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Turbulent cylinder-stirred flow heat and momentum transfer research in batch operated single-phase square reactor

Journal

INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF THERMAL SCIENCES
Volume 172, Issue -, Pages -

Publisher

ELSEVIER FRANCE-EDITIONS SCIENTIFIQUES MEDICALES ELSEVIER
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijthermalsci.2021.107325

Keywords

Rotating cylinder stirred flow; Heat and fluid flow; Flow in square reactor; Turbulent heat diffusivity; Single-phase thermal flow

Funding

  1. National Council for Science and Technology (CONACyT) [CVU-7720]
  2. Australian Research Council
  3. LIEF grants

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The study investigated heat transfer and momentum transfer due to water flow in a cylinder-stirred reactor of square cross section, revealing a fluid motion resembling Taylor-Couette vortex under different Reynolds numbers. The results suggest enhanced mixing performance in this reactor compared to other types of reactors.
Heat transfer and momentum transfer due to water flow in a cylinder-stirred reactor of square cross section were investigated. Important industrial processes like mixing depend on combined effects of heat transfer and fluid flow which can be understood by analyzing the turbulence structure. A reactor of aspect ratio eta = 0.21 (diameter of cylinder to tank side wall) was considered. It uses a small-diameter cylinder to stir the water in batch condition with rotating Reynolds number in a range 1.68 x 10(4) < Re < 10.1 x 10(4). The cylinder released a constant heat flux rate of 158 W/m(2) through its surface. The steady state mean flow was numerically simulated using two models for turbulence, isothermally with a k-epsilon and thermally with the RSM model. The results revealed a fluid motion like Taylor-Couette vortex which was validated with PIV streamlines for Re = 6.1 x 10(4) and 10.1 x 10(4). Turbulent angular momentum and shear rate revealed differences for the corner direction as the Re number increased compared with the wall direction. Temperature fluctuations and thermal gradient in the gap allowed to analyze the turbulent heat diffusivity coefficient and the ratio to predicted diffusivity for momentum. The results revealed that heat and momentum diffusivity increase for higher Re number and show that heat diffusivity is faster than momentum in the gap. The main frequencies of fluid motion showed large-scale structures and secondary cells of fluid motion. The averaged heat transfer as a function of Re number indicate that this reactor is an enhanced mean for mixing process compared to concentric cylinders reactors.

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