Heat transfer effectiveness

Commercially, stabilization is accomplished by controlled heating in air at temperatures of 200—300°C. A variety of equipment has been proposed for continuous stabilization. One basic approach is to pass a fiber tow through heated chambers for sufficient time to oxidize the fiber. Both Mitsubishi and Toho patents (23,24) describe similar continuous processes wherein the fiber can pass through multiple ovens to increase temperature and reaction rate as the thermal stabiUty of the fiber is increased. Alternatively, patents have described processes where the fiber passes over hot roUs (25) and through fluidized beds (26) to provide more effective heat transfer and control of fiber bundle temperature. 

The half-pipe jacket is used when high jacket pressures are required. The flow pattern of a liquid heat-transfer fluid can be controlled and designed for effective heat transfer. The dimple jacket offers structural advantages and is the most economical for high jacket pressures. The low volumetric capacity produces a fast response to temperature changes. 

The area added by the fin is not as efficient for heat transfer as bare tube surface owing to resistance to conduction through the fin. The effective heat-transfer area is... 

It is discovered that in the cooling tower the water moving downward from the jets changes its direction to upward after drop formation. There is an effective heat transfer process when the drops move upward heat transfers from the outlet air to the drops through convection and condensation. 

Drops collide with the drop separator and drain down to the lower part of the tower. These drops are large, so their total surface area is small and insignificant. The effective heat transfer process takes place when the drops move with the air flow, so this arrangement has to be treated as a parallel flow heat transfer. 

The simplest type of shell-and-tube heat exchanger is shown in Eigure 3-1. The essential parts are a shell (1), equipped with two nozzles and having tube sheets (2) at both ends, which also serve as flanges for the attachment of the two channels or beads ( 3) and their respective channel covers (4). The tubes are expanded into both tube sheets and are equipped w nil transverse baffles (5) on the shell side for support. The calculation of the effective heat transfer surface is based on the distance between the inside faces of the tube sheets instead of the overall tube length. 

To meet the 1993 Energy Standards, the industry undertook, at considerable cost, the optimization of the various refrigeration system components. The most significant improvement was the increase in compressor efficiency, from an EER of about 4 to about 5.5. Other system improvements included more efficient fan motors, more effective heat transfer by the evaporator and the condenser, and less defrost energy. In the early 1980s, both the Whirlpool Corporation and White Consolidate Industries introduced electronic defrost controls. Heretofore, an electric timer initiated the defrost cycle, typically every t A elve hours, whether the evaporator needed it or not. With the electronic control the defrost inteiwal is more a function of frost accumulation than of time, and thus referred to as a variable defrost control or as adaptive defrost. It saves energy by being activated only when needed. 

H = heat transfer coefficient ratio, h /hN h i = effective heat transfer film coefficient, Btu/hr-ff-°F hNu condensing film coefficient by Nusselt equation Btu/hr-ff-°F... 

Figures 10-85, 10-86, and 10-86A and Equation 10-115A represent the effective reduction of the pure component (condensahle) when inert gases are present, resulting in the reduced effective heat transfer for condensing the mixture.

Plates are pressed from stainless steel, titanium, HasteT loy or any material ductile enough to be formed into a pressing. The specious design of the trough pattern strengthens the plates, increases the effective heat transfer area and produces turbulence in the liquid flow between plates. Plates are pressed in materials between 0.5 and... 

Plates are available with effective heat transfer area from 0.03 to 3.5 m and up to 700 can be contained within the frame of the largest plate-type heat exchanger, providing over 2400 m of surface area. Flow ports and associated pipework are sized in proportion to the plate area and control the maximum liquid throughput. 

The cycle time is controlled by the heating and cooling rates, which in turn depend on the following factors the temperature of the heaters and the cooling medium, the initial temperature of the sheet, the effective heat transfer coefficient, the sheet thickness, and thermal properties of the sheet. 

Miscellaneous heating coil problems. These vary from system to system. They are relatively common in HW boilers, where little or no blowdown (BD) is ever provided for BW sludge to accumulate on the external fins of the copper coils, thus preventing effective heat transfer. When coil gaskets at the installation points on the top front of the boiler weep, and where the water treatment product contains a dye, color stains surround the gasket area. 

Dixon, A. G. and Cresswell, D. L., Theoretical prediction of effective heat transfer parameters in packed beds, AIChE /., 25, 663-676 (1979). 

The fluid in streams C, E and F bypasses the tubes, which reduces the effective heat-transfer area. 

In forced-convective boiling the effective heat-transfer coefficient hcb can be considered to be made up of convective and nucleate boiling components h fc and h nb. 

Bond, M. P. (1981) Chem. Engr., London No. 367 (April) 162. Plate heat exchanger for effective heat transfer. 

Although the above idealized case cannot represent nucleate boiling, the highly effective heat transfer mechanism due to evaporation over even a portion of the heat transfer surface at any one time is evident. 

Another parametric effect is the apparent dependence of the heat transfer coefficient on the physical size of the heat transfer surface. Figure 24, from Burki et al. (1993), graphically illustrates this parametric effect by showing that the effective heat transfer coefficient can vary by several hundred percent with different vertical lengths of the heat transfer surface, for circulating fluidized beds of approximately the same particle diameter and suspension density. This size effect significantly contributed to confusion in the technical community since experimental measurements by inves-... 

Steinfeld et al. [133] demonstrated the technical feasibility of solar decomposition of methane using a reactor with a fluidized bed of catalyst particulates. Experimentation was conducted at the Paul Scherrer Institute (PSI, Switzerland) solar furnace delivering up to 15 kW with a peak concentration ratio of 3500 sun. A quartz reactor (diameter 2 cm) with a fluidized bed of Ni (90%)/Al2O3 catalyst and alumina grains was positioned in the focus of the solar furnace. The direct irradiation of the catalyst provided effective heat transfer to the reaction zone. The temperature was maintained below 577°C to prevent rapid deactivation of the catalyst. The outlet gas composition corresponded to 40% conversion of methane to H2 in a single pass. Concentrated solar radiation was used as a source of high-temperature process heat for the production of hydrogen and filamentous... 

Suppose the bottom temperature of the liquid is maintained at 25 °C for a thin pool. Let us consider this case where the bottom of the pool is maintained at 25 °C. For the pool case, the temperature is higher in the liquid methanol as depth increases. This is likely to create a recirculating flow due to buoyancy. This flow was ignored in developing Equation (6.33) only pure conduction was considered. For a finite thickness pool with its back face maintained at a higher temperature than the surface, recirculation is likely. Let us treat this as an effective heat transfer coefficient, between the pool bottom and surface temperatures. For purely convective heating, conservation of energy at the liquid surface is... 

The RC1 reactor system temperature control can be operated in three different modes isothermal (temperature of the reactor contents is constant), isoperibolic (temperature of the jacket is constant), or adiabatic (reactor contents temperature equals the jacket temperature). Critical operational parameters can then be evaluated under conditions comparable to those used in practice on a large scale, and relationships can be made relative to enthalpies of reaction, reaction rate constants, product purity, and physical properties. Such information is meaningful provided effective heat transfer exists. The heat generation rate, qr, resulting from the chemical reactions and/or physical characteristic changes of the reactor contents, is obtained from the transferred and accumulated heats as represented by Equation (3-17) ... 

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