Numerical Study on the Effect of Dislocation Relationship on Resistance Characters of the Ceramic Oxidation Bed Based on Fluent Software

2011 ◽  
Vol 347-353 ◽  
pp. 3798-3803
Author(s):  
Yong Qi Liu ◽  
Xiang Chun Chen

As ceramic oxidation bed has high heat transfer efficiency, now, great attention has been given on it. In the oxidation bed, between the honeycomb holes of the fore-and-aft blocks of ceramic honeycombs, there are dislocation relationships. The effect of dislocation relationship on the pressure drop of the oxidation bed was numerically simulated by Fluent software. The results show that, between the two blocks of closely adjacent ceramic honeycombs, when a gap distance of 1mm was left, compared to the situation the gap distance is 0, the overall resistance loss of the oxidation bed reduced vast.

2018 ◽  
Vol 2018 ◽  
pp. 1-12 ◽  
Author(s):  
Qingwen Li ◽  
Lu Chen ◽  
Haotian Ma ◽  
Chung-Ho Huang

The latest research on energy piles demonstrates that most scholars are focusing their attention on optimization by designing more efficient heat exchanger coils, analyzing the heat pump matching parameters, and so on. However, after more than 20 years of development, these traditional methods for improving the heat transfer efficiency of energy piles have reached a bottleneck, and a new approach for the continued enhancement of this technology must be investigated. In this study, powdered graphite with high heat transfer characteristics was included in a concrete mix to create graphite concrete piles with enhanced heat transfer characteristics. The results from theoretical analysis, laboratory testing, and numerical simulation indicate that using graphite to improve the heat transfer efficiency of a concrete material is an effective method for enhancing the thermal efficiency of an energy pile system. The research results also show that the heat transfer coefficient of the concrete exhibits greater improvement when the graphite content is greater than 15% under the same environmental temperature. After studying the performance of the proposed graphite concrete energy pile under different environmental temperatures (10°C, 20°C, 30°C, and 40°C), the results indicate that the working efficiency of the energy pile is better in the summer than in the winter. Finally, parameters such as the cast-in pipe configuration and pile spacing are optimized.


Energies ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 14 (20) ◽  
pp. 6483
Author(s):  
Jinli Xie ◽  
Yinghong Qin

Energy piles, combined ground source heat pumps (GSHP) with the traditional pile foundation, have the advantages of high heat transfer efficiency, less space occupation and low cost. This paper summarizes the latest research on the heat transfer and bearing capacity of energy piles. It is found that S-shaped tubes have the largest heat transfer area and the best heat transfer efficiency; that energy piles need to be designed conservatively, such as adjusting the safety coefficient, number and spacing of the piles according to the additional temperature loads; and that unbalanced surface temperature has not been resolved, caused by uneven refrigeration/heating demand in one cycle. A composite energy pile applied to water-rich areas is proposed to overcome the decay of bearing and heat transfer performance. Besides, most of the heat transfer models are borehole-oriented and will fit for energy piles effectively if the models support variable ground temperature boundary conditions.


2018 ◽  
Vol 140 (11) ◽  
Author(s):  
Haojie Li ◽  
Yanrong Chen ◽  
Yunfei Yan ◽  
Cheng Hu ◽  
Hu Fan ◽  
...  

In consideration of high heat transfer efficiency and stable combustion, a new type of microplanar combustor for micro-thermophotovoltaic (micro-TPV) system is proposed, in which the heat transfer is enhanced by staggered cylindrical array. The numerical study results indicate that the temperature of radiation wall of cylindrical-array combustor is higher and more uniform comparing with the conventional-channel combustor, the application of cylindrical-array make the effective radiation of the combustor increase 34.55% and reach to 35.98 W. Moreover, with inlet velocity increase from 4 m/s to 16 m/s, the cylindrical-array combustor shows the better stability of combustion, which the position of the flame moves 4.8 mm in the cylindrical-array combustor and 9.1 mm in the conventional-channel combustor. However, the 0.5–4.5 equivalence ratio range for stable combustion is slightly narrower than 0.4–6.0 in the conventional-channel combustor. To extend the equivalence ratio range, one row of cylindrical array was canceled, and the distribution length of cylindrical array was reduced to 10 mm, After this improvement, the equivalence ratio range is extended to 0.3–5.5, and the negative effect on the flame stability of the cylindrical array is basically eliminated.


Energies ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 11 (11) ◽  
pp. 3121 ◽  
Author(s):  
Arkadiusz Brenk ◽  
Pawel Pluszka ◽  
Ziemowit Malecha

Plate heat exchangers (PHE) are characterized by high heat transfer efficiency and compactness. An exploitation problem of the PHE is related to flow maldistribution, which can make part of the PHE idle, resulting in overheating and damage. Making geometrical modifications to the PHE can help reduce flow maldistribution. Modifications should be kept to a minimum, so as not to complicate the production process. There is a large number of possible geometrical modifications, which simply considers additional obstacles or stream dividers. To test all of them would be impractical and would also take a prohibitively long amount of time to obtain experimental measurements. A typical PHE is characterized by a complex system of channels. Making numerical calculations of its 3D model can be prohibitively time and resource-consuming. The present work introduces a physically consistent methodology of the transformation of a real 3D geometry to its 2D representation. Its main novelty is to assure the same pressure drop balance remains between the 3D and 2D geometries. This is achieved by a preservation of the same cumulative pressure losses in both geometries. The proposed innovative approach levels the pressure balance difference by adding properly designed local geometrical modifications. The developed methodology allowed a wide range of parameter space and various geometrical modifications to be investigated, and revealed geometrical optimizations leading to the improved performance of the PHE. To minimize the influence of other factors, an incompressible and single-phase flow was studied.


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.


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.


2014 ◽  
Vol 472 ◽  
pp. 286-290
Author(s):  
Jing Long Du ◽  
Xiang Huang ◽  
Da Wei Tang

The direct steam generation (DSG) with parabolic collector is an attractive option regarding the economic improvement of parabolic technology for solar thermal electricity generation system. On the basis of theory analysis of flow and heat transfer mechanism in the DSG system, this paper presents the numerical simulation results of one 650 meters loop under different direct normal irradiation values, performance parameters such as water temperature, heat transfer coefficient and dryness of the fluid in the absorber pipe are obtained in the simulation results. This paper shows that fluids parameters are susceptible to the solar direct normal values , high heat transfer efficiency and sensitive control system are the key to ensure DSG systems stable operation.


2013 ◽  
Vol 709 ◽  
pp. 286-291 ◽  
Author(s):  
Li Feng Wang ◽  
Bao Dong Shao ◽  
He Ming Cheng

The purpose of this paper is to optimize the structural sizes of multi-layer rectangle micro-channel heat sink, which has been widely used to cool electronic chip for its high heat transfer coefficient and compact structure. Taking the thermal resistance and the pressure drop as goal functions, a binary-objective optimization model was proposed for the multi-layer rectangle micro-channel heat sink based on Sequential Quadratic Programming (SQP) method. The number of optimized micro-channel in width n1 and that in height n2 are 21 and 7, the width of optimized micro-channel Wc and fin Wf are 340 and 130μm, the height of optimized micro-channel Hc is 415μm, and the corresponding total thermal resistance of the whole micro-channel heat sink is 1.3354 °C/W. The corresponding pressure drop is about 1.3377 Pa. When the velocity of liquid is larger than 0.3 m/s, the effect of change of velocity of liquid on the thermal resistance and pressure drop can be neglected.


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