Research on Cooling Mechanism of the Cement Clinker Macroporous Porous Medium

For the cement clinker, a macroporous unconsolidated porous medium, seepage heat transfer theory can more accurately reveal its internal problems. Because of the macroporous characteristics of the cement clinker accumulation body, the changes in the physical properties of the surrounding air, such as viscosity, density, and so on must be taken into consideration in the cooling process of the cement clinker. This article introduces a real gas state equation into the unsteady state seepage equation, and improves the universal local thermal non‐equilibrium energy equation, and finally builds a seepage heat exchanger model of the cement clinker accumulation body macroporous porous medium. Using the COTDMA algorithm, this article obtains the unsteady state change progress of the air temperature and the clinker, and the influence of the porosity size on the cooling process, providing a theoretical reference for engineering applications. © 2013 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Heat Trans Asian Res 43(2): 113‐123, 2014; Published online 01 July 2013 in Wiley Online Library ( wileyonlinelibrary.com/journal/htj ). DOI 10.1002/htj.21066