Abstract
The paper deals with heat transfer during the transportation of the hot air from receiver via an insulated pipe to solar convective furnace for metal processing. In the developed concept of solar convective furnace (SCF) hot air at a temperature of 300–600 °C is required for a duration of about 3–6 h. However, the availability of solar irradiance is 8–10 h per day, whereas, the typical required time for achieving the steady condition is in the order of hours. Thus, prediction of time-dependent air temperature development at the outlet of insulated pipe is required for a given flow condition. Considering these aspects, the developed and validated transient heat transfer analysis tool is used to analyze effect of (a) pipe length and thickness of insulation, (b) mass-flow-rate of air, (c) constant and variable inlet air temperature and (d) preheating of pipe. Following are the broad observations based on the performed analysis: (i) time to reach steady state for the considered insulated pipe and the ratio of the heat loss to input reduces with increasing mass-flow-rate; (ii) increasing insulation thickness beyond critical thickness reduces the heat loss that results in a higher temperature at outlet. However, it increases the required time to reach the steady state condition; (iii) the achieved maximum temperature corresponding to a solar irradiance is forward shifted in time.
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Abbreviations
- A a :
-
Area of aperture (m2)
- C :
-
Concentration factor
- C pf :
-
Specific heat capacity of fluid (J/kg K)
- C ps :
-
Specific heat capacity of pipe/absorber (J/kg K)
- DNI:
-
Direct normal irradiance (W/m2)
- E a :
-
Net energy available at inlet (MJ)
- E ph :
-
Energy required for preheating the pipe (MJ)
- E u :
-
Energy utilized (MJ)
- h f :
-
Heat transfer coefficient for internal heat transfer in fluid (W/m2 K)
- h ex :
-
Natural convective heat transfer coefficient (W/m2 K)
- K i :
-
Thermal conductivity of insulation (W/mK)
- K s :
-
Thermal conductivity of pipe (W/mK)
- L c :
-
Thermal development length (m)
- L s or L :
-
Length of pipe (solid domain) (m)
- \(\dot{m}_{\text{f}}\) :
-
Mass flow rate (kg/s)
- n th :
-
Efficiency of receiver
- N uex,i :
-
Nusselt number for natural convection at top of insulation domain (radial boundary)
- N uex,s :
-
Nusselt number for natural convection at axial boundary of solid domain
- N z :
-
Number of divisions in axial direction of pipe
- P rf :
-
Prandtl number of fluid
- \(\dot{Q}_{\text{a}}\) :
-
Power available at the inlet of pipe (W)
- \(\dot{Q}_{\text{cond}}\) :
-
Power conducted (W)
- \(\dot{Q}_{\text{fts}}\) :
-
Power transferred from fluid to solid (W)
- \(\dot{Q}_{{\text{Nat}.\text{Conv}}}\) :
-
Natural convective power losses from insulation surface (W)
- \(\dot{Q}_{{\text{sti}}}\) :
-
Power transferred to insulation from solid domain (W)
- r :
-
Radial direction of pipe
- Ra :
-
Rayleigh number
- Re :
-
Reynolds number
- r i :
-
Outer radius of insulation (m)
- r s :
-
Inner radius of pipe (m)
- SST:
-
Time to reach steady state (s)
- T :
-
Time axis
- T a :
-
Ambient temperature (K)
- t h :
-
Time (h)
- T i :
-
Temperature of insulation (K)
- T m :
-
Mean temperature of fluid (K)
- T m,in :
-
Mean temp of fluid at inlet of pipe (K)
- T m,out :
-
Mean temp of fluid at outlet of pipe (K)
- T m,out|steady state :
-
Mean temp of fluid at outlet at steady state (K)
- T ph :
-
Preheat temp of pipe (K)
- T s :
-
Temperature of pipe (K)
- t op :
-
Total time of operation of the system (s)
- \({{T_m}_{{i}} ^{n}}\) :
-
Mean temp of fluid at ith node and nth time step (K)
- \({{T_s}_{{i}}^{n}}\) :
-
Temperature of solid domain at ith node and nth time step (K)
- \({{T_{i}}_{i}^{n}}\) :
-
Temperature of insulation at ith node and nth time step (K)
- z :
-
Axial direction of pipe
- \(\alpha_{\text{i}}\) :
-
Thermal diffusivity of fluid domain (m2/s)
- \(\alpha_{\text{s}}\) :
-
Thermal diffusivity of solid domain (m2/s)
- \(\delta_{\text{i}}\) :
-
Thickness of insulation (m)
- \(\delta_{\text{s}}\) :
-
Thickness of pipe (m)
- \(\Delta{{r}}\) :
-
Grid spacing in radial direction (m)
- \(\Delta {{z}}\) :
-
Finite difference element in axial direction (m)
- \(\oslash\) :
-
Porosity of absorber
- \(\rho_{\text{s}}\) :
-
Density of pipe (kg/m3)
- \(\Delta {{z}}\) :
-
Grid spacing in axial direction (m)
- \(\Delta t\) :
-
Time step (s)
- MFR:
-
Mass flow rate
- OVAR:
-
Open volumetric air receiver
- VNS:
-
Von Neumann stability
- Num:
-
Numerical
- POA:
-
Power on aperture (W)
- DNI:
-
Direct normal irradiance (W/m2)
- Exp:
-
Experiment
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Equations (20), (21) and (22) represents the discretized form of the equations in fluid, solid and insulation domains and Eqs. (23) and (24) represents the discretized equations in solid and insulation domain respectively.
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Sachdeva, M., Chandra, L. (2018). Transient Heat Transfer Analysis in Insulated Pipe with Constant and Time-Dependent Heat Flux for Solar Convective Furnace. In: Chandra, L., Dixit, A. (eds) Concentrated Solar Thermal Energy Technologies. Springer Proceedings in Energy. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-4576-9_22
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