TY - JOUR
T1 - Experimental and numerical investigation of contact heat transfer between a rotating heat pipe and a steel strip
AU - Celik, Metin
AU - Devendran, Kathikeyan
AU - Paulussen, Geert
AU - Pronk, Pepijn
AU - Frinking, Ferry
AU - de Jong, Wiebren
AU - Boersma, Bendiks J.
PY - 2018
Y1 - 2018
N2 - A new concept for energy efficient annealing of steel strip comprises of multiple rotating heat pipes. Each heat pipe extracts heat from the cooling strip which is reused to increase the temperature of the heating strip. In this context, the heat transfer between the steel strip and the rotating heat pipe is investigated. When the strip is transported over the heat pipe, gas entrains in the gap. The gas compresses into a uniform gas layer. The contact heat transfer deteriorates due to this phenomenon. A numerical model to quantify the heat transfer between the surfaces is developed. Since there is no direct way to quantify the heat transfer between two moving surfaces, the problem is divided into a gas entrainment and a heat transfer part. The model is validated with experiments executed on a rotating heat pipe test rig. The validation was made varying the strip thickness, specific tension and strip velocity. The results show a uniform gas layer forming within the first 1° of the 180° wrap angle in all cases. The heat transfer is dominated by gas conduction. Results for the uniform gas layer region yield heat transfer coefficients in the range between 4000 and 20,000 W/m2·K.
AB - A new concept for energy efficient annealing of steel strip comprises of multiple rotating heat pipes. Each heat pipe extracts heat from the cooling strip which is reused to increase the temperature of the heating strip. In this context, the heat transfer between the steel strip and the rotating heat pipe is investigated. When the strip is transported over the heat pipe, gas entrains in the gap. The gas compresses into a uniform gas layer. The contact heat transfer deteriorates due to this phenomenon. A numerical model to quantify the heat transfer between the surfaces is developed. Since there is no direct way to quantify the heat transfer between two moving surfaces, the problem is divided into a gas entrainment and a heat transfer part. The model is validated with experiments executed on a rotating heat pipe test rig. The validation was made varying the strip thickness, specific tension and strip velocity. The results show a uniform gas layer forming within the first 1° of the 180° wrap angle in all cases. The heat transfer is dominated by gas conduction. Results for the uniform gas layer region yield heat transfer coefficients in the range between 4000 and 20,000 W/m2·K.
KW - Contact heat transfer
KW - Experimental validation
KW - Gas entrainment
KW - Numerical model
KW - Rotating heat pipe
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U2 - 10.1016/j.ijheatmasstransfer.2018.02.009
DO - 10.1016/j.ijheatmasstransfer.2018.02.009
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85041505500
SN - 0017-9310
VL - 122
SP - 529
EP - 538
JO - International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer
JF - International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer
ER -