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| Author(s): |
Jose Antonio Rabi
Total Authors: 1
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| Document type: | Doctoral Thesis |
| Press: | Campinas, SP. |
| Institution: | Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP). Faculdade de Engenharia Mecânica |
| Defense date: | 2002-08-26 |
| Examining board members: |
Marcio Luiz de Souza Santos;
Carlos Alberto Carrasco Altemani;
Leonardo Goldstein Junior;
Silvio de Oliveira Junior;
Sergio Mourão Saboya
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| Advisor: | Marcio Luiz de Souza Santos |
| Abstract | |
Over the last 25 years, a comprehensive mathematical model and its corresponding computational program has been continuously improved and tested to simulate steady-state operations of bubbling fluidized-bed equipments. Despite its success, the simulator has employed a simple approach for the radiative heat transfers. When high temperatures are achieved, thermal radiation becomes an important energy transfer mode and the original model could lead to deviations above acceptable levels. The purpose of the present work was to improve the model for the radiative heat transfers between alI particles by applying a Two-Flux Method to a nonhomogeneous polydispersed particulate media in radiative equilibrium. Gases were assumed transparent to thermal radiation. The new set of equations was incorporated to the simulation program, which was tested against real operation of two different fluidized-bed reactors: a coalfed boiler and a wood-fed gasifier. Numerical results from that new version were compared with those from the previous simulator version and also with real operational data. Special attention was paid to the temperature profiles of each solid, to the radiative heat transfer rates between them and to some equipment performance parameters. Improvements related to the incorporation of the Two-Flux Model were assessed and discussed. (AU) | |