scholarly journals Roles of Flue Gas in Promoting Steam Flow and Heat Transfer in Multithermal Fluid Flooding

2019 ◽  
Vol 2019 ◽  
pp. 1-8
Author(s):  
Zhuangzhuang Wang ◽  
Zhaomin Li

Multithermal fluid technology is becoming an important method in the field of heavy oil development. However, because of insufficient investigation on the heat transfer for the multithermal fluid, some development phenomena and characteristics still cannot be well explained. In order to determine the effect of flue gas on the thermal swept scope, multithermal fluid flooding experiments were carried out through 1D sandpack. The temperatures along the sandpack were measured. On this basis, steam heat transfer simulation experiments were conducted and the heat transfer coefficients were calculated. The mechanism of flue gas on steam heat transfer was analyzed. The results show that at the same heat injection conditions, the thermal swept scope for the multithermal fluid flooding was larger than that for the steam flooding. With the increase of flue gas proportion in the multithermal fluid, the heat transfer coefficient decreased and the condensation pattern was transformed from drop condensation to film condensation gradually. The flue gas can form gas film on the surface of the cold body and inhibit the heat transfer between steam and the cold body. Because of the inhibiting effect of flue gas on steam heat transfer, flue gas can reduce the heat transferred to the rock matrix in flooding and thus promote steam to carry more heat further. Meanwhile, flue gas can accelerate the flow of steam in porous media, which also leads to the expansion of the thermal swept scope for the multithermal fluid flooding.

Author(s):  
Ann-Christin Fleer ◽  
Markus Richter ◽  
Roland Span

AbstractInvestigations of flow boiling in highly viscous fluids show that heat transfer mechanisms in such fluids are different from those in fluids of low viscosity like refrigerants or water. To gain a better understanding, a modified standard apparatus was developed; it was specifically designed for fluids of high viscosity up to 1000 Pa∙s and enables heat transfer measurements with a single horizontal test tube over a wide range of heat fluxes. Here, we present measurements of the heat transfer coefficient at pool boiling conditions in highly viscous binary mixtures of three different polydimethylsiloxanes (PDMS) and n-pentane, which is the volatile component in the mixture. Systematic measurements were carried out to investigate pool boiling in mixtures with a focus on the temperature, the viscosity of the non-volatile component and the fraction of the volatile component on the heat transfer coefficient. Furthermore, copper test tubes with polished and sanded surfaces were used to evaluate the influence of the surface structure on the heat transfer coefficient. The results show that viscosity and composition of the mixture have the strongest effect on the heat transfer coefficient in highly viscous mixtures, whereby the viscosity of the mixture depends on the base viscosity of the used PDMS, on the concentration of n-pentane in the mixture, and on the temperature. For nucleate boiling, the influence of the surface structure of the test tube is less pronounced than observed in boiling experiments with pure fluids of low viscosity, but the relative enhancement of the heat transfer coefficient is still significant. In particular for mixtures with high concentrations of the volatile component and at high pool temperature, heat transfer coefficients increase with heat flux until they reach a maximum. At further increased heat fluxes the heat transfer coefficients decrease again. Observed temperature differences between heating surface and pool are much larger than for boiling fluids with low viscosity. Temperature differences up to 137 K (for a mixture containing 5% n-pentane by mass at a heat flux of 13.6 kW/m2) were measured.


2015 ◽  
Vol 19 (5) ◽  
pp. 1769-1789 ◽  
Author(s):  
Volodymyr Rifert ◽  
Volodymyr Sereda

Survey of the works on condensation inside smooth horizontal tubes published from 1955 to 2013 has been performed. Theoretical and experimental investigations, as well as more than 25 methods and correlations for heat transfer prediction are considered. It is shown that accuracy of this prediction depends on the accuracy of volumetric vapor content and pressure drop at the interphase. The necessity of new studies concerning both local heat transfer coefficients and film condensation along tube perimeter and length under annular, stratified and intermediate regimes of phase flow was substantiated. These characteristics being defined will allow determining more precisely the boundaries of the flow regimes and the methods of heat transfer prediction.


Author(s):  
Nan Jiang ◽  
Terrence W. Simon

The heater (or acceptor) of a Stirling engine, where most of the thermal energy is accepted into the engine by heat transfer, is the hottest part of the engine. Almost as hot is the adjacent expansion space of the engine. In the expansion space, the flow is oscillatory, impinging on a two-dimensional concavely-curved surface. Knowing the heat transfer on the inside surface of the engine head is critical to the engine design for efficiency and reliability. However, the flow in this region is not well understood and support is required to develop the CFD codes needed to design modern Stirling engines of high efficiency and power output. The present project is to experimentally investigate the flow and heat transfer in the heater head region. Flow fields and heat transfer coefficients are measured to characterize the oscillatory flow as well as to supply experimental validation for the CFD Stirling engine design codes. Presented also is a discussion of how these results might be used for heater head and acceptor region design calculations.


1999 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kal R. Sharma

Abstract Experimentally measured values for the minimum fluidization velocities and time averaged local surface heat transfer coefficients are provided for 16 different cases of fluidizing conditions for gas-solid dense fluidized beds. Semi-empirical Correlations for the minimum fluidization velocity and the heat transfer coefficient at minimum fluidization velocities are provided. The implications of the Peclet number dependence in terms of diffusion and convection is discussed.


2018 ◽  
Vol 157 ◽  
pp. 02036
Author(s):  
Richard Pastirčák ◽  
Ján Ščury ◽  
Tomáš Fecura

Estimation of the heat flow at the metal-mold interface is necessary for accurate simulation of the solidification processes. For the numerical simulation, a precise prediction of boundary conditions is required to determine the temperature distribution during solidification, porosity nucleation, microstructure development, and residual stresses. Determination of the heat transfer coefficients at the metal-mold interface is a critical aspect for simulation of the solidification process and the microstructure modeling of the castings. For crystallization under the pressure and for thin-walled castings, HTC evaluation is important due to the very limited freezing time.


1997 ◽  
Vol 119 (2) ◽  
pp. 381-389 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. E. Taslim ◽  
C. M. Wadsworth

Turbine blade cooling, a common practice in modern aircraft engines, is accomplished, among other methods, by passing the cooling air through an often serpentine passage in the core of the blade. Furthermore, to enhance the heat transfer coefficient, these passages are roughened with rib-shaped turbulence promoters (turbulators). Considerable data are available on the heat transfer coefficient on the passage surface between the ribs. However, the heat transfer coefficients on the surface of the ribs themselves have not been investigated to the same extent. In small aircraft engines with small cooling passages and relatively large ribs, the rib surfaces comprise a large portion of the passage heat transfer area. Therefore, an accurate account of the heat transfer coefficient on the rib surfaces is critical in the overall design of the blade cooling system. The objective of this experimental investigation was to conduct a series of 13 tests to measure the rib surface-averaged heat transfer coefficient, hrib, in a square duct roughened with staggered 90 deg ribs. To investigate the effects that blockage ratio, e/Dh and pitch-to-height ratio, S/e, have on hrib and passage friction factor, three rib geometries corresponding to blockage ratios of 0.133, 0.167, and 0.25 were tested for pitch-to-height ratios of 5, 7, 8.5, and 10. Comparisons were made between the rib average heat transfer coefficient and that on the wall surface between two ribs, hfloor, reported previously. Heat transfer coefficients of the upstream-most rib and that of a typical rib located in the middle of the rib-roughened region of the passage wall were also compared. It is concluded that: 1 The rib average heat transfer coefficient is much higher than that for the area between the ribs; 2 similar to the heat transfer coefficient on the surface between the ribs, the average rib heat transfer coefficient increases with the blockage ratio; 3 a pitch-to-height ratios of 8.5 consistently produced the highest rib average heat transfer coefficients amongst all tested; 4 under otherwise identical conditions, ribs in upstream-most position produced lower heat transfer coefficients than the midchannel positions, 5 the upstream-most rib average heat transfer coefficients decreased with the blockage ratio; and 6 thermal performance decreased with increased blockage ratio. While a pitch-to-height ratio of 8.5 and 10 had the highest thermal performance for the smallest rib geometry, thermal performance of high blockage ribs did not change significantly with the pitch-to-height ratio.


1980 ◽  
Vol 102 (3) ◽  
pp. 420-425 ◽  
Author(s):  
P. Razelos ◽  
K. Imre

Optimum dimensions of circular fins of trapezoidal profile with variable thermal conductivity and heat transfer coefficients are obtained. Linear variation of the thermal conductivity is considered of the form k = k0(1 + εT/T0), and the heat transfer coefficient is assumed to vary according to a power law with distance from the bore, expressed as h = K[(r − r0)/(r0 − re)]m. The results for m = 0, 0.8, 2.0, and −0.4 ≤ ε ≤ 0.4, have been expressed by suitable nondimensional parameters which are presented graphically. It is shown that considering the thermal conductivity as constant, the optimum base thickness and volume of the fin are inversely proportional to the thermal conductivity of the material of the fin, while the optimum length and effectiveness are independent of the properties of the material used.


1965 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 153 ◽  
Author(s):  
GI Pearman

An account is given of techniques and methods used in measurement of convective heat transfer from leaves of the succulent Carpobrotus. Heat transfer was studied under still air conditions and in wind (in a specially constructed wind-tunnel) up to velocities of 300 cm sec-1. A correlation was demonstrated between experimentally obtained values of heat transfer coefficients and theoretical values calculated from empirical formulae. At wind velocities of 300 cm sec-1 the heat transfer coefficient for Carpobrotus was increased to seven times its value still air.


Author(s):  
Michael Gritsch ◽  
Stefan Baldauf ◽  
Moritz Martiny ◽  
Achmed Schulz ◽  
Sigmar Wittig

The present paper reports on the use of the superposition approach in high density ratio film cooling flows. It arises from the linearity and homogeneity of the simplified boundary layer differential equations. However, it is widely assumed that the linearity does not hold for variable property flows. Therefore, theoretical considerations and numerical calculations will demonstrate the linearity of the heat transfer coefficient with the dimensionless coolant temperature θ as long as identical flow conditions are applied. This makes it necessary to perform at least two experiments at different θ but with the coolant to main flow temperature ratio kept unchanged. A comprehensive set of experiments is presented to demonstrate the capability of the superposition approach for determining heat transfer coefficients for different film cooling geometries. These comprise coolant injection from two dimensional tangential slots, single holes, and rows of cylindrical holes. Particularly, two dimensional local distributions of the heat transfer coefficient will be addressed.


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