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JOURNAL OF SOLAR ENERGY ENGINEERING-TRANSACTIONS OF THE ASME
Volume 139, Issue 2, Pages -Publisher
ASME
DOI: 10.1115/1.4035163
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- U.S. Department of Energy under the Predictive Science Academic Alliance Program 2 (PSAAP2) at Stanford University
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The working principle of particle-based solar receivers is to utilize the absorptivity of a dispersed particle phase in an otherwise optically transparent carrier fluid. In comparison to their traditional counterparts, which use a solid surface for radiation absorption, particle-based receivers offer a number of opportunities for improved efficiency and heat transfer uniformity. The physical phenomena at the core of such receivers involve coupling between particle transport, fluid turbulence, and radiative heat transfer. Previous analyses of particle-based solar receivers ignored delicate aspects associated with this three-way coupling. Namely, these investigations considered the flow fields only in the mean sense and ignored turbulent fluctuations and the consequent particle preferential concentration. In the present work, we have performed three-dimensional direct numerical simulations of turbulent flows coupled with radiative heating and particle transport over a range of particle Stokes numbers. Our study demonstrates that the particle preferential concentration has strong implications on the heat transfer statistics. We demonstrate that for a typical setting the preferential concentration of particles reduces the effective heat transfer between particles and the gas by as much as 25%. Therefore, we conclude that a regime with Stokes number of order unity is the least preferred for heat transfer to the carrier fluid. We also provide a 1D model to capture the effect of particle spatial distribution in heat transfer.
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