The mathematical equations describing transient heat transfer between the fluid flowing through a fixed bed and a moving bed of packing were formulated. The resistance to heat transfer within the packing due to its finite thermal conductivity was taken into account.
An approximate integral method was applied to obtain an analytical solution to transient response of the bed packing. Results for two cases of fixed and moving bed were obtained. The validity of the approximate method was checked against the more exact method employed by Handley and Heggs who obtained the results for a fixed bed of packing with a step change in fluid inlet temperature. It was concluded that the approximate method gives results that agree well with the more exact methods.
The method considered here provides a quick determination of the packing mean temperature in order to obtain the effectiveness. The other peculiarity of this method is that the effect of packing thermal conductivity can be examined very quickly since the solution is in analytical form. The analysis of the results revealed that as the thermal conductivity of the packing decreases the difference between its surface and mean temperature increases. A series of charts showing the comparison between the packing surface and mean temperatures for different thermal conductivities are presented. The approximate method was a moving bed of packing. It was packing thermal conductivity is series of charts representing versus dimensionless length conductivities are presented.
then applied to the case of concluded that the effect of more severe than expected. A the moving bed effectiveness for different thermal / Applied Science, Faculty of / Mechanical Engineering, Department of / Graduate
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:UBC/oai:circle.library.ubc.ca:2429/25137 |
| Date | January 1985 |
| Creators | Riahi, Ardeshir |
| Publisher | University of British Columbia |
| Source Sets | University of British Columbia |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Text, Thesis/Dissertation |
| Rights | For non-commercial purposes only, such as research, private study and education. Additional conditions apply, see Terms of Use https://open.library.ubc.ca/terms_of_use. |
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