Metropolitan area, which contains over eight million inhabitants, has a daily output of about 3 M cu.meters of wastewater, the purification of which is achieved by SIAAP (Paris Metropolitan Area Sewage Service) in both Achères and Valenton plants. The carbon pollution is eliminated from over 2 M cu.m/day at Achères. In order to improve the quality of output water, its tertiary nitrification in fixed-bed reactors has been contemplated. The BIOFOR (Degremont) and BIOCARBONE (OTV) processes could be tested in semi-industrial pilot reactors at the CRITER research center of SIAAP. At a reference temperature of 13°C, the removed load is approximately 0.5 kg N NH4/m3.day. From a practical point of view, it may be asserted that in such operating conditions as should be at the Achères plant, one cubic meter of filter can handle the tertiary nitification of one cubic meter of purified water per hour at an effluent temperature of 13°C.


Author(s):  
Yuran Shi ◽  
Mihael Gerkman ◽  
Qianfeng Qiu ◽  
Shuren Zhang ◽  
Grace G. D. Han

We report the design of photo-responsive organic phase change materials that can absorb filtered solar radiation to store both latent heat and photon energy via simultaneous phase transition and photo-isomerization....


2009 ◽  
Vol 131 (6) ◽  
Author(s):  
Young-Gil Park ◽  
Anthony M. Jacobi

The air-side thermal-hydraulic performance of flat-tube aluminum heat exchangers is studied experimentally for conditions typical to air-conditioning applications, for heat exchangers constructed with serpentine louvered, wavy, and plain fins. Using a closed-loop calorimetric wind tunnel, heat transfer and pressure drop are measured at air face velocities from 0.5 m/s to 2.8 m/s for dry- and wet-surface conditions. Parametric effects related to geometry and operating conditions on heat transfer and friction performance of the heat exchangers are explored. Significant differences in the effect of geometrical parameters are found for dry and wet conditions. For the louver-fin geometry, using a combined database from the present and the previous studies, empirical curve-fits for the Colburn j- and f-factors are developed in terms of a wet-surface multiplier. The wet-surface multiplier correlations fit the present database with rms relative residuals of 21.1% and 24.4% for j and f multipliers, respectively. Alternatively, stand-alone Colburn j and f correlations give rms relative residuals of 22.7% and 29.1%, respectively.


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