EXTERNAL FLUID HEATING OF A POROUS ED |
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Authors: | Sam V Shelton William J Wepfer Daniel J Miles |
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Affiliation: |
a The George W. Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA |
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Abstract: | This work deals with the thermal analysis of externally heated porous beds of finite length. A one dimensional model was developed that includes conduction and storage in both the fluid and bed, convective exchange between the fluid and bed, and the effect of adsorption/desorption in the bed. This model results in two coupled differential equations for the fluid and bed temperatures as functions of four independent dimensionless parameters. These equations were solved numerically using finite difference approximations. A truncation error analysis was carried out to maintain an accurate solution. The method of normalization is such that the results of this analysis are of use in bed design when the breakthrough characteristics in finite length beds are of interest. A method to measure bed thermal performance is defined and a means to optimize bed thermal performance is presented. An experiment was conducted to validate the numerically obtained results. A comparison of numerical to experimental results is presented |
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Keywords: | Breakthrough Thermal wavelength Thermal storage Adsorption beds Finite length beds Heat Transfer |
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