An experimental investigation has been carried out to study the heat transfer in a two-phase two-component mixture flowing upward inside a 1" double pipe heat exchanger. The heat transfer coefficient was measured using either air to lift the liquid (air-lift system) or a mechanical pump. The heat transfer coefficient results have been extensively studied and compared with other workers' results. An attempt was made to correlate the present heat transfer data in dimensionless correlations. Possible factors affecting the two-phase heat transfer coefficient have been studied with special attention being given to the fluid properties, particularly the liquid viscosity. Experiments were also carried out to investigate the effect of solid particles added to a liquid flow on the measured heat transfer coefficient. The present investigation was carried out using air as the gas-phase ranging from 2x 10-5 up to 80 x 10-5 m3/s. Liquids used were water and glycerol solutions with viscosity ranging from 0.75 up to 5.0 C. P. and flowrates between 4x 10-5 and 25 x 10-5 m3/s. Void fraction and pressure drop were also measured during the heat transfer process. Flow pattern in gas-liquid mixture was investigated in a perspex tube of identical dimensions to the heat exchanger tube.

Det finns stora vinningar att göra inom både transport- och industrisektorn genom att effektivisera materialanvändningen i produkter. Denna vinning återfinns i både materialkostnader och energieffektivisering. Scandymet AB är ett företag som tillverkar värmeväxlare och elektriska doppvärmare för ytbehandlingsindustrin. Denna rapport syftar till att utvärdera hur väl ett kalkylark som används som underlag för dimensionering av värmeväxlare hos företaget stämmer överens med verkligheten. En testrigg har därför konstruerats för att undersöka kalkylarkets validitet gällande temperaturer under 46 grader Celsius. I rapporten redovisas resultaten av tester på fyra olika värmeväxlare och resultaten har jämförts med företagets kalkylark. Undersökningarna visar att två av dessa värmeväxlare är överdimensionerade och två värmeväxlare stämde väl överens med kalkylarket. I samtliga tester används vatten som media, men då Scandymet AB värmeväxlares huvudsakliga användningsområde är korrosiva vätskor dras slutsatsen att fler undersökningar med andra fluider skulle behövas för att ytterligare fördjupa kunskapen inom värmeväxlarnas korrekta dimensionering. / There are huge gains in both the transport and industry sectors by making material use more efficient in products. This gain is found in both material costs and energy efficiency. Scandymet AB is a company that manufactures heat exchanger and electric immersion heaters for the surface treatment industry. This report aims to evaluate how well a spreadsheet used as basis for the dimensioning of heat exchangers at the company is consistent with reality. A test rig has therefore been designed and constructed to investigate the validity of the spreadsheet. The report presents the results of tests on four different heat exchangers and the results have been compared with the company’s spreadsheet. In all tests water has been used as the media to be heated, but since Scandymet AB’s heat exchanger’s main application is corrosive liquids, therefore I consider that a deeper investigation with additional fluids would be necessary to further deepen the knowledge in the area.

abstract: ABSTRACT The heat recovery steam generator (HRSG) is a key component of Combined Cycle Power Plants (CCPP). The exhaust (flue gas) from the CCPP gas turbine flows through the HRSG − this gas typically contains a high concentration of NO and cannot be discharged directly to the atmosphere because of environmental restrictions. In the HRSG, one method of reducing the flue gas NO concentration is to inject ammonia into the gas at a plane upstream of the Selective Catalytic Reduction (SCR) unit through an injection grid (AIG); the SCR is where the NO is reduced to N2 and H2O. The amount and spatial distribution of the injected ammonia are key considerations for NO reduction while using the minimum possible amount of ammonia. This work had three objectives. First, a flow network model of the Ammonia Flow Control Unit (AFCU) was to be developed to calculate the quantity of ammonia released into the flue gas from each AIG perforation. Second, CFD simulation of the flue gas flow was to be performed to obtain the velocity, temperature, and species concentration fields in the gas upstream and downstream of the SCR. Finally, performance characteristics of the ammonia injection system were to be evaluated. All three objectives were reached. The AFCU was modeled using JAVA - with a graphical user interface provided for the user. The commercial software Fluent was used for CFD simulation. To evaluate the efficacy of the ammonia injection system in reducing the flue gas NO concentration, the twelve butterfly valves in the AFCU ammonia delivery piping (risers) were throttled by various degrees in the model and the NO concentration distribution computed for each operational scenario. When the valves were kept fully open, it was found that it led to a more uniform reduction in NO concentration compared to throttling the valves such that the riser flows were equal. Additionally, the SCR catalyst was consumed somewhat more uniformly, and ammonia slip (ammonia not consumed in reaction) was found lower. The ammonia use could be decreased by 10 percent while maintaining the NO concentration limit in the flue gas exhausting into the atmosphere. / Dissertation/Thesis / M.S. Mechanical Engineering 2011

Advanced rotating shaft seals have the potential to significantly increase the efficiency and performance of steam and gas turbines. Two such seals, brush and leaf seals, rely on the use of thousands of flexible filaments to close clearances between rotating components and their static casings. The current life of the components is poor compared to the rest of the gas turbine, limiting the seals' deployment, particularly in the jet engine at high temperature and pressure. Poor understanding of the seal installation response to frictional heat generated at the point of filament-rotor contact during operation has limited the ability to predict engine closures and hence seal behaviour and life. The resulting temperature rises may compromise the mechanical integrity of the engine rotor in extremis leading to a shaft failure. This thesis considers the heat transfer mechanisms that govern frictional heating, of both the fluid and solid components in the vicinity of such seals, characterising the process both experimentally and using numerical models. Through the identification of key features of the heat transfer a simple numerical methodology is shown to predict the thermal behaviour of the seal installation sufficiently accurately for engine design purposes. A low order heat transfer model, using a simple electrical analogy for heat transfer is used to investigate frictional heat generation. When contact occurs between the rotor surface and the seal filaments, mechanical energy is dissipated as heat at the interface. This is conducted into the rotor and the seal filaments in proportions that depend on the heat transfer characteristics of both contacting bodies (thermal resistances). To calculate the heat partition ratio and the resulting contact temperature, the thermal resistances of both rotor and seal need to be known. To that end, a new test facility, the Seal Static Thermal Test Facility (SSTTF), is developed. This is first used to study the convective heat transfer occurring in the vicinity of the seal; heat transfer coefficients based on appropriate, scalable, gas reference temperatures are reported. Importantly the results show a larger area on the rotor surface affected by the presence of the seal than was assumed by previous workers. The test rig is further modified to generate heating in a static test rig equivalent to the frictional heating at the filament tips. The test rig allows the contact temperature between rotor and seal, a critical previously unknown parameter to be measured in a well-conditioned environment. The presence of many thousands of vanishingly small flow passages in filament seals makes their explicit modelling unfeasible for engine design purposes. Thus the results from the experimental campaign are used to develop a simple computational fluid dynamic model of the seal, including empirically derived frictional heating, and seal porosity models, to achieve similar leakage and surface heat transfer to the rotor as was seen in the static experiments. The low order CFD methodology presented in the thesis is finally employed to model the transient operation of a brush seal under engine representative rotor surface speeds and differential pressures. Experimental data were generated in the Oxford Engine Seal Test Facility for a typical brush seal rubbing against a high growth rotor. These experiments were modelled using CFD and finite element analysis using parameters derived from static tests for the porous modelling of the seal leakage. Comparison of results shows that, without further tuning, the thermal behaviour is captured well with a moderate conservative overestimation of rotor heating with increased differential pressure across the seal allowing the strategy to be used as an engine design tool.

Orientador: Antonio Carlos Bannwart / Dissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Faculdade de Engenharia Mecanica, Instituto de Geociencias / Made available in DSpace on 2018-08-14T16:09:37Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Lima_IvanNovilleRochaCorrea_M.pdf: 2854489 bytes, checksum: fec392ec12651861ca4547ea5ce279c9 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2009 / Resumo: O presente trabalho tem por objetivo central a medição experimental do coeficiente de transferência de calor bifásico no padrão gás-líquido horizontal intermitente, por ser este um padrão muito comum nas operações de produção de petróleo. Para alcançar esse objetivo, foi construído um aparato experimental consistindo de uma seção de testes alimentada por uma mistura pré-aquecida de ar e água, a diferentes pares de vazões e temperaturas de entrada. Para realizar a troca térmica, o tubo foi circundado por uma jaqueta de água gelada submetida a diversas vazões e temperaturas de entrada, formando, com o tubo central, uma seção de troca térmica de correntes paralelas. A metodologia experimental consistiu em medir a taxa de transferência de calor do fluido interno para o fluido externo e, a partir da diferença média de temperatura entre o fluido quente e a parede, determinar o coeficiente de transferência de calor entre o fluido quente e a parede, para cada elenco de condições de operação. O procedimento foi realizado tanto para os ensaios em escoamento monofásico como para o escoamento bifásico. Os resultados para o coeficiente de transferência de calor do fluido quente foram comparados às correlações e aos modelos existentes e apresentaram resultados satisfatórios. / Abstract: The main objective of the present work is the experimental measurement of the two-phase heat transfer coefficient in the intermittent horizontal gas-liquid flow pattern. This flow pattern is very common in oil production pipelines. In order to reach this objective, an experimental apparatus was built, consisting of a test section fed with an air-water mixture pre-heated at different pairs of inlet flow rates and temperatures. In order to realize the heat transfer, the pipe was surrounded by a jacket containing cold water under various inlet flow rates and temperatures, forming with the central pipe a heat transfer section of parallel current. The experimental methodology consisted of measuring the heat transfer rate from the internal to the external fluid, and from the average difference of the temperature between the hot fluid and the pipe wall, determine the heat transfer coefficient between the hot fluid and the pipe wall for each cast of operating condition. The procedure was carried through for both single phase and two-phase tests. The results of the heat transfer coefficients between the hot fluid were compared with some correlations and existing models and presented satisfactory results. / Mestrado / Explotação / Mestre em Ciências e Engenharia de Petróleo

Cette thèse, financée dans le cadre du projet européen CSP2, porte sur l'étude d'un nouveau type de récepteur solaire thermique à concentration utilisant comme fluide caloporteur une suspension dense de fines particules en circulation ascendante dans des tubes verticaux. Ladite suspension est obtenue par fluidisation de particules de classe A. Le principe consiste à créer un écoulement ascendant de la suspension dans un tube vertical exposé au rayonnement solaire concentré qui chauffe la paroi du tube, qui transmet ensuite cette chaleur aux particules, qui la transportent jusqu'à un cycle de conversion d'énergie pour la production d'électricité. Au contraire des fluides solaires classiques, les particules peuvent atteindre les hautes températures (> 700 °C) permettant l'utilisation de cycles à haut rendement de conversion (Brayton, cycles combinés), tout en permettant un stockage direct de la pour une production continue. Au cours de la thèse, un récepteur à un tube a été testé avec succès au grand four solaire du laboratoire PROMES-CNRS à Odeillo, les particules en sortie atteignant 750 °C, ce qui a prouvé la faisabilité du concept et permis la détermination des premières valeurs de coefficient d'échange de chaleur tube-suspension. L'hydrodynamique de l'écoulement et les mécanismes d'échange de chaleur ont été observés grâce à des simulations numériques 3D. Un récepteur de 150 kWth à 16 tubes a ensuite été testé et modélisé, validant l'utilisation du procédé à plus grande échelle. / This thesis, financed in the frame of the CSP2 European project, concerns the study of a new kind of thermal concentrating solar receiver using a dense suspension of solid particles circulating upward in vertical tubes. The suspension is obtained by fluidizing Geldart A-type particles. The principle consists in creating an upward flow of the suspension in a vertical tube exposed to the concentrated solar radiation that heats the tube wall. The heat is then transmitted to the particles circulating inside that transport it to a conversion cycle for electricity production. Contrarily to usual solar heat transfer fluids, particles can reach high temperatures (> 700 °C) that permit to power high efficiency thermodynamic cycles such as Brayton or combined cycles. Moreover they can be used as a direct heat storage medium for continuous electricity production. During this thesis, a one-tube solar receiver was successfully tested at the PROMES-CNRS solar furnace in Odeillo, with particle outlet temperatures of 750 °C reached. The first values of wall-to-suspension heat transfer coefficient were calculated and a Nusselt correlation was determined. A specific flow pattern with a particle downward flux close to the wall and upward flux in the tube center was underlined. The flow hydrodynamics and the heat transfer mechanisms were studied thanks to 3D numerical simulations. A 16-tube 150 kWth receiver was finally tested and modeled, proving the process applicability at larger scale.

Design and analysis of conceptually different cooling systems for the human heart preservation are numerically investigated. A heart cooling container with required connections was designed for a normal size human heart. A three-dimensional, high resolution human heart geometric model obtained from CT-angio data was used for simulations. Nine different cooling designs are introduced in this research. The first cooling design (Case 1) used a cooling gelatin only outside of the heart. In the second cooling design (Case 2), the internal parts of the heart were cooled via pumping a cooling liquid inside both the heart’s pulmonary and systemic circulation systems. An unsteady conjugate heat transfer analysis is performed to simulate the temperature field variations within the heart during the cooling process. Case 3 simulated the currently used cooling method in which the coolant is stagnant. Case 4 was a combination of Case 1 and Case 2. A linear thermoelasticity analysis was performed to assess the stresses applied on the heart during the cooling process. In Cases 5 through 9, the coolant solution was used for both internal and external cooling. For external circulation in Case 5 and Case 6, two inlets and two outlets were designed on the walls of the cooling container. Case 5 used laminar flows for coolant circulations inside and outside of the heart. Effects of turbulent flow on cooling of the heart were studied in Case 6. In Case 7, an additional inlet was designed on the cooling container wall to create a jet impinging the hot region of the heart’s wall. Unsteady periodic inlet velocities were applied in Case 8 and Case 9. The average temperature of the heart in Case 5 was +5.0oC after 1500 s of cooling. Multi-objective constrained optimization was performed for Case 5. Inlet velocities for two internal and one external coolant circulations were the three design variables for optimization. Minimizing the average temperature of the heart, wall shear stress and total volumetric flow rates were the three objectives. The only constraint was to keep von Mises stress below the ultimate tensile stress of the heart’s tissue.

Continuous processing in the pharmaceutical and fine chemical industries, particularly in micro/milli-scale reactors, has been a topic of interest in literature in recent years due to the advantages offered over batch reactions. One such advantage is the enhanced transport properties of operating at smaller scales, although the quantification of the transport phenomena is not straightforward when wall and entrance effects cannot be neglected. In the first study presented, various micro-mixer geometries and scales were considered to increase the mixing efficiency in liquid-liquid systems of diverse interfacial tensions for fast reactions. The conditions were varied over different flow regimes; including slug flow, parallel flow, and drop flow. A mass-transfer-limited test reaction was used to evaluate the overall volumetric mass transfer coefficients (Korga) as a function of the average rate of energy dissipation (ε) for each mixer design. The onset of drop flow occurred at a lower ε for the LL-Triangle mixer when compared with the Sickle or LL-Rhombus mixers for low interfacial-tension systems (i.e., n-butanol-water). In the drop flow regime for energy dissipation rates of around 20 to 500 W/kg, Korga values ranged from approximatively 0.14 to 0.35 s-1 and 0.004 to 0.015 s-1 for the relatively low and high interfacial-tension (i.e., toluene-water) systems, respectively. The second investigation explored the heat transfer properties of a FlowPlate® system by Ehrfeld Mikrotechnik BTS. First, in a non-reactive system with rectangular serpentine channels (d_h<1mm, 400<Re<2000), a Gnielinski-type model was fit to the internal Nusselt number. Using a silver-based thermal paste between the reactor and heat transfer fluid plates proved to reduce the external resistance to heat transfer by ~70%, yielding overall heat transfer coefficients of ~2200 [W/(m^2 K)]. Secondly, a Grignard reaction was highlighted as a test reaction to compare different reactors’ localized heat transfer characteristics (i.e., hotspot formation) with various micro-mixer geometries, materials, injection ports, and channel scales. Lastly, a case study of four reactions utilized the fourth Damköhler number to determine a maximum channel diameter that would remove sufficient heat to avoid hotspot formation. Each of these studies provides insight to aid in the proper selection of a reactor for a given set of physical properties and reaction kinetics/enthalpies.

Sprinkled tube bundles with a thin liquid film flowing over them are used in various technology processes where it is necessary to separate the vapour and liquid phases quickly and efficiently. The process occurs predominantly at low temperatures with a corresponding decrease of pressure around the tube bundle. Such a technology is represented for instance by an evaporator at absorption units or an evaporator for sea water desalination. In ideal conditions water boils at the whole surface of an exchanger, but in practice it must be considered that in original spots of contact between water and the exchanger wall the water will not boil at the tubes' surface but the cooling liquid will merely be heated-up. The presented dissertation thesis focuses on this issue. The objective of the thesis was to determine the heat transfer coefficient at the surface of sprinkled tube bundles of various geometries at atmospheric pressure as well as low pressure. For this purpose experiments have been carried out at tube bundles consisting of copper tubes of 12,0 mm diameter placed horizontally one above another that were heated by water. Three types of tubes (smooth, sandblasted and grooved) of four various pitches (15,0 to 30,0 mm by 5,0 mm increments) have been tested. Simultaneously individual bundles' geometries consisted of 4, 6, 8 and 10 tubes with identical surface finish. Based on the conducted experiments the mathematical model of heat transfer that involves mainly analogy criteria has been made more accurate. A temperature field at the sprinkled tube bundle surface has been scanned by a thermographic camera during the performed experiments. Influence of geometry and tube surface finish on flow mode and consequently also on heat transfer has been assessed in accordance with the compiled methodology.

<p>With the extreme increases in power density of electronic devices, the contact thermal resistance imposed at interfaces between mating solids becomes a major challenge in thermal management. This contact thermal resistance is mainly caused by micro-scale surface asperities (roughness) and wavy profile of surface (nonflatness) which severely reduce the contact area available for heat conduction. High contact pressures (1~100 MPa) can be used to deform the surface asperities to increase contact area. Besides, a variety of conventional thermal interface materials (TIM), such as greases and pastes, are used to improve the contact thermal conductance by filling the remaining air gaps. However, there are still some applications where such TIMs are disallowed for reworkability concerns. For example, heat must be transferred across dry interfaces to a heat sink in pluggable opto-electronic transceivers which needs to repeatedly slide into / out of contact with the heat sink. Dry contact and low contact pressures are required for this sliding application.</p> <p>This dissertation presents a metallized micro-spring array as a surface coating to enhance dry contact thermal conductance under ultra-low interfacial contact pressure. The shape of the micro-springs is designed to be mechanically compliant to achieve conformal contact between nonflat surfaces. The polymer scaffolds of the micro-structured TIMs are fabricated by using a custom projection micro-stereolithography (μSL) system. By applying the projection scheme, this method is more cost-effective and high-throughput than other 3D micro-fabrication methods using a scanning scheme. The thermal conductance of polymer micro-springs is further enhanced by metallization using plating and surface polishing on their top surfaces. The measured mechanical compliance of TIMs indicates that they can deform ~10s μm under ~10s kPa contact pressures over their footprint area, which is large enough to accommodate most of surface nonflatness of electronic packages. The measured thermal resistances of the TIM at different fabrication stages confirms the enhanced thermal conductance by applying metallization and surface polishing. Thermal resistances of the TIMs are compared to direct metal-to-metal contact thermal resistance for flat and nonflat mating surfaces, which confirms that the TIM outperforms direct contact. A thin layer of soft polymer is coated on the top surfaces of the TIMs to accommodate surface roughness that has a smaller spatial period than the micro-springs. For rough surfaces, the polymer-coated TIM has reduced thermal resistance which is comparable to a benchmark case where the top surfaces of the TIM are glued to the mating surface. A polymer base is designed under the micro-spring array which can provide the advantages for handling as a standalone material or integration convenience, at the toll of an increased insertion resistance. Through-holes are designed in the base layer and coated with thermally conductive metal after metallization to enhance thermal conductance of the base layer; a thin layer of epoxy is applied between the base layer and the working surface to reduce contact thermal resistance exposed on the base layer. Cycling tests are conducted on the TIMs; the results show good early-stage reliability of the TIM under normal pressure, sliding contact, and temperature cycles. The TIM is thermally demonstrated on a pluggable application, namely, a CFP4 module, which shows enhanced thermal conductance by applying the TIM. </p> To further enhance the potential mechanical compliance of microstructured surfaces, a stable double curved beam structure with near-zero stiffness composed of intrinsic negative and positive stiffness elastic elements is designed and fabricated by introducing residual stresses. Stiffness measurements shows that the positive-stiffness single curved beam, which is the same as the top beam in the double curved beam, is stiffer than the double curved beam, which confirms the negative stiffness of the bottom beam in the double curved beam. Layered near zero-stiffness materials made of these structures are built to demonstrate the scalability of the zero-stiffness zone.