Thermal radiation generally

Thermal Transducers Infrared radiation generally does not have sufficient energy to produce a measurable current when using a photon transducer. A thermal transducer, therefore, is used for infrared spectroscopy. The absorption of infrared photons by a thermal transducer increases its temperature, changing one or more of its characteristic properties. The pneumatic transducer, for example. 

In general, when a flammable vapor cloud is ignited, it will start off as only a Are. Depending on the release conditions at time of ignition, there will be a pool fire, a flash fire, a jet fire, or a fireball. Released heat is transmitted to the surroundings by convection and thermal radiation. For large fires, thermal radiation is the main hazard it can cause severe bums to people, and also cause secondary fires. 

Thermal radiation is electromagnetic radiation covering wavelengths from 2 to 16 p,m (infrared). It is the net result of radiation emitted by radiating substances such as HjO, CO2, and soot (often dominant in fireballs and pool fires), absorption by these substances, and scatter. This section presents general methods to describe... 

Eisenberg et al. (1975) developed estimates of fatalities due to thermal radiation damage using data and correlations from nuclear weapons testing. The probability of fatality was found to be generally proportional to the product where t is the radiation duration and 7 is the radiation intensity. Table 6.7 shows the data used to develop estimates of fatalities from thermal radiation data. 

We still need to consider the coherence properties of astronomical sources. The vast majority of sources in the optical spectral regime are thermal radiators. Here, the emission processes are uncorrelated at the atomic level, and the source can be assumed incoherent, i. e., J12 = A /tt T(ri) (r2 — ri), where ()(r) denotes the Dirac distribution. In short, the general source can be decomposed into a set of incoherent point sources, each of which produces a fringe pattern in the Young s interferometer, weighted by its intensity, and shifted to a position according to its position in the sky. Since the sources are incoherent. 

Unlike ionic polymerizations, radical chain polymerizations have so far been found to occur only with unsaturated compounds. In some cases they can be induced purely thermally, or by means of light or high-energy radiation generally, however, radical initiators such as peroxo compounds, azo compounds, and redox systems are used. 

This chapter describes the fundamental principles of heat and mass transfer in gas-solid flows. For most gas-solid flow situations, the temperature inside the solid particle can be approximated to be uniform. The theoretical basis and relevant restrictions of this approximation are briefly presented. The conductive heat transfer due to an elastic collision is introduced. A simple convective heat transfer model, based on the pseudocontinuum assumption for the gas-solid mixture, as well as the limitations of the model applications are discussed. The chapter also describes heat transfer due to radiation of the particulate phase. Specifically, thermal radiation from a single particle, radiation from a particle cloud with multiple scattering effects, and the basic governing equation for general multiparticle radiations are discussed. The discussion of gas phase radiation is, however, excluded because of its complexity, as it is affected by the type of gas components, concentrations, and gas temperatures. Interested readers may refer to Ozisik (1973) for the absorption (or emission) of radiation by gases. The last part of this chapter presents the fundamental principles of mass transfer in gas-solid flows. 

For the more general case of a body which reflects and transmits part of the incident radiation, so that it has absorptivity a(fouS) < 1, Kirchoff found (even before Planck) that the intensity of thermal radiation is proportional to the absorptivity of the body, i.e.,... 

General References Baukal, C. E., ed., The John Zink Combustion Handbook, CRC Press, Boca Raton, Fla., 2001. Blokh, A. G., Heat Transfer in Steam Boiler Furnaces, 3d ed., Taylor Francis, New York, 1987. Brewster, M. Quinn, Thermal Radiation Heat Transfer and Properties, Wiley, New York, 1992. Goody, R. M., and Y. L. Yung, Atmospheric Radiation—Theoretical Basis, 2d ed., Oxford University Press, 1995. Hottel, H. C., and A. F. Sarofim, Radiative Transfer, McGraw-Hill, New York, 1967. Modest, Michael F., Radiative Heat Transfer, 2d ed., Academic Press, New York, 2003. Noble, James J., The Zone... 

Besides the absorption of the various components of solar irradiation, additional infrared (IR), or thermal, radiation is also absorbed by a leaf (see Eq. 7.2 and Fig. 7-1). Any object with a temperature above 0 K ( absolute zero ) emits such thermal radiation, including a leaf s surroundings as well as the sky (see Fig. 6-11). The peak in the spectral distribution of thermal radiation can be described by Wien s displacement law, which states that the wavelength for maximum emission of energy, A,max, times the surface temperature of the emitting body, T, equals 2.90 x 106 nm K (Eq. 4.4b). Because the temperature of the surroundings is generally near 290 K, A,max for radiation from them is close to... 

The radiative heat-flux is generally treated separately from the other heat flux contributions because these physical phenomena are quite different in nature and involve unacquainted mathematics. Besides, the radiative contributions in the bulk of the fluid are limited because this flux is merely a surface phenomenon. Nevertheless, the radiative losses from solid surfaces are often significant in combustion and in particular chemical reactor processes. A brief introduction to the theory of thermal radiation is presented in sect 5.3.6. 

In summary, the heat transport by conduction is generally important in reaction engineering applications. The thermal radiation flux is important in particular cases. The multi-component mixture specific contributions to the total energy flux are usually negligible. 

Although the output of primer is known to consist of hot particles, a pressure pulse (in some cases a shock wave), and thermal radiation, no general quantitative requirement for initiation of lead azide is known to designers. Failures occur in igniting the primer, but once the primer bums, it always ignites the azide. Primer mixtures are complex, empirically determined compositions for which no general quantitative relationships are known. This situation makes it difficult to optimize them for a particular requirement, or to determine the cause of failures, except by trial and error. 

General. The principal physical effects of nuclear weapons are blast, thermal radiation (heat), and nuclear radiation. These effects are dependent upon the yield (or size) of the weapon expressed in kilotons (KT), physical design of the weapon (such as conventional and enhanced), and upon the method of employment. 

Because the source of thermal radiation energy is generally nonpolarized (gas or solid surface) and because the waves undergo substantial reflections in the interstices of the matrix, the thermal radiation is conceived as being nonpolarized. 

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