Transient natural convection heat transfer of liquid D-mannitol on a horizontal cylinder

Makoto Shibahara, Qiusheng Liu and Katsuya Fukuda

Renewable Energy, 2016, vol. 99, issue C, 971-977

Abstract: Transient and steady state natural convection heat transfer for D-mannitol on a horizontal cylinder was investigated experimentally at various liquid temperatures and heat input conditions. To clarify the natural convection phenomena of D-mannitol, transient and steady heat transfer coefficients were measured under various liquid temperatures of D-mannitol and periods of heat generation rates from a horizontal platinum cylinder. The platinum cylinder with a diameter of 1 mm and a length of 43.5 mm was used as the test heater in this experiment. Experimental results indicated that the steady heat transfer coefficient of D-mannitol was affected by the liquid temperature. As the liquid temperature increased, it was understood that the effect of liquid temperature weakened. When the period of the heat generation rate was changed, the heat transfer process was divided into natural convection heat transfer and conductive heat transfer. It was considered that the conductive heat transfer was more dominant as the period of the heat generation rate decreased. The empirical correlations of steady and transient heat transfer coefficients for D-mannitol were obtained.

Keywords: Phase change material; Natural convection; Transient heat transfer; D-mannitol (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2016
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DOI: 10.1016/j.renene.2016.07.076

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