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论文类型：期刊论文

发表时间：2020-05-01

发表刊物：INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF HEAT AND MASS TRANSFER

收录刊物：EI、SCIE

卷号：152

ISSN号：0017-9310

关键字：Supercritical nitrogen; Heat transfer; Horizontal; Buoyancy effect; Mechanism analysis

摘要：In this paper, the buoyancy effects on heat transfer performance of cryogenic supercritical fluid in the submerged combustion vaporizer (SCV) are studied experimentally and numerically. Supercritical nitrogen is selected to substitute LNG for the safety reason. A three-dimensional model is established to calculate the flow and heat transfer of supercritical nitrogen, and the maximum relative error between the simulation and experiment is 2.78%. Based on the simulation results, a non-uniform circumferential heat transfer coefficient distribution is found in the pseudo-critical region, and the mechanism of the non-uniformity is analyzed. The reason for the phenomenon that the top and bottom generatrices reach the peak value of the heat transfer coefficient at different positions is further revealed by analyzing the average thermo-physical properties in different regions of the boundary layer. The results showed that the secondary flow caused by buoyancy leads to a non-uniform distribution of the thermal boundary layer thickness on the radial section. Under the influence of buoyancy, the temperature of the buffer layer near the top and bottom generatrices reach the large specific heat region successively, leading the peak position of the heat transfer coefficient of them not appear synchronously. Overall, comparing to the nobuoyancy condition, the whole heat transfer coefficient increased, with the heat transfer enhancement at the bottom and side generatrices but deterioration at the top generatrix. (C) 2020 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.