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Experimental and Numerical Investigations on the Fluidized Heat Absorption inside Quartz Glass and Metal Tubes

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  • Shengchun Zhang

    (Key Laboratory of Solar Thermal Energy and Photovoltaic System, Chinese Academy of Sciences, No.6 Beiertiao, Zhongguancun, Haidian District, Beijing 100190, China
    Institute of Electrical Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences, No.6 Beiertiao, Zhongguancun, Haidian District, Beijing 100190, China
    University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, No.6 Beiertiao, Zhongguancun, Haidian District, Beijing 100190, China
    Beijing Engineering Research Center of Solar Thermal Power, No.6 Beiertiao, Zhongguancun, Haidian District, Beijing 100190, China)

  • Zhifeng Wang

    (Key Laboratory of Solar Thermal Energy and Photovoltaic System, Chinese Academy of Sciences, No.6 Beiertiao, Zhongguancun, Haidian District, Beijing 100190, China
    Institute of Electrical Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences, No.6 Beiertiao, Zhongguancun, Haidian District, Beijing 100190, China
    University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, No.6 Beiertiao, Zhongguancun, Haidian District, Beijing 100190, China
    Beijing Engineering Research Center of Solar Thermal Power, No.6 Beiertiao, Zhongguancun, Haidian District, Beijing 100190, China)

Abstract

Air as a heat transfer fluid has been widely studied in concentrated solar-power generations, but the solar energy absorbed by air inside transparent and opaque tubes has not been comparatively investigated. The heat transfer was studied experimentally and numerically for a fluidized granular bed air receiver with a non-uniform energy flux and the fluidization occurs inside cylindrical metal and quartz glass tubes. The experiments were conducted in a solar simulator with 19 xenon short-arc lamps and showed that the thermal efficiencies in the quartz tube are higher than those in the metal tube. A numerical model was established to study the fluidized heat transport inside the quartz tube, which includes effective thermal conductivities for the conduction, the Syamlal–O’Brien drag model to describe the pressure drop, a modified P-1 model for the radiation, and a two-fluid model (TFM) for gas–solid two-phase flow. The local thermal non-equilibrium model is used to relate the air temperatures to particle temperatures. Comparisons with experimental data show that this model can be used to predict the heat transport inside the quartz glass tube. The maximum relative error was 7.7% when the current is 100 A and the air mass flow rate is 0.53 g/s.

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  • Shengchun Zhang & Zhifeng Wang, 2019. "Experimental and Numerical Investigations on the Fluidized Heat Absorption inside Quartz Glass and Metal Tubes," Energies, MDPI, vol. 12(5), pages 1-21, February.
    • Handle: RePEc:gam:jeners:v:12:y:2019:i:5:p:806-:d:209829
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