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Ryunosuke MAEKAWA, Yuto NAKAJIMA, Lochan Rajib POUDYAL, Toru SUZUKI, M ...
Article type: Original paper
2019 Volume 36 Issue 4 Pages
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Published: December 31, 2019
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Recently, it is often heard that the quality of fishery produces has been improved by using ice slurry for cooling, but there are few examples of scientific verification on the advantage of ice slurry. In this article, we measured the heat transfer coefficient by using metal balls under the condition that are considered to be used in cooling and thawing of fishery produces. As a result, ice slurry enabled very large heat transfer coefficient for the first 5 seconds both in cooling and thawing, but after 10 seconds it was about the value of ordinary forced convection of the liquid. On the other hand, when the ice slurry was forced to flow, the extremely high heat transfer was maintained even after 10 seconds in cooing, but in thawing condition, there was a little heat transfer enhancement after 10 seconds. Consequently, basic heat transfer characteristics during cooling and thawing by using ice slurry was revealed, including the effect of fluidizing.
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-Effect of the Thickness of Membrane, Location and its Orientation of Pore Processed to a Sheet of Membrane on the Performance of the Device -
Seiji OKAWA, Sho MURATA, Takayuki HACHIYA, Tsutomu HOZUMI
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2019 Volume 36 Issue 4 Pages
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As one of supercooling cancellation devices for refrigerant PCM, authors have proposed a capsule type of the device which have an elasticized membrane with a pore at one side and water is enclosed inside. Water in the capsule solidifies first because the melting point is higher than that of the refrigerant PCM. When a membrane expands by solidification, a pore opens, and the ice in the capsule is exposed to PCM. When PCM is in a supercooling state, the exposure becomes an ice nucleus, and solidification propagates. However, the concentration in the capsule rises when the exposure is too big. In this study, the influence of the difference in thickness of the membrane and the location and the orientation of the pore on the membrane on the performance of suppressing the supercooling of PCM was examined.
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-Adsorption Properties of Ethanol Solution by Silica Gel-
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Article type: Original paper
2019 Volume 36 Issue 4 Pages
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We propose adsorption ice slurry generator to utilize low-temperature waste heat. Ethanol solution is used as a refrigerant of the adsorption cycle, and ice slurry is produced in the evaporator of the cycle. The adsorption ice slurry generator will expand the use of low-temperature waste heat, because we can transport cooling heat to a long distance by transporting ice slurry. In this study, we investigated the adsorption properties of silica gel against ethanol solution. Based on the results, we estimate the theoretical efficiency of the adsorption cycle using ethanol solution as refrigerant. It was concluded that ethanol solution is suitable for the refrigerant of the cycle because the estimated COP and exergy efficiency of the cycle using ethanol solution is higher than that using water or ethanol. It was confirmed that the adsorption cycle using 10 mass% ethanol solution is suitable for ice slurry production, because exergy efficiency is almost same even when the evaporation temperature decreases to freezing temperature of 10 mass% ethanol solution.
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Shigeki HIRANO, Tsuyoshi KAWANAMI
Article type: Original paper
2019 Volume 36 Issue 4 Pages
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Heat supply technologies such as a solar heat utilization or a low exergy waste heat are receiving attention as an alternative heat source to fossil fuels. For the effective utilization of such energy resources, development of a latent heat storage system is expected. The purpose of this study is to represent an unsteady melting phenomenon in a latent heat storage tank and to establish an effective numerical analysis for evaluating the thermal characteristics in the heat storage tank. A numerical analysis was conducted on the effects of the arrangement of phase change materials in the heat storage tank and the flow conditions of the heat exchange medium on the heat transfer behavior. An algorithm based on MPS (Moving Particle Semi-implicit) method, which is a kind of particle method, was adopted for the building the numerical analysis model. As a result of this study, melting analysis model based on the MPS method, consistently calculated the melting behavior in the heat storage tank, and it is also found that the influence of the flow rate condition of the ambient fluid is small on the melting behavior of the phase change material.
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Toshie KOYAMA, Fubito WAJIMA, Takeya YOSHIOKA, Hiroshi NAGAISHI, Takaa ...
Article type: Original paper
2019 Volume 36 Issue 4 Pages
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Published: December 31, 2019
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Dehydrated ice slurry produced from sea water is effective in maintaining freshness of marine products, and are therefore expected to be utilized as cooling media during long-distance transport of marine products. Because the temperature history of dehydrated ice slurry during melting strongly depends on the initial water content, detailed knowledge of the water content of dehydrated ice slurry is required. In this study, ice slurry produced from NaCl aqueous solution was dehydrated by gravity, and the water content in the dehydrated ice slurry was measured. The results showed that the water content decreases with increasing the diameter of ice particles and has a unique distribution in the vertical direction. We compared the present results with existing data of water permeation in snow, and then found that dehydration of ice slurry can be elucidated based on the physical model of water permeation in snow, despite the difference in the diameter of ice particles and type of liquid phase between ice slurry and snow.
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Koji MATSUMOTO, Kohei EHARA, Kazuomi MAEZAWA, Kakeru SATO, Yuri UMEHAR ...
Article type: Original paper
2019 Volume 36 Issue 4 Pages
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It is well known ice adhesion force to a metal surface is so strong. Thus, most of studies have been done for suppression of the ice adhesion force. In this paper, contrary to conventional studies, to effectively use the strong ice adhesion force to the metal surface the authors group noticed “freezing chuck“ for strong fixation of a workpiece to a work table. And to realize more strong ice adhesion force use of an anionic surfactant-pure water mixture was investigated. In this paper, a shearing stress defined by (ice adhesion force)/(ice adhesion area) was used to estimate the ice adhesion force. A voltage was applied to a copper surface consisting of DC condenser, after which shearing stresses were measured, varying magnitudes and polarities of the applied voltage. Simultaneously, adsorbed amounts of surfactant molecules to the Ni surface and surface energies of ice with surfactant molecules were measured, varying applied voltages and those polarities. And from the results of the adsorbed amount and the ice surface energy with surfactant molecules, validity of the measured shearing stresses was verified.
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Hidetoshi OHKUBO, Toshiki HIROTANI, Takayuki MOROKUMA, Haruka AGUI
Article type: Original paper
2019 Volume 36 Issue 4 Pages
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Published: December 31, 2019
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In this study, we investigated the influence of thermal conductance of a boiling surface on the pool boiling heat transfer to saturated liquid nitrogen at atmospheric pressure. A cooled sample was a copper sphere, 25 mm in diameter. The thermal conductance of the copper surface was changed by the ice layer and the frost layer coated on it. The experimental results show that the effects of ice layers on the copper surfaces on cooling curves and boiling heat transfer characteristics are remarkable. When a frost layer is used as a thermal insulation layer on the cooling surface, the heat flux in the transition boiling region increased markedly and both the critical heat flux and heat flux in the nucleate boiling region increased.
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-Construction of acoustic phase diagram-
Hideaki YOSHIOKA, Tomoaki KYODEN, Tadashi HACHIGA
Article type: Original paper
2019 Volume 36 Issue 4 Pages
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Correlation between ultrasonic behavior and solidification process of aqueous solution is studied with the aim to develop an ultrasonic technique for detecting various state quantities in the field of thermal-hydraulics with phase change. First, a simple ultrasonic measurement system was constructed, and then the solidification experiments were conducted by varying temperature and initial concentration of sodium chloride solution from 0 wt.% to almost eutectic composition, 23 wt.%. From the experiment, it was found that sound velocity was changed by ice crystal growth and/or salt-ice eutectic reaction. Next, the variation of sound velocity at each initial concentration was discussed in relation to the solidification process, on a temperature-sound velocity coordinate plane. Summarizing these results, we presented a novel three-dimensional acoustic phase diagram, in which information of sound velocity was added to temperature and composition as intensive variables. Thus sound velocities in each region of a liquid region, a mush region, and a solid region were characterized on the acoustic phase diagram. Finally, it was clarified that, based on the acoustic phase diagram, our noninvasive sound velocity measurement is able to detect various state quantities such as temperature, composition, and ice packing factor.
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Makoto KATO, Takashi MORIMOTO, Hiroyuki KUMANO
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2019 Volume 36 Issue 4 Pages
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When the ice slurry is transported by pipe, blockage in the pipe may occur depending on the flow conditions and the surrounding environment. One of the causes is freezing of ice slurry in the pipe caused by chilled from outside, but the mechanism has not been fully elucidated. In this study, ice slurry generated from ethanol aqueous solution was flowed into a rectangular channel and cooled from upper and lower side of the channel to observe the freezing behavior of ice slurry. IPF, Reynolds number and temperature difference between ice slurry and brine were chosen as the experimental parameters. As a result of comparison with the Stefan solution, which is an exact solution to the freezing problem, the thickness of the frozen layer tends to be slightly higher than the Stefan solution. Furthermore, when ice particles are contained or Reynolds number is low, the growth rate of the frozen layer at upper side of the rectangular channel was found to be slightly faster than other conditions.
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Takashi MORIMOTO, Toshiki IKEDA, Yuto TANAKA, Hiroyuki KUMANO
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2019 Volume 36 Issue 4 Pages
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In this study, flow and heat transfer characteristics of emulsion type thermal storage material which a phase change material is emulsified and dispersed inside a water in a microchannel was investigated experimentally and numerically. It was found that mass fraction and state of dispersoild affected the rheology characteristics of emulsions and they tended to show pseudoplastic fluid behavior. Furthermore, the Nusselt number of emulsions reasonably agreed with that of single phase fluid when its dispersoid keep solid or liquid phase during heating, and was higher than the value when its dispersoid is melting because the apparent specific heat increased due to latent heat absorption of phase change materials. It was expected that an effect of existence of dispersoid on flow and heat transfer of emulsions in the microchannel because the relative size of dispersoid relative to flow path is comparatively large. However, obvious effects of dispersoid on flow and heat transfer of emulsions in the microchannel were not observed.
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-Effect of Flow Pattern and Solid Fraction on Heat Transfer coefficient-
Hiroshi MIZUMOTO, Shunsuke ABE, Hiroyuki INAGAKI, Tatsunori ASAOKA
Article type: Original paper
2019 Volume 36 Issue 4 Pages
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We propose erythritol slurry, which is the mixture of erythritol solution and erythritol crystal, as a slurry heat medium for medium-low temperature (200 °C or less) such as industrial exhaust heat and solar heat. The purpose of this study is to understand the heat transfer characteristics of erythritol slurry. In the experiment, erythritol slurry was flowed through a stainless steel tube heated with a uniform heat flux, and the local heat transfer coefficient was measured with changing the solid fraction and Reynolds number as parameters. The local heat transfer coefficient of a cross section of the tube was investigated. In laminar flow, the local heat transfer coefficient at the side of the tube and that at the bottom of the tube are higher than the theoretical values of single phase flow. In turbulent flow, the difference of heat transfer coefficient between experimental values and theoretical values of single phase flow is small. It means the influence of the solid fraction on the heat transfer coefficient is small in the turbulent flow. From the results, it was confirmed that the influence of the solid fraction and the flow pattern on the local heat transfer coefficient in the laminar flow is large. We suggested that the flow pattern should be considered in design of the system using the erythritol slurry.
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-Influence of Flow Pattern and Solid Fraction on Flow Characteristics-
Kenta INATSU, Shunsuke ABE, Tatsunori ASAOKA
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2019 Volume 36 Issue 4 Pages
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We proposed erythritol slurry, which is mixture of the erythritol solution and erythritol crystal, as a heat medium for the utilization of unused heat at medium/low temperature. The influence of flow pattern and solid fraction on the flow characteristics were investigated experimentally. In the experiment, erythritol slurry was flowed through a horizontal stainless steel tube and the pressure drop was measured. Although a power-law equation was used to describe the flow characteristics of the slurry, the cause of the difference between the pipe friction coefficient and the theoretical value cannot be clarified. Also, a new model, the sedimentary layer of the solid crystals considered, was applied in the laminar flow. As a result, the difference between the pipe friction coefficient and the theoretical value became smaller. It suggested that the influence of the flow pattern on the flow characteristics of the slurry is not negligible, and it was found that the evaluation of the flow characteristics using a model, the sedimentary layer considered, was effective.
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