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- Title
Effects of Fin Spacing and Gas Radiation on Heat Transfer in Utility Boiler Economizers.
- Authors
HAMZEHPOUR, Azad; AGHANAJAFI, Cyrus; SHOKOUHMAND, Hossein; NAJAFI, Mohammad
- Abstract
The aim of this paper is to estimate fin spacing and gas radiation effects on heat transfer in utility boiler economizers to achieve the highest feed water temperature, and the biggest amount of heat transferred from flue gases to economizer tubes. This study is carried out for five different cases including a bare tube economizer and four finned-tube economizers with different fin spacing values. A finite volume method is employed to discretize and solve the governing equations for all cases in 3D. As a result, for verification purpose, the present numerical result is compared to the experimental outputs and it shows that the average Nusselt number difference is 15%. The finnedtube economizer with fin spacing value of 21mm absorbs the biggest amount of heat, and it has the highest outlet feed water temperature; therefore, it has the best thermal performance among the other cases. It is also concluded that radiation heat transfer mechanism has a minor effect on heat exchange in utility boiler economizers.
- Subjects
HEAT radiation &; absorption; HEAT transfer; ASTROPHYSICAL radiation; TUBES; FINITE volume method; NUSSELT number; SUPERHEATERS
- Publication
Technical Gazette / Tehnički Vjesnik, 2019, Vol 26, Issue 6, p1764
- ISSN
1330-3651
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.17559/TV-20170422140007