Wall-to-suspension heat transfer in circulating fluidized beds
- Univ. Erlangen-Nuernberg, Erlangen (Germany). Lehrstuhl fuer Mechanische Verfahrenstechnik
The wall-to-suspension heat transfer in circulating fluidized beds depends on the fluid mechanics immediately near the wall and on the thermal properties of the gas used. Experimental investigations of circulating fluidized beds of low dimensionless pressure gradients with different solid particles like bronze, glass and polystyrene at ambient temperatures showed no influence of the conductivity and the heat capacity of the solids on the heat transfer coefficient. Consequently the heat transfer coefficient in the form of the dimensionless Nusselt number can be described by the dimensionless numbers which characterize the gas-solid-flow near the wall. These numbers are the Archimedes number and the pressure drop-number. The last number relates the cross-sectional average solids concentration to the solids concentration at minimum fluidization condition. With the aid of a model of segregated vertical gas-solid flow, the flow pattern in the wall region can be calculated and thus the wall heat transfer which depends only on heat conduction in the gas and on the convective heat transfer by the gas. With elevated suspension temperatures, radiation contributes additionally to the heat transfer. When the solids concentration is low, the effect of the radiation on the heat transfer is high. Increasing solids concentration results in a decrease of the radiation effect due to the wall being shielded from the radiation of the hot particles in the core region by the cold solids clusters moving down the wall. A simple correlation is presented for calculating the wall-to-suspension heat transfer in circulating fluidized beds.
- OSTI ID:
- 245037
- Report Number(s):
- CONF-950522-; ISBN 0-7918-1305-3; TRN: IM9627%%403
- Resource Relation:
- Conference: 13. international conference on fluidized-bed combustion, Orlando, FL (United States), 7-10 May 1995; Other Information: PBD: 1995; Related Information: Is Part Of 13. international conference on fluidized bed combustion: Proceedings. Volume 1; Heinschel, K.J. [ed.] [Air Products and Chemicals, Inc., Allentown, PA (United States)]; PB: 719 p.
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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