Pressure Drop of Liquid–Solid Two-Phase Flow in the Vertical Tube Bundle of a Cold-Model Circulating Fluidized Bed Evaporator

A cold-model vertical multi-tube circulating fluidized bed evaporator was designed and built to conduct a visualization study on the pressure drop of a liquid-solid two-phase flow and the corresponding particle distribution.Water and polyformaldehyde particle (POM) were used as the liquid and solid phases,respectively.The effects of operating parameters such as the amount of added particles,circulating flow rate,and particle size were systematically investigated.The results showed that the addition of the particles increased the pressure drop in the vertical tube bundle.The maximum pressure drop ratios were18.65%,21.15%,18.00%,and 21.15%within the experimental range of the amount of added particles for POM1,POM2,POM3,and POM4,respectively.The pressure drop ratio basically decreased with the increase in the circulating flow rate but fluctuated with the increase in the amount of added particles and particle size.The difference in pressure drop ratio decreased with the increase in the circulating flow rate.As the amount of added particles increased,the difference in pressure drop ratio fluctuated at low circulating flow rate but basically decreased at high circulating flow rate.The pressure drop in the vertical tube bundle accounted for about 70%of the overall pressure drop in the up-flow heating chamber and was the main component of the overall pressure within the experimental range.Three-dimensional phase diagrams were established to display the variation ranges of the pressure drop and pressure drop ratio in the vertical tube bundle corresponding to the operating parameters.The research results can provide some reference for the application of the fluidized bed heat transfer technology in the industry.     

3D couette flow of dusty fluid with transpiration cooling

INTRODUCTION Transpiration cooling is a very effective process to protect certain structural elements like combustion chamber walls, exhaust nozzles, or gas turbine blades in turbojet and rocket engines, from the influence of hot gases. In view of this, Eckert (1958) obtained an exact solution of the plane couette flow with transpi-ration cooling. The problem remained 2D due to the uniform injection and suction applied at the porous plates. Flow and heat transfer along a plane wall with…     

Experimental study on the spatial distribution of particle rotation in the upper dilute zone of a cold CFB riser

Particle rotation plays an important role in gas-solid flows. This paper presents an experimental investigation on the spatial distribution of average rotation speed for glass beads in the upper dilute zone of a cold circulating fluidized bed （CFB） riser. It is shown that in the horizontal direction, the average rotation speed in the near-wall area is larger than that in the center area, while in the vertical direction, it decreases as the height increases. The reason resulting in this distribution is analyzed by considering several factors including particle size, particle shape, particle number density, particle collision behavior, and the surrounding flow field, etc. The effects of CFB operation conditions on the spatial distribution of average rotation speed are also studied. The results show that the increasing superficial gas velocity increases the average rotation speed of particles in the near wall area but takes nearly no effect on that in the center area. The external solids mass flux, however, takes the opposite effect. It is found that the average rotation speeds of particles in both areas are increased as the total amount of bed material increases.     

分布板进气方向对气化炉内颗粒分布的影响

采用MP-PIC (multi-phase particle in cell)方法模拟了三维多段气化炉（上部快速床,下部鼓泡床）多粒径煤粉的循环流化过程,研究了分布板不同进气方向对气化炉内颗粒分布的影响。结果表明:分布板开孔与水平方向夹角越大,物料进入快速床并形成流化状态越快,但对成形后的流化形态影响较小;分布板进气方向对分布板处的轴向颗粒浓度分布影响较大,对快速床内轴向颗粒浓度分布影响较小;随着分布板进气方向与水平夹角的减小,鼓泡床下部颗粒浓度增大,固相颗粒通量增大;分布板进气方向对旋风分离效率影响较小。因此,工程上可根据需要适当减小分布板进气方向与水平方向的夹角来增加分布板上部颗粒浓度分布。     

Heat Transfer Method for Solid Flow Rate Measurement in Gas-Solid Two Phase Flow

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过冷流动沸腾热传递的分形模型

提出过冷流动沸腾热传递的分形模型,根据加热表面活化点的分形分布得到了过冷流动沸腾热流密度的表达式。从该模型中发现过冷流动沸腾热流密度是壁面过热度、流体的过冷度、流体的主流速度与流体的接触角、流体物理特性的函数关系,并且没有增加新的经验常数。模型预测的结果与实验数据进行了比较,两者是极好的吻合。     

Effect of particle loading on heat transfer enhancement in a gas-solid suspension cross flow

Heat transfer between gas-solid multiphase flow and tubes occurs in many industry processes, such as circulating fluidized bed process, pneumatic conveying process, chemical process, drying process, etc. This paper focuses on the influence of the presence of particles on the heat transfer between a tube and gas-solid suspension. The presence of particles causes positive enhancement of heat transfer in the case of high solid loading ratio, but heat transfer reduction has been found for in the case of very low solid loading ratio (M _s of less than 0.05 kg/kg). A useful correlation incorporating solid loading ratio, particle size and flow Reynolds number was derived from experimental data. In addition, thek-∈ two-equation model and the Fluctuation-Spectrum-Random-Trajectory Model (FSRT Model) are used to simulate the flow field and heat transfer of the gasphase and the solid-phase, respectively. Through coupling of the two phases the model can predict the local and total heat transfer characteristics of tube in gas-solid cross flow. For the total heat transfer enhancement due to particles loading the model predictions agreed well with experimental data. Project supported by National Natural Science Foundation for Distinguished Young Scholars (No. 50025618)     

基于Fluent螺旋槽管沸腾换热的数值模拟

基于FLUENT软件对制冷剂R134a在水平螺旋槽管管外沸腾换热进行了三维数值模拟,得到了其饱和泡状沸腾过程中体积含汽率的分布规律和换热系数,并和光管进行了比较。结果表明螺旋槽管外侧能够很好地强化沸腾传热。此外,还通过改变边界条件分析了质量流量、热流密度的变化对螺旋管管外沸腾换热系数的影响。     

影响三相循环流化床蒸发器传热性能的因素分析

论述了三相循环流化床蒸发器用于中药大黄浸提液的蒸发浓缩,对蒸发温度、物料流量、惰性粒子体积分率、传热温差以及物料浓度等影响三相循环流化床蒸发器传热性能的主要因素进行了分析,对此类流化床的实际应用有一定的实际意义。     

顺流及逆流流体温度沿程变化规律的理论研究

运用传热学基本原理进行理论分析,得出了顺流及逆流的单相流流动以及含有相变过程的两相流流动温度沿程变化规律;归纳了冷热流体沿程温度变化曲线斜率的特点,证明逆流流动温度沿程变化曲线的凸凹形状取决于比热容和流量乘积的相对大小.     

EXPERIMENTAL STUDY OF GAS—SOLID SUSPENSION FLOWS IN VORTEXING FLUIDIZED BED CHAMBER FREEBOARD

Gas flows and particle mass flux were measured and clutriation experimentswere conducted in two cold test models of vortexing fluidized bed(VFB).The experimen-tal results show that the secondary air injected tangentially creates strong vortexes,estab-lishes particle suspension layers and internal circulation,and suppresses the elutriation offine particles greatly.The vortexing fluidized bed combustion has bright prospect bccauseof its much higher combustion efficiency and desulphidation efficiency than bubblingfluidized bed combustion due to long particle residence time and high slip velocity betweengas and solid,and its simpler configuration and lower cost than circulating fluidized bedcombustion.     

Hydraulic modeling of an anaerobic expanded bed reactor for municipal sewage treatment

Anaerobic expanded bed reactor （AEBR） is mostly used for the treatment of fairly low strength wastewaters. Since the performance of AEBR largely depends on its hydraulic characteristics, residence time distribution （RTD） method is commonly used for investigation of the hydraulic characteristics of AEBR under different ascending velocity of mixed liquor. In this paper, a pilot-scale AEBR reactor is investigated for treatment of municipal sewage in which lithium chloride is used as a tracer. The results show that the AEBR could be considered as the superimposition of several constant stirred tank reactors （CSTR） and the increase of hydraulic up-flow velocity could increase the number of the CSTR and decrease the volume rate of the dead zone. The optimal up-flow velocity of the investigated AEBR was approximately 1.9 rn/h in the municipal sewage treatment.     

微通道内单相水流动与换热的特性研究

微通道传热技术是近几年发展起来的一门新兴的传热技术,具有传热效率高、结构紧凑等优点,是当前流动与传热研究的重要课题。运用计算流体力学程序(CFX)对环形微通道内单相水的流动与换热进行数值模拟,可以形象地描述出管内的流场和温度场,从中分析各种因素对流动与换热所产生的影响。     

Numerical study of heat transfer characteristics of downward supercritical kerosene flow inside circular tubes

The heat transfer characteristics of China RP-3 aviation kerosene flowing in a vertical downward tube with an inner diameter of 4 mm under supercritical pressures are numerically studied. A ten-species surrogate model is used to calculate the thermophysical properties of kerosene and the re-normalization group (RNG) k-ε turbulent model with the enhanced wall treatment is adopted to consider the turbulent effect. The effects of mass flow rate, wall heat flux, inlet temperature, and pressure on heat transfer are investigated. The numerical results show that three types of heat transfer deterioration exist for the aviation kerosene flow. The first type of deterioration occurred at the tube inlet region and is caused by the development of the thermal boundary layer, while the other two types are observed when the inner wall temperature or the bulk fuel temperature approaches the pseudo-critical temperature. The heat transfer coefficient increases with the increasing mass flow rate and the decreasing wall heat flux, while the inlet bulk fluid temperature only influences the starting point of the heat transfer coefficient curve plotted against the bulk fluid temperature. The increase of inlet pressure can effectively eliminate the deterioration due to the small variations of properties near the pseudo-critical point at relatively high pressure. The numerical heat transfer coefficients fit well with the empirical correlations, especially at higher pressures (about 5 MPa).     

Numerical Study on Heat Transfer and Flow Characteristics for Laminar Flow in a Circular Tube with Swirl Generators

This study investigated the heat transfer and flow characteristics of one kind of swirlgenerator in a circular heat exchanger tube through a numericalsimulation. The swirlflow induced by this type of swirlgenerator can obtain a high heat transfer rate with minimalpressure drop penalty. The simulations were carried out to understand the physicalbehavior of this kind of mesoscale heat enhancement component. By visualizing the heat transfer and flow characteristics, it is found that the swirlflow is induced by swirlgenerator in the circular tube couples with the impinging jet effect. After passing through the swirlgenerator, the localfriction factor of liquid can quickly return to lower levelmore quickly, while the localNusselt number maintains higher values for a distance; thus, the evaluation criterion of localperformance is improved. Single-factor optimization is used for three geometric parameters, i.e., the angle of swirlgenerator(25o, 45o, and 60o), the length of swirlgenerator(0.005, 0.01, and 0.02 m), and the center rod radius(1, 2, and 3 mm). The optimum parameters of the swirlgenerator for laminar flow of air in a circular tube are obtained, which should be 60o, 0.005 m, and 3 mm, respectively.     

Effect of Ultrafine particles on Flow Field and Transport Properties near the nterface Around a Moving Bubble

Laser Doppler Anemometer has been used to measure the flow field characteristics near the interface around a moving bubble in the presence of ultrafine particles. In order to model a moving bubble, the bubble was fixed into the counter-flow liquid by a metal mesh. Experimental materials are air and water, and the particles are complex oxidate powder. Experiments were carried out under the operating conditions: the liquid flow velocity u0 is 12.6 cm/s, the equivalent diameter de is 0.6 cm, the mass concentration of particle is 0.2%,the average particle diameter is about 10 nm and the density is 2 g/cm3. The velocity profiles of both frontal and tail-vortex areas were measured respectively. The experimental results show that the velocity fields are obviously changed in the existence of particles. In the frontal area of the bubble, both tangential and normal velocities decrease due to the presence of particles, but in tail vortex area, the tangential velocities increase remarkably, and normal velocities rise gradually from the center towards the fringe in the opposite tendency to that of no particles. The influences of flow field change in the presence of particles on gas-liquid mass transfer are analyzed and discussed.     

Pressure drop in a packed bed with sintered ore particles as applied to sinter coolers with a novel vertically arranged design for waste heat recovery

The pressure drop over a packed bed with sintered ore particles was studied experimentally. The sintered ore particles were characterized to determine their equivalent particle diameter, bed voidage, and sphericity. The pressure drop experiments were performed on unsorted and sieved particles with various size distributions for a superficial velocity up to 2.4 m/s, covering flow regimes from laminar to turbulent. It was shown that the Ergun equation underestimates the pressure drop for such highly irregular-shaped particles by about 40%. The measured modified friction factor was well correlated to a scaled Ergun equation, which was verified to be valid for the modified particle Reynolds number up to 12 000 toward design and optimization of vertically arranged sinter coolers for waste heat recovery.     

From noise to information: a new technology of olefin polymerization fluidized bed reactor based on acoustic emission

The fluidized bed is widely used in many industrial processes because of its vigorous mixing and heat transfer properties. However, when heat transfer is blocked, the particles are easily melted and agglomerated, and even cause the industrial reactor to shut down. From the point of mechanism analysis, the process of explosive agglomeration is a typical meso-scale problem in the fluidized bed, and there is a complex evolution process between particle fluidization and reactor shutdown. Grasping the regulation of meso-scale structure is one of the major challenges faced by chemical engineering. Thus, in this background, the fluidized bed acoustic emission detection technology, agglomeration fault self-repair technology, and a direct scale-up technique of the fluidized bed mathematical model were invented. These technologies have provided strong reliability for stable operation and have been successfully applied in 14 sets of industrial plants.     

Seasonal Behavior of Pavement in Geothermal Snow-Melting System with Solar Energy Storage

* Due to snow accumulation and ice formation onhighways, traffic accidents happen frequently in win-ter, causing great losses of economy and lives. Soroad snowremoval has been given great concern[1]. Geothermal road snow-melting system (GRSS)with solar energy storage is an effective, non-pollutionapplied sustainable energy technology developed in re-cent years. Its prominent advantage is to realize sea-sonal thermal storage and improve energy efficien-cy[2]. In Sapporo of Japan, a GRSS sys…     

Experiments and sensitivity analyses for heat transfer in a meter-scale regularly fractured granite model with water flow

Experiments of saturated water flow and heat transfer were conducted for a meter-scale model of regularly fractured granite. The fractured rock model (height 1502.5 mm, width 904 mm, and thickness 300 mm), embedded with two vertical and two horizontal fractures of pre-set apertures, was constructed using 18 pieces of intact granite. The granite was taken from a site currently being investigated for a high-level nuclear waste repository in China. The experiments involved different heat source temperatures and vertical water fluxes in the embedded fractures either open or filled with sand. A finite difference scheme and computer code for calculation of water flow and heat transfer in regularly fractured rocks was developed, verified against both the experimental data and calculations from the TOUGH2 code, and employed for parametric sensitivity analyses. The experiments revealed that, among other things, the temperature distribution was influenced by water flow in the fractures, especially the water flow in the vertical fracture adjacent to the heat source, and that the heat conduction between the neighboring rock blocks in the model with sand-filled fractures was enhanced by the sand, with larger range of influence of the heat source and longer time for approaching asymptotic steady-state than those of the model with open fractures. The temperatures from the experiments were in general slightly smaller than those from the numerical calculations, probably due to the fact that a certain amount of outward heat transfer at the model perimeter was unavoidable in the experiments. The parametric sensitivity analyses indicated that the temperature distribution was highly sensitive to water flow in the fractures, and the water temperature in the vertical fracture adjacent to the heat source was rather insensitive to water flow in other fractures.