scholarly journals Selection of the Design of a Contact Condenser of a Gas-Steam Plant with Steam Injection into the Combustion Chamber

Author(s):  
Oksana Lytvynenko ◽  
Irina Myhaylova

Due to the importance of the problems of implementing energy-saving technologies in modern conditions, one of the promising areas is the use of gas turbines for combined heat and power generation. One of the areas of effective development and technical re-equipment is the widespread use of highly economical combined steam and gas plants and gas turbines. The operation of the gas turbine unit “Aquarius” SE NPCG “Zorya-Mashproekt” with the injection of steam into the combustion chamber, which operates on the advanced cycle A-STIG and has in its circuit equipment for water regeneration, condensed from a vapor-gas mixture is considered. For condensation of steam from the vapor-gas mixture, a contact condenser-gas cooler is used, which is a mixing heat exchanger of complex design. The efficiency of heat transfer is determined by the design of the nozzle, namely, the developed heat transfer surface, small hydraulic supports, high heat transfer coefficients. An important aspect is the overall dimensions, which must be within certain limits. In the work it is offered to execute a design of the condenser in the form of a packed column. Different types of nozzles are considered to choose the best option. As a result of thermal design calculation of the contact capacitor, it is proposed to use Rashiga rings (15152) as a nozzle, which provide the lowest height of the nozzle at the required diameter of the device.

2004 ◽  
Vol 126 (4) ◽  
pp. 528-534 ◽  
Author(s):  
S. B. Sathe ◽  
B. G. Sammakia

The results of a study of a new and unique high-performance air-cooled impingement heat sink are presented. An extensive numerical investigation of the heat sink performance is conducted and is verified by experimental data. The study is relevant to cooling of high-power chips and modules in air-cooled environments and applies to workstations or mainframes. In the study, a rectangular jet impinges on a set of parallel fins and then turns into cross flow. The effects of the fin thickness, gap nozzle width and fin shape on the heat transfer and pressure drop are investigated. It is found that pressure drop is reduced by cutting the fins in the central impingement zone without sacrificing the heat transfer due to a reduction in the extent of the stagnant zone. A combination of fin thicknesses of the order of 0.5 mm and channel gaps of 0.8 mm with appropriate central cutout yielded heat transfer coefficients over 1500 W/m2 K at a pressure drop of less than 100 N/m2, as is typically available in high-end workstations. A detailed study of flow-through heat sinks subject to the same constraints as the impingement heat sink showed that the flow-through heat sink could not achieve the high heat transfer coefficients at a low pressure drop.


Author(s):  
Jessica Sheehan ◽  
Avram Bar-Cohen

Heat transfer to an evaporating refrigerant and/or dielectric liquid in a microgap channel can provide very high heat transfer coefficients and volumetric cooling rates. Recent studies at Maryland have established the dominance of the annular flow regime in such microgap channels and related the observed high-quality peak of an M-shaped heat transfer coefficient curve to the onset of local dryout. The present study utilizes infrared thermography to locate such nascent dryout regions and operating conditions. Data obtained with a 210 micron microgap channel, operated with a mass flux of 195.2 kg/m2-s and heat fluxes of 10.3 to 26 W/cm2 are presented and discussed.


2006 ◽  
Vol 128 (9) ◽  
pp. 934-944 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xin Li ◽  
D. Keith Hollingsworth ◽  
Larry C. Witte

A laser-based method has been developed to measure the thickness of the liquid microlayer between a cap-shaped sliding bubble and an inclined heated wall. Sliding vapor bubbles are known to create high heat transfer coefficients along the surfaces against which they slide. The details of this process remain unclear and depend on the evolution of the microlayer that forms between the bubble and the surface. Past experiments have used heat transfer measurements on uniform-heat-generation surfaces to infer the microlayer thickness through an energy balance. These studies have produced measurements of 20–100 μm for refrigerants and for water, but they have yet to be confirmed by a direct measurement that does not depend on a first-law closure. The results presented here are direct measurements of the microlayer thickness made from a reflectance-based fiber-optic laser probe. Details of the construction and calibration of the probe are presented. Data for saturated FC-87 and a uniform-temperature surface inclined at 2 deg to 15 deg from the horizontal are reported. Millimeter-sized spherical bubbles of FC-87 vapor were injected near the lower end of a uniformly heated aluminum plate. The laser probe yielded microlayer thicknesses of 22–55 μm for cap-shaped bubbles. Bubble Reynolds numbers range from 600 to 4800, Froude numbers from 0.9 to 1.7, and Weber numbers from 2.6 to 47. The microlayer thickness above cap-shaped bubbles was correlated to a function of inclination angle and a bubble shape factor. The successful correlation suggests that this data set can be used to validate the results of detailed models of the microlayer dynamics.


Author(s):  
Huitao Yang ◽  
Hamn-Ching Chen ◽  
Je-Chin Han

The blade tip is one area that experiences high heat transfer due to the strong tip leakage flow. One of the common methods is to apply film cooling on tip to reduce the heat load. To get a better film cooling, different arrangements of film holes on the plane and squealer tips have been numerically studied with the Reynolds stress turbulence model and non-equilibrium wall function. The present study investigated three types of film-hole arrangements: 1) the camber arrangement: the film cooling holes are located on the mid-camber line of tips, 2) the upstream arrangement: the film holes are located upstream of the tip leakage flow and high heat transfer region, and 3) two rows arrangement: the camber and upstream arrangements are combined under the same amount of coolant. In addition, three different blowing ratios (M = 0.5, 1 and 1.5), are evaluated for film cooling effectiveness and heat transfer coefficient. The predicted heat transfer coefficients are in good agreement with the experimental data, but the film cooling effectiveness is over predicted on the blade tips.


2008 ◽  
Author(s):  
D. Corrente ◽  
O. Manca ◽  
S. Nardini ◽  
D. Ricci ◽  
G. Masullo

Heat transfer in fluids is very important in many industrial heating and cooling equipments. Convective heat transfer can be enhanced passively by changing flow geometry, boundary conditions or by increasing thermal conductivity of the fluid. Another possibility to increase heat transfer with gas is to employ extended surfaces. When gas flows in a tube, septa with one or more openings can be used as fins. Furthermore, if the openings are arranged to give a spiral motion around the cylinder axis wall-fluid contact area increases. As a consequence the presence of the septa can significantly augment pressure drops. In this paper a numerical investigation is carried out on forced convection in circular isothermal tubes. The fluid is air and ideal gas model is employed. Septa are introduced and several shapes and arrangements are analyzed. The investigation is accomplished by means of the commercial code Fluent. A turbulence model is used. Results are presented in terms of temperature and velocity fields, local and average heat transfer coefficients and pressure drops. The aim of this study is to find the shape and arrangement of septa such to give high heat transfer coefficients and low pressure drops.


2006 ◽  
Vol 129 (4) ◽  
pp. 835-841 ◽  
Author(s):  
T. Verstraete ◽  
Z. Alsalihi ◽  
R. A. Van den Braembussche

This paper presents a numerical investigation of the heat transfer inside a micro gas turbine and its impact on the performance. The large temperature difference between turbine and compressor in combination with the small dimensions results in a high heat transfer causing a drop in efficiency of both components. Present study aims to quantify this heat transfer and to reveal the different mechanisms that contribute to it. A conjugate heat transfer solver has been developed for this purpose. It combines a three-dimensional (3D) conduction calculation inside the rotor and the stator with a 3D flow calculation in the radial compressor, turbine and gap between stator and rotor. The results for micro gas turbines of different size and shape and different material characteristics are presented and the impact on performance is evaluated.


Author(s):  
Neal R. Herring ◽  
Stephen D. Heister

This study provides a review of the current state-of-the-art in compact heat exchangers and their application to gas turbine thermal management. Specifically, the challenges and potential solutions for a cooled cooling air system using the aircraft fuel as a heat sink were analyzed. As the sensible heat absorbed by the fuel in future engines is increased, the fuel will be exposed to increasingly hotter temperatures. This poses a number of design challenges for fuel-air heat exchangers. The most well known challenge is fuel deposition or coking. Another problem encountered at high fuel temperatures is thermo-acoustic oscillations. Thermo-acoustic oscillations have been shown to occur in many fluids when heated near the critical point, yet the mechanism of these oscillations is poorly understood. In some cases these instabilities have been strong enough cause failure in the thin walled tubes used in heat exchangers. For the specific application of a fuel-air heat exchanger, the advantages of a laminar flow device are discussed. These devices make use of the thermal entry region to achieve high heat transfer coefficients. To increase performance further, heat transfer enhancement techniques were reviewed and the feasibility for aerospace heat exchangers was analyzed. Two of the most basic techniques for laminar flow enhancement include tube inserts and swirl flow devices. Additionally, the effects of these devices on both coking and instabilities have been assessed.


Large heat transfer rates are always desired for rocket propulsion applications as high heat loads are associated at the nozzle exit. Different strategies have been employed in order to have high heat transfer coefficients including use of liquid nitrogen, spray cooling etc. ISRO has planned to use aluminium based nano-particles with kerosene in order to cool launching vehicles including GSLV Mk III as it is the heaviest rocket that can carry large payloads. Recently, ISRO has announced to install its own International Space Station (ISS) in future and in such applications larger payloads are to be carried by the rocket. In this work, an analytical study on the thermodynamic properties of the aluminium nano-particles based kerosene nanofluid has been done and an attempt has also been made to develop a temperature and pressure dependent correlation that can be used in computational analysis of thrust chambers while film/regenerative cooling.


Author(s):  
Edvin Cetegen ◽  
Thomas Baummer ◽  
Serguei Dessiatoun ◽  
Michael Ohadi

This paper investigates the heat transfer and pressure drop analysis of micro grooved surfaces utilized in evaporators and condensers of a two-phase flow cooling loop. These devices utilize the vapor-liquid phase change to transfer large amounts of heat, and they offer substantially higher heat flux performance with lower pumping power than most liquid cooling technologies. Microgrooved surfaces, combined with force-fed evaporation and condensation technology discussed in this paper yield high heat transfer coefficients with low pressure drops. Our most recent results, aiming to test the limits of the technology, demonstrated dissipation of almost 1kW/cm2 from silicon electronics using HFE 7100 as the working fluid. In a compact two phase system, the heat generated by the electronic components can be absorbed by microgrooved evaporators and rejected through the microgrooved surface condensers to liquid cooled slots with high heat transfer coefficients and low pressure drops on the refrigerant side. In the case of air-cooling, the same microgrooved surface heat exchanger can reject heat with a heat transfer coefficient of 3847 W/cm2 and a pressure drop of 4156 Pa. These heat transfer processes have the added capability of being combined and used together in a self-contained system cooled either by liquid or air.


Author(s):  
Flávia V. Barbosa ◽  
João P. V. Silva ◽  
Pedro E. A. Ribeiro ◽  
Senhorinha F. C. F. Teixeira ◽  
Delfim F. Soares ◽  
...  

Air jet impingement technology receives considerable attention due to its high performance for heat transfer enhancement in thermal equipment, providing high heat transfer rates. Due to its inherent characteristics of high average heat transfer coefficients and uniformity of the heat transfer over the impinging surface, this technology is implemented in a variety of engineering applications and industrial processes, such as reflow soldering, drying of textile, cooling of turbojet engine blades and fusion reactors. Multiple jet impingement involves several variables such as: jets arrangement, jet diameter, nozzle-to-surface distance, nozzle shape, jet-to-jet spacing, jet velocity and Reynolds number, among others. However, the total control of all these parameters is still one of the remarkable issues of the thermal design of jet impingement systems. In some industries that have implemented this technology in their processes, such as reflow soldering, the range of values of these variables are established through empiricism and “trial and error” techniques. To improve the process and to reduce time and costs, it is fundamental to define accurately all the process parameters in order to obtain an optimized design with a high degree of control of the heat transfer over the target surface. To perform an accurate and complete study of the multiple jet impingement variables for a specific application, the development of both experimental and numerical studies is fundamental in order to obtain reliable results. In that sense, this work reports the project and construction of a purpose-built test facility which has been commissioned, using a PIV system. This experimental setup is based on the oven used in the reflow soldering process. The optimization of the multiple jets geometry which is integrated in the experimental setup is herein described and discussed both experimentally and numerically. The numerical simulation of the jet impingement inside the oven was conducted using the ANSYS software, specially designed to predict the fluid behavior. Regarding the relevance of the multiple jet impingement, this work intends to improve the knowledge in this field and to give reliable and scientifically proved answers to the industries that apply this technology in their processes.


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