Flushing of non-condensable gases by saturated steam

Rajesh Patel, Raivat Patel, Chao Zhu, Chao Hsin Lin

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Abstract

This paper presents a study of flushing non-condensable (NC) gases out of a chamber by a saturated steam flow. During the flushing and mixing process, significant heat transfer occurs among the NC gases, steam and the chamber wall, with a coupled steam condensation. The flushing effectiveness hence is strongly dependent upon the mixing, condensation characteristics, the steam feeding rate as well as the thermal capacity of wall. The objective of this study is to explore modeling approaches on such a process which would be applied to assist the optimization of the process design and operation. An experimental system has been developed to provide a set of data for model validations. A simple mechanistic model based has also been developed to show the " equilibriumbased"flushing characteristics. However, to account for finite rate of heat and mass transfer and non-uniform mixing, a more complicated full-field computational fluid dynamics modeling and simulation must be involved. The typical boundary conditions in most commercial CFD codes (such as FLUENT) cannot be directly applied to the flushing processes due to the coupled surface condensation. Hence, in this paper, we have also proposed the condensation-based boundary conditions for the CFD simulations. Full-field CFD simulations with those boundary conditions are being investigated.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Title of host publicationASME/JSME 2011 8th Thermal Engineering Joint Conference, AJTEC 2011
StatePublished - 2011
EventASME/JSME 2011 8th Thermal Engineering Joint Conference, AJTEC 2011 - Honolulu, HI, United States
Duration: Mar 13 2011Mar 17 2011

Publication series

NameASME/JSME 2011 8th Thermal Engineering Joint Conference, AJTEC 2011

Other

OtherASME/JSME 2011 8th Thermal Engineering Joint Conference, AJTEC 2011
Country/TerritoryUnited States
CityHonolulu, HI
Period3/13/113/17/11

All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes

  • Energy Engineering and Power Technology

Keywords

  • Condensation
  • Flushing
  • Heat transfer
  • Mixing

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