Abstract
A novel gas fluidized-bed heat exchanger with a very small static bed height has been developed for a heat-exchanging system using a low-pressure fan. This fluidized bed is composed of a multislit distributor, a single row of 8 mm diameter tubes, and glass beads 48-195 μm in diameter. The measured performance of heat transfer is excellent and that of fluidization is satisfactory, in spite of the static bed height being as small as 13 mm. In the best case, the test fluidized bed exhibited a heat transfer performance comparable to that of a conventional fluidized bed with a perforated plate distributor and a static bed height of 150 mm, and showed one-fourteenth the pressure loss.
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 315-323 |
Number of pages | 9 |
Journal | Experimental Thermal and Fluid Science |
Volume | 1 |
Issue number | 4 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - 1988 Jan 1 |
Keywords
- convective heat transfer
- fluidized bed
- heat exchanger
- multiphase flow
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Chemical Engineering(all)
- Nuclear Energy and Engineering
- Aerospace Engineering
- Mechanical Engineering
- Fluid Flow and Transfer Processes