جستجوی مقالات مرتبط با کلیدواژه "supercritical fluid" در نشریات گروه "مکانیک"

Supercritical fluids have substituted non-super critical fluids in some areas of industry because of their unique characteristics and have been the subject of numerous experimental, numerical and analytic studies since their discovery. In this study laminar natural convection between a hot vertical tube with constant temperature and supercritical carbon dioxide with uniform temperature at inlet is simulated by utilizing a numerical model. The simulation is a two-dimensional, pseudo-transient numerical model based on finite volume method. The main objective of this study is to investigate and analyze the effect of severe property variations of supercritical carbon dioxide on the flow and temperature field of natural convection that ultimately affect heat transfer rates with respect to non-critical natural convection. Numerical simulations have been carried out for temperature and pressure ranges of 305K to 312K and 7.5MPa to 9MPa respectively. Span and Wanger’s multi-parameter equation of state have been used directly to determine carbon dioxide properties around pseudo critical temperature for the first time. Results indicate an increased rate of total heat transfer up to 160% near pseudo-critical temperature and 118% in other temperatures for supercritical natural convection with respect to ideal gas assumption.

The significance of research on the specifications of the supercritical fluids becomes more evident with respect to the increase of their application in different food, chemical, polymer, oil, and gas industries. One of the major specification, is the coefficient of thermal expansion (β) where the ideal gas model was used in most of the processes in which this component is applied; the weakness of this model is that it is unable to make an accurate prediction of this parameter within the range of critical point. For this reason, in this study to determine the coefficient of thermal expansion, Redlich–Kwong equation of state is used and a new relation as a function of temperature, pressure, and compressibility is obtained. Comparing behavior of the curves obtained from this relation with experimental data, exhibits a favorable consistency. Moreover, natural convection heat transfer of the supercritical fluid in a vertical channel at constant temperature walls conditions were considered numerically. The governing equations were solved using the finite-volume method (FVM) and based on the SIMPLE Algorithm. After validation with the earlier studies. Then, the flow and heat transfer characteristics based on the obtained coefficient of thermal expansion were compared with the ideal gas assumptions. Finally, the trend of change in heat transfer coefficient away from the critical point was studied.