Numerical Simulation Research on the Heating Process of Air by Waste Heat

Abstract:

Flue gas of boiler is a kind of great potential waste heat resource. Relatively high temperature of exhaust has caused a vast waste of energy and serious environmental thermal pollutions. To make a full and reasonable use of the heat resource, a simplified single-tube heat exchanger is introduced in this paper. Dry air and wet air with different temperatures transfer heat with flue gas in the same model. And the results show that heat near the inner wall exchanges more violently than any other space in the heater. For dry air, the higher temperature of the air enters into the heater, the lower heat transfer effect of the heater. Heat exchange effect of the wet air with 0.03 mole fraction of water is more higher than that of dry air in this model.

• Periodical: Applied Mechanics and Materials (Volume 694)
• Pages: 260-265
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/AMM.694.260
• Online since: November 2014
• Authors: Zi Fang Wang, Jian Li Liu, Lian Sheng Liu, Ye Bin Yin, Jin Xiang Wu, En Yu Wang, Xiang Gou*
• Keywords: Air Heater, Flue Gas, Numerical Simulation, Temperature, Waste Heat

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