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Numerical analysis of heat transfer and the optimisation of regenerators

Gao, Weimin, Hodgson, Peter D. and Kong, Lingxue 2006, Numerical analysis of heat transfer and the optimisation of regenerators, Numerical heat transfer, part A, vol. 50, no. 1, pp. 63-78.


Title Numerical analysis of heat transfer and the optimisation of regenerators
Author(s) Gao, Weimin
Hodgson, Peter D.
Kong, Lingxue
Journal name Numerical heat transfer, part A
Volume number 50
Issue number 1
Start page 63
End page 78
Publisher Taylor & Francis
Place of publication Philadelphia, Pa.
Publication date 2006
ISSN 1040-7782
1521-0634
Summary To optimize a regenerator’s structure and its operation parameters and, consequently, to increase the efficiency of heat recovery and to save energy, a computational approach is used to study the unsteady three-dimensional flow and heat transfer. The simulation is performed in two steps. In the first step, the gas flow and heat transfer in a typical sphere-bed unit is simulated to deduce a dimensionless equation of heat transfer between gas and sphere. In the second step, a model is developed to simplify the prototype and to simulate the gas flow and heat transfer in the whole regenerator. The heat exchange process in regenerators and the effects of the regenerator’s structure and operation parameters, such as gas mass flux, reversal time, regenerator height, sphere diameter, and thermophysical properties of the spheres, are studied with the model to determine efficiency of heat recovery.
Language eng
Field of Research 091502 Computational Heat Transfer
HERDC Research category C1.1 Refereed article in a scholarly journal
Copyright notice ©2006, Taylor & Francis Group
Persistent URL http://hdl.handle.net/10536/DRO/DU:30026116

Document type: Journal Article
Collection: Institute for Technology Research and Innovation
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