WSEAS Transactions on Heat and Mass Transfer
Print ISSN: 1790-5044, E-ISSN: 2224-3461
Volume 12, 2017
Numerical Simulation of Regenerative Chambers for Glass Production Plants with a Non-Equilibrium Heat Transfer Model
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Abstract: Regenerative heat exchangers used in glass industry are complex system owing to the transient nature of their cycle, as well as to the complexity of the heat exchange phenomena involved: mixed convection during the cold period (air flux) and combined presence of radiation ad forced convection during the hot period (exhaust gases flux). The present work describes a method to simulate the behaviour of such regenerators. The fluid domain is solved as a porous domain with friction and heat transfer effects modelled as source term in the momentum and energy equations respectively. In this work a so called “non-equilibrium thermal model” is developed as an improvement with respect to a previous model based on a volumetric heat transfer in the porous domain calibrated from experimental data. The improved approach models the heat transfer process through the heat transfer coefficient that is more fundamental and does not require experimental data.
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Pages: 21-29
WSEAS Transactions on Heat and Mass Transfer, ISSN / E-ISSN: 1790-5044 / 2224-3461, Volume 12, 2017, Art. #3