Transcritical CO2 Heat Pump Dryer: Part 1. Mathematical Model and Simulation

In this study, a mathematical model and simulation code has been developed to investigate the performance of a transcritical CO₂ heat pump dryer. The model takes into account detailed heat and mass transfer and pressure drop phenomena occurring in each component of the system. To take care of the variable heat transfer properties, the heat exchanger components were divided into several infinitesimal segments to examine the state, heat and mass balance and pressure drop for both refrigerant and air, and hence accurate results are expected. In Part 2 of the article, the model developed has been validated with experimental data and then the model was used to investigate effects of important operating parameters on the performance.     

Flow phenomena and local heat and mass transfer in corrugated passages

Flow phenomena, local heat and mass transfer and pressure drop of corrugated passages in process equipment are examined. Based on a method for measuring local heat and mass transfer, developed in previous investigations, a procedure has been formulated for the determination of local heat and mass transfer in corrugated passages. Using the analogy between heat and mass transfer, this technique allows the determination of heat transfer distributions in any structures with high local resolution. The corresponding pressure drop is presented together with the local and integral heat and mass transfer of different structures. It is shown that differences in heat and mass transfer as well as in pressure drop are due to different flow phenomena which also characterize mixing behaviour.     

湿工况下泡沫金属内换热和压降的数值模拟和实验验证

泡沫金属应用到换热器空气侧有望提高析湿工况下的换热性能。为了了解湿空气在泡沫金属内的热质传递和压降特性,建立了泡沫金属内液滴形成、生长和运动特性的数值模型。基于液滴成核数目和成核临界半径得出液滴形成过程的传质率模型;通过建立液滴与湿空气相界面附近湿空气中水蒸气的组分守恒方程,得出液滴生长过程的传质率模型;通过对不同孔棱柱表面液滴的受力分析,建立在重力和风力的共同作用下的液滴接触角模型。将液滴形成及生长的传质率模型和接触角模型分别作为质量源项和表面张力源项,加入连续性方程、动量方程和能量方程组中,实现对泡沫金属内液滴生长、形成和运动过程模拟。模型的实验验证结果表明,换热量预测值与实验结果的最大偏差为11.9%,压降预测值与实验结果的最大偏差为17.7%。     

水平横槽纹管内氨沸腾换热及压降特性实验研究

对水平横槽纹管内氨沸腾换热及其压降特性进行了实验研究，获得了不同热流密度、不同质量流速和不同局部蒸汽干度下沸腾换热和压降的实验数据。实验结果表明，在本实验的参数范围内，与光滑管相比，横槽纹管在压降增加不大的情况下可使管内沸腾换热系数提高３０％～１５０％，横槽纹管的节距减小对传热强化的作用明显，而对槽深的影响不大。还给出了横槽纹管内氨局部沸腾换热和压降的无因次准则关系式。     

微通道内单乙醇胺水溶液吸收CO2/N2混合气的传质特性

采用高速摄像仪对400 μm×400 μm T形微通道内单乙醇胺（MEA）水溶液吸收混合气中CO₂过程的气液两相流及传质特性进行了实验研究,微通道内的压力降采用压力传感器进行测量。考察了弹状流型下气液两相流量及MEA浓度对压力降、比表面积和传质性能的影响。结果表明,当MEA浓度不变,气液两相流量增大时,压力降、比表面积、传质系数、体积传质系数和增强因子均增大,并逐渐趋于恒定。当气液流量不变,MEA浓度增大时,压力降、传质系数、体积传质系数和增强因子增大,但比表面积减小。实验条件下,压力降范围为2.00~5.23 kPa,化学吸收过程的传质系数范围为7.74×10^-4~2.97×10^-3 m·s^-1。对于伴有快速化学反应的传质过程,以Sherwood数、Reynolds数、Schmidt数及增强因子为变量建立了体积传质系数的预测关联式,平均偏差为5.09%,具有良好的预测性能。     

Heat transfer to submerged surfaces in coarse-grained pressurized fluidized beds and fixed beds

This contribution reports on the theory underlying a uniform representation of heat transfer to submerged surfaces in fixed bed reactors and of gas convective part of heat transfer in fluidized beds with coarse-grained bulk solids and/or at elevated pressure. Based on an analysis of the pressure drop behaviour of fixed bed percolation at different gas pressures and with different bulk solids, a new dimensionless pressure drop parameter was developed. Fixed bed heat transfer data are very well correlated by this new dimensionless number. As soon as fluid throughput is in excess of minimum fluidization velocity, the pressure drop parameter transforms into the well-known Archimedes number. These two dimensionless numbers are connected by the condition of equilibrium for pressure drop and mass of practices in a fluidized bed. This equilibrium is fulfilled as soon as fluidization commences. Up to now, the Archimedes number has been generally accepted as the significant parameter, determining the gas convective part of heat transfer in fluidized beds; however, without any physical interpretation of this parameter. Introduction of the pressure drop number, which is consistent with the Archimedes number, reduces the heat transfer behaviour to pressure drop characteristics. The usefulness of this concept is proven by the comparison of experimental results and prediction.     

超临界二氧化碳在微细管内的换热特性

建立了内径为1.31 mm单管的三维模型,使用CFD软件Fluent分析了超临界二氧化碳在竖直微细管道内的换热特性,并对热通量、进口质量流速、流动方向和压力对超临界二氧化碳换热和压降的影响进行了研究。数值结果表明：增加进口质量流量能够使壁面边界层减薄,增强换热效果。改变热通量的大小对超临界二氧化碳换热和压降影响很小。由于重力和浮升力的影响,流动方向对换热性能的影响较大,流体竖直向上流动时的传热系数大于竖直向下和水平方向流动时的传热系数。     

FST高效塔板传质元件内气相流场的数值模拟

FST高效塔板是一种喷射型塔板,同鼓泡型塔板相比,具有高通量、低压降等特点。塔板传质元件的结构会很大的影响塔板的传质效率和压降,为了优化塔板结构设计,提升塔板性能,有必要研究不同结构传质元件的效果。本文使用FLUENT软件对FST高效塔板传质元件开展数值模拟研究,得到传质元件内部气相流场,对比了3种结构传质元件内部气相流场的分布情况,考察了除雾叶片、旋流叶片径向角对气相流场的影响。结果显示除雾叶片会增强传质元件的除雾效果,降低塔板的雾沫夹带,但也会带来额外的塔压降。旋流叶片径向角会增强气相旋流强度,强化传质效果,但是也会带来压降过大、回流过大的问题。为优化设计塔板传质元件,应综合考虑各结构因素的影响,合理平衡塔板压降与传质效果、除雾效果。     

三叶孔板换热器壳程传热与压降

三叶孔板换热器是一种新型纵向流换热器,由于其具有传热效率高、压降低、抗振结构性能优越等诸多优点而广泛应用于核电行业。搭建三叶孔板换热器壳程传热与压降测试平台,对传热和压降的测量结果进行不确定度分析。对4台三叶孔板换热器模型进行实验研究,结果表明随着Reynolds数的增大,壳程对流传热系数和压降在对数坐标内线性增大;在Reynolds数相同的情况下,随着支撑板间距的增大,三叶孔板换热器壳程Nusselt数逐渐减小,压降逐渐降低,同时压力梯度逐渐减小。为了进一步分析说明三叶孔板换热器壳程传热与阻力性能,基于Bell-Delaware法设计了具有相同结构参数的折流板换热器。与折流板换热器的对比结果表明：三叶孔板换热器壳程Nusselt数平均为折流板换热器的1.25倍,壳程整体压力平均为折流板换热器的0.77,综合性能平均为折流板换热器的1.62倍。     

车用热泵内部冷凝器结构对性能的影响

以三换热器汽车热泵系统中的内部冷凝器为研究对象,实验研究了迎风面积与厚度相等时单层二流程与双层四流程的性能差别,发现双层冷凝器比单层的换热能力最大可增加7.9%,但压降增加了177.6%。建立了双层四流程冷凝器一维仿真模型,研究了当制冷剂为R134a与R1234yf时其在不同结构下的换热量与制冷剂侧压降。结果表明：不同流程排布的换热量差别较小,排布为11-12-12-11时,各个工况的R134a侧压降都显著减小;固定第二层厚度,第一层厚度从10 mm到20 mm,高风速工况下R134a的换热量最大增加10.4%,压降最大可减小63.6%;固定总厚度,采用不同的两层厚度组合,换热量变化较小,存在性能较优的两层厚度组合16 mm-8 mm与14 mm-10 mm;制冷剂为R1234yf时换热量和压降分别比R134a降低了8.02%和47.0%。     

The Interaction of solute transfer,contaminants and dro break-up in rotating disc contactors: Part II. The coupling of the mass transfer and breakage processes via interfacial tension

In order to investigate the influence of solute transfer and of surface active agents on the drop breakage process in liquih liquid extraction columns, their effect on the interfacial tension has to be studied in detail. The difficulty encountered is that the interfacial tension during solute transfer continuously changes and that no simple apparatus is commercially available which can measure these varying interfacial tension values. An attempt has been made here to theoretically predict them. The equations developed to predict the interfacial tension variation can be combined with a model for the breakage process and hence drop size distributions can be calculated from stage to stage. Applying a new combined film mass transfer coefficient model which takes into account the effect of contaminants, single drop extraction performance has been calculated for simplified conditions of constant bulk concentration in the continuous phase. Calculated efficiencies have been compared with experimental data and a good simulation of contaminant effects and dependency on drop size has been found. The calculations were restricted to low dispersed phase hold-up values, so that coalescence effects could be ignored. This work provides the required support for a procedure to be applied to counter-current flow extraction columns.     

Vapor Condensation Heat Transfer in a Thermoplate Heat Exchanger

The heat transfer and pressure drop in a thermoplate heat exchanger operating as a condenser have been investigated experimentally. In order to separate the heat transfer resistances in the condensation process, the single phase forced convection has been studied using distilled water and Marlotherm oil in the thermoplate and correlations developed for the Nusselt number and the friction factor. For the condensation experiments, an apparatus has been constructed comprising two identical condensers composed of the same thermoplate type as employed in the single phase experiments. Isopropanol is used as a test fluid at pressures below atmospheric pressure. The heat transfer resistances in the condensation experiments are separated and expressions for the condensation heat transfer and pressure drop are developed with the aid of the results obtained in the single phase studies.     

双排对折型微通道换热器仿真模型开发

针对双排对折型微通道换热器,建立三维分布参数模型,基于双排对折的独特结构分别划分换热区和集流管的控制单元,并创新性提出一种基于流程的制冷剂流路描述方法。调研并整理了公开发表文献中记载的适用于微通道换热器的制冷剂侧和空气侧的换热及压降关联式,使模型能够应用于各类工况。建立模型的控制方程,并开发一种换热-压降交替迭代的快速求解算法,基于此计算换热器性能,并用试验数据验证模型的计算精度。结果表明,基于此仿真模型计算的换热器平均换热误差小于5%,制冷剂侧平均压降误差小于10%,满足实际工程需求。     

多孔铝内体积对流传热系数的测量

引　言多孔铝 (合金 )作为一种高孔隙率 (孔隙率 >0 9)多孔介质 ,具有明显的多功能性[1] .通孔型多孔铝是指多孔铝的内部孔隙互相连通 ,且外部流体可以通过 ,具有比表面积大、质量轻的特点 ,是开发强化换热装置的优选材料 ,有可能在新型紧凑式换热器、回热器、风冷冷凝器 (或冷却塔 )等换热设备研制过程中获得应用 .但流体流经多孔铝的　对流换热特性实验数据比较缺乏 ,对各种影响因素的研究也欠充分 .Hwang等[2 ] 测量了空气流经70 %、 80 %、 95 %三种孔隙率多孔铝的体积对流传热系数 ,但缺乏对孔隙密度、母材性质等影响的研究 .何德坪…     

动力型热管内R134a流动凝结传热过程的特性

针对动力型热管内流动凝结传热过程中的特性复杂未知,搭建了动力型热管冷凝特性测试实验台。对不同流量及干度下的R134a管内流动凝结过程中的压降特性和传热特性进行了实验研究,实验结果表明：压降随着管内工质质量流量和气体干度的增加而增加,与文献中3种不同压降模型进行了比较,得出Muller-Steinhagen-Heck模型能更好地预测管内流动凝结过程中的压降特性。传热系数随着管内工质质量流量和气体干度的增加而增加,并且低干度区的增长斜率要明显大于高干度区的增长斜率,与文献中4种不同传热模型进行了比较,得出Chen模型能更好地预测管内流动凝结过程中的传热特性。该研究为泵的选择、换热器的设计、系统的优化以及两相流凝结相变过程的研究提供了理论参考。     

The generalized Lévêque equation and its practical use for the prediction of heat and mass transfer rates from pressure drop

Based on the generalized Lévêque equation (GLE) a new type of analogy between pressure drop and heat transfer has been discovered, that may be used in the cross corrugated channels of chevron type plate heat exchangers, in packed beds, in tube bundles, in crossed rod matrices or in many other spacewise periodic arrangements.Experimental data on heat transfer in tube bundles in crossflow, both inline, and staggered arrangements, had been recently tested in greater detail. Using an empirical correlation for pressure drop in these arrangements from the literature that has been successfully tested against a large number of experimental pressure drop data, heat transfer data collected earlier could be very well represented from the pressure drop correlation and the GLE. The data for staggered bundles have been shown to be in better agreement with this new method, than with the existing empirical heat and mass transfer correlations. Somewhat larger deviations for inline tube bundles had been found at lower Reynolds numbers. Here a simple and physically reasonable correction function of Re is presented, which leads to a better agreement for the inline bundles, too.Additionally, it can be shown for a number of literature data on tube bundles and on crossed rod matrices that the agreement with the GLE prediction is even better if original pressure drop data from the same sources are available in place of a pressure drop correlation.The method results in reasonable heat or mass transfer predictions from frictional pressure drop, which may be widely used in chemical engineering applications.     

折流板间距对换热器性能影响的数值研究

采用CFD数值模拟方法,研究了简化模型下弓形折流板和螺旋折流板换热器,对应于不同间距/螺距时,流动参量的变化对换热器整体流动与传热性能的影响。结果表明,两种结构对应的壳程压力损失和换热系数均随壳程流量的增加而增大,而螺旋折流板结构单位压降下换热系数大于弓形折流板,并且其性能受折流板螺距变化的影响较小,体现了螺旋折流板结构的优越性。计算结果与现有实验结论吻合较好。     

基于两相流流型的平行流冷凝器整体仿真模型与实验验证

引言平行流冷凝器作为一种新颖的换热器加之其不同于传统翅片管换热器的结构,因此其传热流动性能尚处研究之中。尤其是平行流冷凝器制冷剂侧微通道两相流机制及其转变不同于常规的管子,以往关于平行流冷凝器整体仿真模型的研究中,微通道两相流数值模拟大都采用传统大管径模型或者修正     

Numerical Simulation of Manifold Microchannel Heat Sinks for Thermal Management in a Li-Ion Battery

The microchannel heat sink is an effective technology for the thermal management of Li-ion batteries. The overall performance of two heat sinks with improved thermal management of Li-ion batteries was determined by a numerical simulation model. A manifold microchannel heat sink (MMC) and a traditional microchannel heat sink (TMC) with different aspect ratios of microchannels were developed. Thermal transfer performance and pressure drop characteristics of two heat sinks were compared by Fluent. Results indicate that the temperature uniformity of the TMC is worse than that of the MMC. The total pressure drop of TMC is significantly higher as compared to that of the MMC. Consequently, the MMC has a better overall performance than the TMC.