Abstract
Jet impingement cooling of vertical moving plate is widely employed in the energy and metallurgical industries. To improve heat transfer and the cooling of these plates in a vertical channel, an innovative stepwise jet cooling design model was proposed in the present study. To investigate the heat transfer enhancement mechanism of this multiple jet cooling, mixed convection in a three-dimensional model of a soaking zone and a jet impingement cooling tower was simulated using the commercial program ANSYS CFX. Navier–Stokes equations, which were solved using the SIMPLEC algorithm, enclosed by an RNG k-ε two-equation turbulence model were employed to calculate the fluid flow and heat transfer. Based on observations of the airflow velocity vector and temperature distribution, the critical equilibrium state for buoyancy and the inertia force was found to occur at a combined Reynolds number of 1.40 × 107. Based on this double-enhancement effect and the effect of different nozzle heights, a multiple stepped jet impingement cooling design that jet velocity decreased with its height increasing was applied to a vertical alloying furnace. The Nusselt number for stepwise jet cooling in the vertical alloying furnace was 111–118% higher than that for constant jet cooling. Therefore, the stepped jet cooling model offers greater energy conservation than does constant velocity when the total jet flow mass is held constant.
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