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Heat transfer to horizontal tubes immersed in a fluidized-bed combustor

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OSTI ID:5908440

Experiments were carried out to measure the heat transfer rates to water-cooled horizontal tubes immersed in an atmospheric fluidized-bed combustor burning North Dakota lignite. The effect of bed temperature (T/sub BETA/ = 587-1205K), particle size (d/sub rho/ = 0.544-2,335 mm), and fluidizing velocity (U = 0.73-2.58 m/s) on heat transfer rate to horizontal tubes immersed in a fluidized-bed combustor (0.45 x 0.45 m) was investigated. Among existing correlations, correlations proposed by others are found to predict the present data quite well, when the contribution due to radiation is included. The radiative heat transfer is estimated as the difference between the heat transfer to an oxidized boiler tube and to a gold-plated tube. The relative contribution of radiation is found to be 11% for a bed of sand particles (d-bar/sub rho/ = 0.9 mm) operating at 1088K.

OSTI ID:
5908440
Report Number(s):
CONF-861211-
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English