scholarly journals A Heat Transfer Model for the Production of Semi-Solid Billets with the SEED Process

2006 ◽  
Vol 519-521 ◽  
pp. 1525-1532 ◽  
Author(s):  
Josée Colbert ◽  
Dominique Bouchard

A heat transfer model was built to predict the temperature evolution of semi-solid aluminum billets produced with the SEED process. An inverse technique was used to characterize the heat transfer coefficient at the interface between the crucible and the semi-solid billet. The effect of several process parameters on the heat transfer coefficient was investigated with a design of experiments and the coefficient was inserted in a computer model. Numerical simulations were carried out and validated with experimental results.

2020 ◽  
Vol 993 ◽  
pp. 1004-1010
Author(s):  
Min Luo ◽  
Da Quan Li ◽  
Wen Ying Qu ◽  
Stephen P. Midson ◽  
Qiang Zhu ◽  
...  

The SEED (Swirled Enthalpy Equilibrium Device) process was used to produce semi-solid slurries. One of the factors that controls whether or not a slug can be used to produce high quality castings is the solid fraction distribution within the slug, and the solid fraction distribution is strongly dependent upon the temperature distribution. In this study, a model has been developed using ProCAST to investigate the relationship between process parameters and the temperature distribution within slugs. The parameters examined included the heat transfer coefficient between the crucible and slug, the heat transfer coefficient between the crucible and air, the slug diameter, and the initial melt temperature (pouring temperature). It was found that the most important parameters controlling the temperature distribution within slugs were the crucible size and the heat transfer coefficient between crucible and air. Adjustment of other parameters had little influence on the temperature distribution. Processing parameters will be discussed in order to allow the SEED process to be used for the production of large diameter slugs (>100 mm), and for narrow freezing range (0.3<fs<0.5, fs is fraction solid) alloys such as 6063.


2011 ◽  
Vol 354-355 ◽  
pp. 369-375
Author(s):  
Chun Bo Wang ◽  
Xiao Fei Ma ◽  
Jiao Zhang ◽  
Jin Gui Sheng ◽  
Hong Wei Li

A combustion and heat transfer model in oxy-fired CFBB was set. Particle diameter, voidage of the bed ,etc, was analyzed with 30%, 50%, and 70% oxygen. Take a 300MW CFBB for example, the heat transfer characteristics in furnace were numerical simulated. In the sparse zone, heat transfer coefficient is proportional to oxygen concentration at the same voidage of the bed; under the same operation condition, the heat transfer coefficient in CFB increases with the voidage of the bed at first, then it decreases. It was found the heat transfer capability decrease due to the higher concentration of oxygen. It is necessary to set an external heat exchanger to keep a normal combustion


Author(s):  
Shengjun Zhang ◽  
Feng Shen ◽  
Xu Cheng ◽  
Xianke Meng ◽  
Dandan He

According to the operation conditions of time unlimited passive containment heat removal system (TUPAC), a separate effect experiment facility was established to investigate the heat transfer performance of steam condensation in presence of non-condensable gas. The effect of wall subcooling temperature, total pressure and mass fraction of the air on heat transfer process was analyzed. The heat transfer model was also developed. The results showed that the heat transfer coefficient decreased with the rising of subcooling temperature, the decreasing of the total pressure and air mass fraction. It was revealed that Dehbi&rsquo;s correlation predicted the heat transfer coefficient conservatively, especially in the low pressure and low temperature region. The novel correlation was fitted by the data obtained in the following range: 0.20~0.45 MPa in pressure, 20% ~ 80% in mass fraction, 15&deg;C ~ 45&deg;C in temperature. The discrepancy of the correlation and experiment data was with &plusmn;20%.


2013 ◽  
Vol 744 ◽  
pp. 100-104
Author(s):  
Wei Min Han ◽  
Yan Zhou ◽  
Heng Liang Zhang ◽  
Dan Mei Xie

Several models for calculating the heat transfer coefficient of wheel rims of large capacity steam turbines are presented. Taking a certain 600MW supercritical turbine rotor as an example, the heat transfer coefficient of wheel rim under cold start-up are analyzed and calculated, according to the and comparison, and the quantitative calculation results are given The results show that the heat transfer coefficient of rotor rims obtained by Sarkar method is close to the heat transfer coefficient obtained by a research institute based on a rib heat transfer model. In finite element analyses, the calculation results by mentioned method could provide the heat transfer boundary condition of temperature and thermal stress field calculations of supercritical and ultra-supercritical steam turbine rotors.


Author(s):  
Farzad A. Shirazi ◽  
Mohsen Saadat ◽  
Bo Yan ◽  
Perry Y. Li ◽  
Terry W. Simon

Air compressor is the critical part of a Compressed Air Energy Storage (CAES) system. Efficient and fast compression of air from ambient to a pressure ratio of 200–300 is a challenging problem due to the trade-off between efficiency and power density. Compression efficiency is mainly affected by the amount of heat transfer between the air and its surrounding during the compression. One way to increase heat transfer is to implement an optimal compression trajectory, i.e., a unique trajectory maximizing the compression efficiency for a given compression time and compression ratio. The main part of the heat transfer model is the convective heat transfer coefficient (h) which in general is a function of local air velocity, air density and air temperature. Depending on the model used for heat transfer, different optimal compression profiles can be achieved. Hence, a good understanding of real heat transfer between air and its surrounding wall inside the compression chamber is essential in order to calculate the correct optimal profile. A numerical optimization approach has been proposed in previous works to calculate the optimal compression profile for a general heat transfer model. While the results show a good improvement both in the lumped air model as well as Fluent CFD analysis, they have never been experimentally proved. In this work, we have implemented these optimal compression profiles in an experimental setup that contains a compression chamber with a liquid piston driven by a water pump through a flow control valve. The optimal trajectories are found and experimented for different compression times. The actual value of heat transfer coefficient is unknown in the experiment. Therefore, an iterative procedure is employed to obtain h corresponding to each compression time. The resulted efficiency versus power density of optimal profiles is then compared with ad-hoc constant flow rate profiles showing up to %4 higher efficiency in a same power density or %30 higher power density in a same efficiency in the experiment.


2011 ◽  
Vol 189-193 ◽  
pp. 2294-2299
Author(s):  
Zhong Lin Hou ◽  
Ting Li ◽  
Jun Qiao ◽  
Sheng Li Li

The heat transfer coefficient between the alloys and cooling water is affected by a lot of factors and hard to measure, a new method was investigated with a self-designed system ultilizing SP-15 high-frequency inductive heating unit. Based on measured temperature curves and Fourier heat transfer model, quantitative correlation between heat transfer coefficient and temperature was obtained by inverse algorithm method of iterative simulation and automatic optimization. The results showed that in submerged water-cooling process, the heat transfer coefficient reached to a peak value at the beginning and then decreased with increasing temperature. A decrease of cooling water temperature increased the peak value of the heat transfer coefficient, but did not change temperature range of the peak value from 200°C to 225°C . The heat transfer coefficient was mainly dependent of interfacial temperature between the Al-Cu alloys and the cooling water.The temperatures range from 200°C to 225°C gave the highest heat flux transfer.


2021 ◽  
Vol 1035 ◽  
pp. 833-839
Author(s):  
Chao Gao ◽  
Min Luo ◽  
Da Quan Li ◽  
Song Chen ◽  
Jian Feng ◽  
...  

The mould temperature distribution has a great influence on the semi-solid diecasting. In the present study the temperature distribution of a plane-shaped mould was investigated by using the method of numerical simulation and experiment. The results showed that the preheating mould temperature field was affected by three important simulation parameters, the heat transfer coefficient hoil between the heat transfer oil and the mould, the heat transfer coefficient hair between the mould and the air, and the heat transfer coefficient hcontact between the mould core and the mould frame. The simulation results showed that (1) with the increase of hoil, the overall mould temperature imcreased; (2) with the increase of hair, the overall mould temperature decreased, while the surface temperature gradient of mould frame grad T-f and the temperature difference between the mould core and the mould frame ∆T increased; (3) With the increase of hcontact, ∆T decreased and the temperature of mould frame increased. When the heat oil temperature Toil=290°C, the heat transfer coefficients were optimized as hoil=500Wm-2K-1, hair=7Wm-2K-1, and hcontact=1000Wm-2K-1 according to the experimental results. The average temperature difference between the simulation result and the experimental result was 3.45°C, and the average relative error was 1.73%.


TAPPI Journal ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 14 (7) ◽  
pp. 441-450
Author(s):  
HENRIK WALLMO, ◽  
ULF ANDERSSON ◽  
MATHIAS GOURDON ◽  
MARTIN WIMBY

Many of the pulp mill biorefinery concepts recently presented include removal of lignin from black liquor. In this work, the aim was to study how the change in liquor chemistry affected the evaporation of kraft black liquor when lignin was removed using the LignoBoost process. Lignin was removed from a softwood kraft black liquor and four different black liquors were studied: one reference black liquor (with no lignin extracted); two ligninlean black liquors with a lignin removal rate of 5.5% and 21%, respectively; and one liquor with maximum lignin removal of 60%. Evaporation tests were carried out at the research evaporator in Chalmers University of Technology. Studied parameters were liquor viscosity, boiling point rise, heat transfer coefficient, scaling propensity, changes in liquor chemical composition, and tube incrustation. It was found that the solubility limit for incrustation changed towards lower dry solids for the lignin-lean black liquors due to an increased salt content. The scaling obtained on the tubes was easily cleaned with thin liquor at 105°C. It was also shown that the liquor viscosity decreased exponentially with increased lignin outtake and hence, the heat transfer coefficient increased with increased lignin outtake. Long term tests, operated about 6 percentage dry solids units above the solubility limit for incrustation for all liquors, showed that the heat transfer coefficient increased from 650 W/m2K for the reference liquor to 1500 W/m2K for the liquor with highest lignin separation degree, 60%.


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