Dimensional modelling of wood pyrolysis using a nodal approach

New gasification installations and techniques are being tested today but they all struggle with mainly the same drawbacks such as removal of various pollutants in the producer gas or clogging of material pathways.This work is oriented on developing a new model for the non-oxidative pyrolysis step of a gasification process as a part of a wider research conducted on the overall gasification of wood waste. A batch reactor is modelled by means of nodal modelling, a technique widely used for simple heat transfer processes. Additionally to the heat transport inside the batch reactor the model uses a simple and versatile generic chemistry and simplified mass transfer principles. Thermal data from modelling is compared with data obtained from an experimental batch pyrolysis reactor using wood sawdust and cutter shavings. Experimental and theoretical results regarding thermal phenomena are in good agreement.     

多孔材料中甲烷水合物生成的传热数值模拟研究

水合物储运(NGH)是近几年发展起来的天然气储运技术,已具备实现工业化的潜力。但水合物的生长是传质传热控制的反应,因此在放大实验中存在诸多不确定因素。针对该问题,对水合物反应器中多孔材料内甲烷水合物生成传热过程建立了基于化学反应动力学和多孔材料内传质传热的甲烷水合物生成传热数学模型,可用于计算反应器内水合物生成分布和热量分布,指导水合反应器的设计和优化。通过模拟与实验数据对比验证了该模型的可靠性,并对使用了不同热导率填料的水合反应过程进行数值模拟。结果显示,模拟值与实验值的绝对平均相对误差小于6%,生成传热模型准确性高;在水合反应过程中,热量传递是影响水合物生成速率的关键因素之一。导热不良时,易在水合物生成中心部分形成局部过热,对水合物生长造成热抑制。在进行水合物生成放大实验时,应特别注意反应器内部的热量控制。     

多孔材料中甲烷水合物生成的传热数值模拟研究

水合物储运(NGH)是近几年发展起来的天然气储运技术,已具备实现工业化的潜力。但水合物的生长是传质传热控制的反应,因此在放大实验中存在诸多不确定因素。针对该问题,对水合物反应器中多孔材料内甲烷水合物生成传热过程建立了基于化学反应动力学和多孔材料内传质传热的甲烷水合物生成传热数学模型,可用于计算反应器内水合物生成分布和热量分布,指导水合反应器的设计和优化。通过模拟与实验数据对比验证了该模型的可靠性,并对使用了不同热导率填料的水合反应过程进行数值模拟。结果显示,模拟值与实验值的绝对平均相对误差小于6%,生成传热模型准确性高;在水合反应过程中,热量传递是影响水合物生成速率的关键因素之一。导热不良时,易在水合物生成中心部分形成局部过热,对水合物生长造成热抑制。在进行水合物生成放大实验时,应特别注意反应器内部的热量控制。     

Numerical and experimental investigations on thermal debinding of polymeric binder of powder injection molding compact

A mathematical model is established to describe the thermal debinding process of polymeric binder from a powder injection molding compact. The model takes into account of the thermal degradation of liquid polymer into liquid volatile fragment, the evaporation of liquid volatile fragment, the capillary driven liquid phase transport, the binary diffusion in solution, the convection and diffusion of gas phases, and the heat transfer in a porous medium. The proposed model is solved numerically based on a finite volume method and validated with experimental data. Based on the numerical results, the binder removal, the pressure buildup, the binder distribution, the mass transfers, and the removal mechanisms during thermal debinding are studied.     

Modelling of adsorption separation of gas mixtures with allowance made for the thermal effects accompanying adsorption: V. Specific patterns of adsorption separation of one substance from a gas mixture in the adiabatic case

The procedure for the elimination of the terms of model equations of non-isothermal adsorption dynamics for multicomponent mixtures that take into account dispersive factors (both the kinetics of mass and heat transfer and longitudinal mixing and longitudinal heat conductance along the adsorber) has been analysed. It is emphasized that the elimination of terms is only valid in the case where conditions ‘F’ (see References 19 and 20) are satisfied. The transformation of the stable frontal patterns into unstable frontal patterns using the Langmuir thermal adsorption equations is shown. The concept of effective thermal diffusion for the adiabatic adsorption of one substance in the mixed kinetic region in the absence of the ‘classical’ thermal diffusion transfer within porous grains of adsorbents is considered. The role and the influence of effective thermal diffusion and diffusion thermal heat and mass transfer on the kinetics and dynamics of adiabatic adsorption have also been analysed. For various thermal models of the adiabatic case simple practical formulae have been obtained for use in calculating the width of heat and mass transfer zones in the real laboratory and in industrial adsorbers.     

不可压热流体中气体传质扩散过程的数值模拟

控制流体流动中溶解的气体分子浓度能有效控制流动过程中的化学反应,而由热产生的自然对流能够加强气体分子的传递,因此研究气体分子在热流体流动中的扩散混合过程有重要意义。应用格子Boltzmann方法,耦合热效应和扩散效应,数值模拟了一个简化的容器中随着自然对流的发展,溶解的氧气分子在整个容器中的扩散过程。首先建立了二维9速模型的双扩散模型来模拟热量和质量的双扩散对流。为了考察不同自然对流流动对气体分子传递的影响,设计了3种不同给热条件,对不同热流动的形成过程和气体分子扩散过程进行了模拟,与文献结果吻合良好。通过详细分析热边界如何影响流动和传质过程,证实了模拟的速度场与文献数据差异的合理性,同时为控制气体传质过程提供给热条件的设计依据。     

光热驱动多孔氧化铈热化学循环解水制氢非热质平衡模型

热化学循环太阳燃料技术过程所涉及的多孔介质中复杂反应及热质传递过程,尚未建立较为完善的数学模型。以多孔氧化铈热化学循环解水过程为研究对象,将颗粒尺度的氧输运与宏观尺度的热质输运相耦合,提出完整的光热驱动条件下多孔介质非热质平衡模型,实验数据对比验证了动力学及热质输运模型的可靠性,分析了两种尺度(颗粒及床层)下,非热平衡效应、入射辐射热流、反应物浓度对动态过程的影响。入射辐射在床层的体积效应下,轴向的温度梯度使得缺陷反应的热力学平衡控制最大氧空位浓度出现在床层前侧,在缺陷反应的动态过程中,氧化过程相较于还原反应更快,提高多孔载氧体反应器的产物H₂浓度应主要从还原阶段中反应过程及条件出发。可为该类问题的建模和过程设计提供较为完整的理论基础和参考路径。     

SIMULATION OF HYDRATION/DEHYDRATION OF CaO/Ca(OH)2 CHEMICAL HEAT PUMP REACTOR FOR COLD/HOT HEAT GENERATION

ABSTRACT

A chemical heat pump (CHP) utilizes reversible reactions involving significant endothermic and exothermic heats of reaction in order to develop a heat pump effect by storing and releasing energy while transforming it from chemical to thermal energy and vice versa. In this paper, we present a mathematical model and its numerical solution for the heat and mass transport phenomena occurring in the reactant particle bed of the CHP for heat storage and cold/hot heat generation based on the CaO/Ca(OH)₂ reversible hydration/dehydration reaction

Transient conservation equations of mass and energy transport including chemical kinetics are solved numerically subject to appropriate boundary and initial conditions to examine the influence of the mass transfer resistance on the overall performance of this CHP configuration. These results are presented and discussed with the aim of enhancing the CHP performance in next generation reactor designs.     

光热驱动多孔氧化铈热化学循环解水制氢非热质平衡模型

热化学循环太阳燃料技术过程所涉及的多孔介质中复杂反应及热质传递过程,尚未建立较为完善的数学模型。以多孔氧化铈热化学循环解水过程为研究对象,将颗粒尺度的氧输运与宏观尺度的热质输运相耦合,提出完整的光热驱动条件下多孔介质非热质平衡模型,实验数据对比验证了动力学及热质输运模型的可靠性,分析了两种尺度(颗粒及床层)下,非热平衡效应、入射辐射热流、反应物浓度对动态过程的影响。入射辐射在床层的体积效应下,轴向的温度梯度使得缺陷反应的热力学平衡控制最大氧空位浓度出现在床层前侧,在缺陷反应的动态过程中,氧化过程相较于还原反应更快,提高多孔载氧体反应器的产物H₂浓度应主要从还原阶段中反应过程及条件出发。可为该类问题的建模和过程设计提供较为完整的理论基础和参考路径。     

The effect of thermal diffusion in multicomponent gas absorption

The contribution of thermal diffusion to interfacial mass transfer rates is examined in multicomponent gas absorption systems. Each interfacial flux is expressed as the product of the isothermal expression corresponding to the bulk temperature of the liquid and a dimensionless correction factor that includes the pure heat effects in multicomponent absorption and the contributions of thermal diffusion. It is shown that when the influence of thermal diffusion is to increase the interfacial mass flux, it is opposite to the heat effect and that the two effects may cancel within a realistic range of values of the thermal diffusion coefficient. A monotonic trend to greater significance of thermal diffusion with the number of components being absorbed is illustrated. This trend is shown to be very rapid for the more dilute species in the mixture. Examples based on the absorption of propane, n-pentane, and n-hexane by paraffin oil are treated. The error induced in the correction factor for the flux of n-pentane by neglecting thermal diffusion when adding propane and n-hexane is less than 6·1 per cent, but the corresponding result for propane is 59·2 per cent for a thermal diffusion coefficient of 1· X 10⁻⁷ g/(cm sec °K) for each species.     

Maxwell-Stefan方程及其在多元相间传质中的应用

多元物系传质过程与二元物系传质过程有着本质的区别 ,由于组分间的交互作用 ,多元物系传质各组分传质效率不相等 ,其分布范围可在 -∞至 +∞之间 ,某些组分可能产生逆向传质、渗透传质、传质障碍等传质奇异现象 ,这些现象用传统的二元物系传质规律无法作出解释 ,必须用Maxwell Stefan方程进行描述。该文综述了Maxwell Stefan方程的由来、求解方法及其在多元相间传质中的应用。     

Mathematical modelling of essential oil SFE on the micro-scale—Classification of plant material

This article reports the achievements of the micro-scale (secretory-structure-scale) mathematical modelling of essential oil isolation by supercritical carbon dioxide. Some new experimental and modelling results are presented. The improved model for the supercritical fluid extraction from the glandular trichomes (peltate glands) is introduced. According to the behavior of plant secretory structures during the extraction as well as according to the modelling results, plant material was classified according to the dominant resistance to mass transfer during the extraction process. External mass transfer was the rate limiting step in the extraction from plants with secretory ducts and secretory cavities of citrus family. In the case of extraction from secretory cells, internal diffusion was the rate limiting step. In the extraction from glandular trichomes, external mass transfer, as well as diffusion through the gland membrane influenced the process.     

Inverse Finite Element Analysis of Technological Processes of Heat and Mass Transport in Agricultural and Forest Products

Due to complexity of agricultural and forest products, the mathematical model coefficients are often dubious, as experimental determination of their values leads to erroneous results. To solve this problem an inverse finite element analysis software was developed to identify coefficient values of the heat and mass transport model and to predict and visualize the processes. The model reflected 3D structure of investigated systems comprising the heat conduction and moisture diffusion in heterogeneous, anisotropic, and irregularly shaped products represented by wood and cereal grain kernels. Test cases used to validate the software covered identification of the thermal conductivity, convective heat transfer coefficient, diffusion coefficient, equilibrium moisture content, and convective mass transfer coefficient in pine and beech wood, and also in corn. Implementation of the proposed optimization algorithm and improvement of the software functionality resulted in more effective and accurate identification of the coefficient values, demonstrated by increased accuracy and reliability of predicting the heat conduction and water diffusion processes.     

生物质热裂解实验和模型研究(英文)

The analysis on the feedstock pyrolysis characteristic and the impacts of process parameters on pyrolysis outcomes can assist in the designing,operating and optimizing pyrolysis processes.This work aims to utilize both experimental and modelling approaches to perform the analysis on three biomass feedstocks—wood sawdust,bamboo shred and Jatropha Curcas seed cake residue,and to provide insights for the design and operation of pyrolysis processes.For the experimental part,the study investigated the effect of heating rate,final pyrolysis temperature and sample size on pyrolysis using common thermal analysis techniques.For the modelling part,a transient mathematical model that integrates the feedstock characteristic from the experimental study was used to simulate the pyrolysis progress of selected biomass feedstock particles for reactor scenarios.The model composes of several sub-models that describe pyrolysis kinetic and heat flow,particle heat transfer,particle shrinking and reactor operation.With better understanding of the effects of process conditions and feedstock characteristics on pyrolysis through both experimental and modelling studies,this work discusses on the considerations of and interrelation between feedstock size,pyrolysis energy usage,processing time and product quality for the design and operation of pyrolysis processes.     

Mass transport with varying diffusion- and solubility coefficient through a catalytic membrane layer

Mass transport, accompanied by chemical reaction through membrane reactor has been investigated in the case of varying diffusion coefficient and solubility coefficient. In reality, both parameters might depend on the concentration and/or on the inhomogeneity of the membrane layer. General mathematical models were developed to describe the mass transport, taking into account the external mass transfer resistances as well, when the solubility coefficient can vary, e.g. according to the Langmuir–Hinschelwood adsorption theory or when the value of diffusion coefficient depends on the concentration/anisotropy in the membrane. A general solution has been given that can be applied to most of the mathematical functions of the parameters mentioned. The concentration distribution and the mass transfer rate will be given in closed mathematical forms. The value of the mass transfer rates could be strongly altered by the varying diffusion- and/or solubility coefficient. The mathematical model and the effect of the varying parameters have been discussed in this paper.