scholarly journals Effect of Size on the Convective Heat and Mass Transfer Coefficients during Natural Convection Greenhouse Drying of Khoa-A Heat Desiccated Milk Product

Author(s):  
Mahesh Kumar
2002 ◽  
Vol 124 (3) ◽  
pp. 530-537 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kamel Ghali ◽  
Nesreen Ghaddar ◽  
Byron Jones

The air penetration within a porous clothing system on a moving human being is an important physical process that considerably affects the heat and moisture resistance of the textile material. This effect of the coupled convection heat and mass exchange within the clothing system is experimentally investigated and theoretically modeled to determine the heat and mass transfer coefficients between the air penetrating the void space and the solid fiber as a function of the velocity of penetrating air. Experiments were conducted inside environmentally controlled chambers to measure the transient moisture uptake of untreated cotton fabric samples as well as the outer fabric temperature using an infrared pyrometer. The moisture uptake was conducted at three different volumetric flow rates of 0.0067, 0.018 and 0.045 m3/sec/m2 of fabric area to represent airflow penetrations that could result from slow, medium, and vigorous walking, respectively. The theoretical analysis is based on a two-node adsorption model of the fibrous medium. A set of four coupled differential equations were derived describing time-dependent convective heat and mass transfer between the penetrating air and the solid fiber in terms of relevant unknown transport coefficients. The unknown model parameters were adjusted to fit the experimental data. The outer heat and mass transfer coefficients were found to increase with the air penetration flow rate.


Energies ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 14 (14) ◽  
pp. 4294
Author(s):  
Elisiane S. Lima ◽  
João M. P. Q. Delgado ◽  
Ana S. Guimarães ◽  
Wanderson M. P. B. Lima ◽  
Ivonete B. Santos ◽  
...  

This work aims to study the drying of clay ceramic materials with arbitrary shapes theoretically. Advanced phenomenological mathematical models based on lumped analysis and their exact solutions are presented to predict the heat and mass transfers in the porous material and estimate the transport coefficients. Application has been made in hollow ceramic bricks. Different simulations were carried out to evaluate the effect of drying air conditions (relative humidity and speed) under conditions of forced and natural convection. The transient results of the moisture content and temperature of the brick, and the convective heat and mass transfer coefficients are presented, discussed and compared with experimental data, obtaining a good agreement. It was found that the lower the relative humidity is and the higher the speed of the drying air is, the higher the convective heat and mass transfer coefficients are at the surface of the brick and in the holes, and the faster the moisture removal material and heating is. Based on the predicted results, the best conditions for brick drying were given. The idea is to increase the quality of the brick after the process, to reduce the waste of raw material and energy consumption in the process.


Author(s):  
Xizhen Ma ◽  
Wen Fu ◽  
Haijun Jia ◽  
Peiyue Li ◽  
Jun Li

The non-condensable gas is used to keep the pressure stable in the steam-gas pressurizer. The processes of heat and mass transfer during steam condensation in the presence of non-condensable gas play an important role and the thermal hydraulic characteristics in the pressurizer is particularly complicated due to the non-condensable gas. The effects of non-condensable gas on the process of heat and mass transfer during steam condensation were experimental investigated. A steam condensation experimental system under high pressure and natural convection was built and nitrogen was chosen in the experiments. The steam and nitrogen were considered in thermal equilibrium and shared the same temperature in the vessel under natural convection. In the experiments, the factors, for instance, pressure, mass fraction of nitrogen, subcooling of wall and the distribution of nitrogen in the steam, had been taken into account. The rate of heat transfer of steam condensation on the vertical wall with nitrogen was obtained and the heat transfer coefficients were also calculated. The characteristics curve of heat and mass transfer during steam condensation with non-condensable gas under high pressure were obtained and an empirical correlation was introduced to calculated to heat transfer coefficient of steam condensation with nitrogen which the calculation results showed great agreement with the experimental data.


Author(s):  
Ya-Ping Chen ◽  
Chen-Jie Shi ◽  
Ming-Heng Shi ◽  
Chen-Min Ling

Film-inversion is an effective way recently developed to enhance heat and mass transfer in absorbers. However, only one-side of round or rectangular tube i.e. half of the total heat transfer area is used to form film-inverting configuration in the published literature. The paper presents a double-side film-inverting scheme, which consists of two plate bundles and a set of comb shaped conjunction guiders between them for leading solution film from both-sides of each couple of the upper plate bundle to the opposite sides of the bottom ones. A two-scale crosswise corrugation plate bundle, which has vertical large corrugations and horizontal small ones, is suggested instead of the plane plate bundle. The horizontal small corrugation can make the film turbulent and film distribution uniform before and after inversion with surface tension effect, thus increasing the heat and mass transfer coefficients of the absorption process. A mathematic model for heat and mass transfer in absorption process with aqueous Li-Br solution falling film-inverting on two sequential vertical plane plates was established and solved numerically. The distributions of dimensionless velocity, temperature and concentration of liquid film profile before and after film-inverting were obtained. The influence of the number of inversion on heat and mass transfer characteristics was analyzed. The calculation results show that the heat and mass transfer coefficients of the once-film-inverting scheme have about 58% and 73% increment respectively over these of the none film-inverting scheme.


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