Numerical simulation of radiation heat transfer characteristics in a cylindrical fluidized bed

Abstract

In this paper, a 3D two-phase simulation involving the complex heat transfer characteristics within a vertical cylindrical fluidized bed was conducted numerically. The accuracy of mathematical modeling has been validated by comparing with the experimental results. The discrete ordinate model (DOM) was employed to investigate the radiation heat transfer in a fluidized bed. The user-defined function (UDF) was compiled by considering the effect of the particle flow emissivity on radiation heat transfer, and coupled the two-phase flow field by using the gray and non-gray model respectively. The results show that the non-gray model can better depict the selected absorption of radiation wavelength in two-phase flow heat transfer than gray model. Furthermore, under high heat flux density conditions, the proportion of radiation heat transfer increases gradually with the increase of heat flux, which can reach about 40% of the total heat transfer coefficient. Meanwhile, other factors about radiation heat transfer such as initial solid packing height, inlet gas velocity, and other conditions were studied and consistent with the thermal experimental regularity. The findings demonstrated that the radiation heat transfer and it’s modeling play an important role in two-phase heat transfer of fluidized bed.