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Front. Energy Res., 11 April 2022
Sec. Advanced Clean Fuel Technologies
This article is part of the Research Topic Cleaner Treatment Technologies and Productions in The Energy Industry View all 24 articles

Coupled Heat and Flow Analysis Inside a Diversion-Type Gas Heater With Vertical Guide Plate Structure

Yun Guo
Yun Guo1*Xuning ZhangXuning Zhang1Zhongwei ZhouZhongwei Zhou2
  • 1School of Mechanical and Automotive Engineering, Shanghai University of Engineering Science, Shanghai, China
  • 2Shanghai Petrochemical Co., Ltd, Shanghai, China

In the natural gas heating process, the cylinder-type heater using water as an intermediate heating medium is the most extensively used. The heat exchange rate between the heating medium water and the fire and gas tubes in the great-capacity cylinder appears to be the most important element affecting a gas heater’s thermal efficiency. The water heat flow field within a new diversion-type gas heater with vertical guide plate design is described in this paper. In contrast to prior research that concentrated on natural convection heat transfer in medium water, the radiation impact is included. The discrete-ordinate model was utilized to build a 2-D combined natural convection and participating medium radiation heat transfer model, which was solved using the finite volume technique with unstructured body-fitted grids. First, experimental data were used to validate the numerical model. The coupled heat flow fields with vertical guide plates of various heights were then analyzed. The numerical findings reveal that utilizing a vertical guide plate structure, the proportion of radiation heat transfer in the total heat transfer rate reaches 25.1%, indicating that water radiation cannot be ignored. The vertical guide plate structure might help to create a well-organized flow pattern in the cylinder, which would improve natural convection heat transfer while having no influence on water radiation. Installing a vertical guide plate with a height of 550 mm and a thickness of 5 mm can lower the overall heat transfer rate in the convective tube bundle by 2.04%. In China, this technique has been given a patent.

Introduction

The use of natural gas necessitates the use of a gas heater, as heating is required in the natural gas usage process (Guo Y. and Guo Z., 2016). Because the process in gas-fired generating units needs high-temperature flue gas, the natural gas utilized in power plants must undergo heat treatment. During the gasification process, liquefied natural gas must also be heated (Yuan et al., 2001). In the engineering process, the cylindrical heater with intermediate heating medium is now commonly utilized as a gas heater (Al-Sammerrai, 1985; Guo et al., 2009; Su, 2013; Setoodeh et al., 2016).

Figure 1 depicts the structure of a general heater. The flame and smoke from fuel combustion fill the fire tube and flue tube bundles in the cylindrical heater; the convective tube bundle is filled with natural gas to be heated; and the intermediate heating medium fills the inner space of the entire cylinder except the fire tube, flue tube bundle, and convective tube bundle, transferring the heat created in the fire tube and flue tube bundle to reach completion. The most common intermediate heating medium is water (Li and Wang, 2019). The typical heat exchange surface configuration of this gas heater has the following consequences: firstly, a high-temperature up-flow medium forms along the wall of the fire tube and flue tube bundle. Meanwhile, a low-temperature downflow medium is developed along the convection tube bundle’s wall. These two mediums collide, resulting in a disordered flow field organization in the cylinder. Secondly, the small temperature difference between the upper and lower flow fields in the large cylinder causes natural convection to be weak and heat transfer efficiency to be low. Lastly, the entire flow field, including the bottom of the large cylinder, has many dead angles (Li and Zhang, 2007; Sun et al., 2011; Guo, 2012).

FIGURE 1
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FIGURE 1. Sketch of a gas heater.

Previous research (Guo Y. and Guo Z. X., 2016; Wang, 2017) solely examined the natural convection heat transfer within the cylinder, but the influence of radiation was largely ignored. When radiation and convection effects are of similar importance, a separate calculation of these and superposition without considering their interaction leads to significant errors (Atashafrooz et al., 2015). To have more accurate and reliable results, the flowing fluid must be considered as a radiating medium (Atashafrooz and GandjalikhanNassab, 2013). Because the operating temperature of a water cylinder is usually above 350 K, the radiation between the water, the cylinder, and the tubes must be considered. As a result, water cannot be described as a non-participating medium. Participating medium radiation has become a research hotspot in recent years. However, the majority of research is concentrated on flue gas, with only a few studies focusing on alternative mediums such as water (Smith et al., 1982; Razzaque et al., 1984; Sun et al., 2016; Gao et al., 2019). This research analyzes the coupled heat and flow of natural convection as well as radiation in the cylinder to better understand the heat transfer mode within the gas heater.

Adding metallic plates to enhance convective heat transmission was a frequent method (Guo, 1999; Zhukova and Isaev, 2008; Guo et al., 2011; Sun et al., 2016; Gao et al., 2019). We suggest using a vertical guide plate structure to improve coupled heat transport within a gas heating cylinder.

Mathematical Model

The two-dimensional circular section in the center of a heating cylinder is used as the numerical model in this paper. The configuration information is provided where the heater’s dimensions are given: D1 measures 1,300 mm, D2 measures 325 mm, b1 measures 540 mm, and b2 measures 510 mm. The flue tubes have a diameter of 42 mm and a spacing of 68 mm between adjacent tubes. The convective tubes have a diameter of 38 mm, b3 is 90 mm, b4 is 65 mm, and the angle ϕ is 60°. As illustrated in Figure 2A, there are nine measuring points designated from 0 to eight along the circular section that are used to determine the temperature distribution of the intermediate heating medium in the cylinder. The central temperature of the cylinder is measured at measuring point 0, which is located in the middle of the circular section.

FIGURE 2
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FIGURE 2. (A) Cross-section of a gas heater simulated using a numerical model. (B) A zoom-in of the convective tube bundle.

Measuring point 1 is situated in the third pass area of the convective tube bundle, which is on the left side of the cylinder. Measuring point 2 is on the right side of the cylinder, in the second pass region of the convective tube bundle. The third measuring point is located in the fourth tube pass region on the cylinder’s left side. Point 4 is located on the first tube pass region on the right side of the cylinder. Measuring point 5 is placed in the upper part of the flue tube, while measuring point 6 is situated in the upper part of the fire tube. The lowest half of the flue tube is where measuring point 7 is located, and the bottom of the cylinder is where measuring point 8 is located. Carbon steel is used for the cylinder and all tubes. Interested readers might refer to Guo et al. (Cimina et al., 2015) for further information on the experimental system.

Based on the Boussinesq assumption under steady laminar flow conditions (the maximum Rayleigh number in the present study is about 2.02 × 109; thus, a laminar flow model is considered), the two-dimensional governing equations for the steady-state coupled heat transfer of convection and radiation are as follows:Continuity equation:

ux+vy=0(1)

Momentum equations:

ρ(uux+vuy)=px+μ(2ux2+2uy2)(2)
ρ(uvx+vvy)=py+μ(2vx2+2vy2)+ρgβ(TT)(3)

Energy equation:

ρcp(uTx+vTy)=λ(2Tx2+2Ty2)Qs(4)

Respectively, u,v, the velocity components on x,y directions;  ρ, the medium density; μ, the dynamic viscosity; p, the pressure; β, the volume expansion coefficient; T, the temperature; T, the reference temperature; λ, the thermal conductivity; Cp, the specific heat; Qs, and the radiative heat loss, which is written as

Qs=ka[4σT404πIdΩ](5)

where ka denotes the medium’s absorption coefficient, σ is the Stefan–Boltzmann constant, and I is the radiation intensity, which is calculated by solving the radiation transfer equation in water:

μmImx+ηmImy=kaIm+n2kaIb        (m=1,2,,M)(6)

where Im denotes the radiation intensity in the m direction; Ib represents the blackbody radiation intensity; μm, ηm are direction cosine values in the direction of m; and M is the discrete number.

The radiation boundary conditions for the opaque and diffuse wall surfaces are as follows:

Iωm=n2εωI+1εωπnωsm<0Iωm|nωsm|ωm (7)

εω is the emissivity of the wall; nω is the normal vector outside the wall; sm is the unit vector in the direction  m; and ωm is the solid angle weight in the m′ direction.

The following are the boundary conditions: the adiabatic boundary is the cylinder wall, with the average temperature of the fire tube wall set to 368 K, the average temperature of the flue tube bundle wall set to 363 K, and the convective tube bundle boundary condition expressed as follows:

 λTwn=h(TwTg)(8)

where n denotes the normal direction of the wall, Tw represents the wall temperature, and Tg is the temperature of the heated gas. The average temperature of the heated gas in the first and second tube passes is 285 K, and the heated gas’s average temperature in the third and fourth tube passes is 310 K  h, the heat transfer coefficient is computed by

h=Nuλgd(9)

The Nusselt number (Nu) is determined using the following equation: the gas inside the convective tube bundle has a thermal conductivity of λg; the diameter of the convective tubes is d; and the gas flow inside the tube is turbulent.

Nu=0.023Re0.8Pr0.4(10)

The Reynolds number for the gas flow within the convective tubes is Re, and the Prandtl number for the gas flow is Pr.

Fluent 17 was used for numerical simulation in this work, while Gambit software was employed to create hybrid unstructured grids. The convection and radiation-coupled heat transfer in the gas heater are solved using the finite volume approach and discrete ordinate radiation model in Fluent, which is consistent with literatures (Wu et al., 2019), (Aghanajafi and Abjadpour, 2016). Under 350 K, water has an emissivity of 0.922 and an absorption coefficient of 153,679 m−1. The walls of the tubes are assumed to have constant steel characteristics with an emissivity of 0.8, and the thickness of the walls is not taken into account in the simulation.

In the area of the boundary surface, such as around the heating and cooling surfaces, where substantial velocity and temperature gradients exist, mesh refinement is required (Kim and Baek, 1997). Figure 3 depicts a typical grid system as well as a portion of the unstructured grid utilized in computation.

FIGURE 3
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FIGURE 3. A typical grid system.

The grid independency was assessed using five different grid levels, including 136, 232, 423, 875, and 1,170,000 cells: the estimated total heat transfer rate in the convective tube bundle (i.e., the heat utilized to heat up gas inside the convective tubes) is compared to the cylinder’s central temperature in the case without the guide plate in Figure 4. With a finer grid system, the overall heat transfer rate and central temperature converge as predicted. The cumulative heat transfer rate inaccuracy between the finest grid with 1,170,000 cells and the grid with 423,000 cells is less than 0.6%, and the temperature at the cylinder center is less than 0.12%. It can be considered that this and a larger number of grids no longer affect the calculation results; considering the limited resources of the computer, the grid level of 423,000 cells may be employed to conduct research. The same grid-level setting procedure was adopted for all subsequent simulations.

FIGURE 4
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FIGURE 4. Grid independence test of medium water.

Results and Discussion

The experiment was carried out under the boundary conditions specified in the previous article, and the data were read after the measured values of nine points were stable. The temperatures simulated are compared to the experimental results at the nine points highlighted in Figure 2A for the standard cylinder without the use of a guide plate before analyzing the improved heat transfer impact of the vertical guide plate. Figure 5 depicts the contrast. The predicted temperatures agree with the experimental results, indicating that the model and boundary conditions are appropriately adjusted. Due to the neglection of the axial flow and heat dissipation through the cylinder wall in the simulation, the simulated temperatures are generally 1°C∼2°C greater than the corresponding temperatures experimentally measured.

FIGURE 5
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FIGURE 5. Comparison of the simulation and measurement of temperatures at nine locations.

In Figure 5, there is a clear thermal stratification at different heights of cylinder. The temperature is higher at measuring points 5–7 near the fire tube and flue tube bundle. The highest temperature appears at the measuring point 6 nearest to the fire tube. The temperature differences among the measuring points 1–4 at a different convective tube pass are small. The temperature of measuring point 8 at the bottom of the cylinder is the lowest. Obviously, the driving force of the flow field is weak in this traditional cylinder arrangement. So, it took about 4 h for the test to reach a thermal equilibrium condition in the experiment. The start-up of the gas heater was very slow. This indicates the necessity to enhance the efficiency inside the cylinder with modified structures.

A simple and effective heat-transfer improvement option is to install vertical guide plates along the cylinder’s axial path. Subsequently, fluid flow and heat transfer using vertical guide plates of various heights are simulated. The vertical plates are 5 mm thick carbon steel plates. The heights of four plates are compared (350, 450, 550, and 650 mm). As a heating medium, still water is employed.

The temperature and flow fields of the gas heater with a 350 mm vertical guide plate positioned at the upper part are shown in Figures 6A,B. High-temperature zones emerge on the top half of the flue tube bundle and upper left side of the fire tube, as shown in Figure 6A. The water near the flue tube bundle generates an ascending flow that shifts to the left and right; the water near the third and fourth convective tube bundles forms a descending flow, as demonstrated in Figure 6B. The temperature variations among the multireturn of convective tube bundles will cause these two flows to collide and be impacted.

FIGURE 6
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FIGURE 6. A vertical guide plate of 350 mm temperature and flow fields. (A) Isothermal contour (K). (B) Flow vectogram (m/s).

The temperature and flow fields of 450 mm with a vertical guide plate are shown in Figures 7A,B. High-temperature zones arise on the upper part of the flue tube bundle and the upper left side of the fire tube, which can be seen in Figure 7A. Those affections between the first and fourth returns of the convective tube bundle may be observed in Figure 7B.

FIGURE 7
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FIGURE 7. 450 mm vertical guide plate temperature and flow fields. (A) Isothermal contour (K). (B) Flow vectogram (m/s).

Figures 8A,B depict the temperature and flow fields of a 550 mm vertical guide plate. High-temperature zones can be seen on the top of the fire tube and flue tube bundle in Figure 8A. Under the diversion of the vertical plate, two flow fields from the center to two sides are generated on the left and right sides of the circular cross-section in the cylinder independently, thus eliminating the collision phenomena.

FIGURE 8
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FIGURE 8. 550 mm vertical guide plate temperature and flow fields. (A) Isothermal contour (K). (B) Flow vectogram.

The temperature and flow fields of a 650 mm vertical guide plate are shown in Figures 9A,B. High-temperature zones can be seen on the top-right side of the flue tube bundle and fire tube in Figure 9A. Although two flow fields are generated on both the left and right sides of the circular section in Figure 9B, due to the conflict of opposing water flows, a number of swirl zones are formed, which are not ideal for convective heat transfer.

FIGURE 9
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FIGURE 9. 650 mm vertical guide plate temperature and flow fields. (A) Isothermal contour (K). (B) Flow vectogram (m/s).

Figure 10 shows the impact of the vertical guide plate on total heat transfer rates in the convective tube bundle and temperature at the measuring points around the convective tube bundle. Water temperatures surrounding the convective tube bundle without the use of a guide plate are much greater than in circumstances when vertical guide plates are employed. As a result, the construction of the gas heater must be optimized. Due to the varied heights of vertical guide plates, there were differences in the temperature distribution around the multireturn passes of the convective tube bundle. Installing vertical guide plates can lower the overall heat transfer rate of the convective tube bundle by 1.49%–2.04% when heating the gas to the desired temperature. The vertical guide plate with a height of 550 mm has the lowest total heat transfer rate in the convective tube bundle.

FIGURE 10
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FIGURE 10. The impact of vertical guide plates on total heat transmission and average temperature at the convective tube bundle.

The natural convection heat transfer rates and radiation heat transfer rates for various plate heights are shown in Figure 11. The effect of installing vertical plates on the participating medium radiation is less due to the small temperature difference among the multireturn of the convective tube bundle, but the proportion of radiation heat transfer in the total heat transfer rate still reaches 25.1% by using the vertical guide plate structure, indicating that the part of water radiation is not negligible.

FIGURE 11
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FIGURE 11. Comparison of the rate of natural convection heat transfer and the rate of radiation heat transfer of vertical guide plates with various heights.

Conclusion

The simulated results in this study demonstrated the feasibility and advantages of a heat transfer structure within a gas heater by using vertical guide plates installed along the axial direction of the large cylinder to improve the overall coupled heat transfer efficiency, overcoming the weakness that an effective hot circulating flow field cannot be formed around the cold gas tube inside the conventional gas heater.

Installing vertical guide plates in the midst of the convective tube bundle’s left and right passes might improve natural convection heat transfer while having a minor impact on water radiation. The total heat transfer rate in the convective tube bundle may be lowered by 1.49%∼2.04%. The employment of the vertical guide plate with a height of 550 mm is the optimized case.

Data Availability Statement

The raw data supporting the conclusion of this article will be made available by the authors, without undue reservation.

Author Contributions

All authors listed have made a substantial, direct and intellectual contribution to the work, and approved it for publication.

Funding

This research paper is supported by the China National Natural Science Foundation (No. 51606116) and Shanghai Scientific and Technological Research Projects (No. 19195810800).

Conflict of Interest

ZZ is employed by Shanghai Petrochemical Co., Ltd.

The remaining authors declare that the research was conducted in the absence of any commercial or financial relationships that could be construed as a potential conflict of interest.

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Keywords: gas heater, vertical guide plate, heat transfer enhancement, natural convection, radiation, thermal efficiency

Citation: Guo Y, Zhang X and Zhou Z (2022) Coupled Heat and Flow Analysis Inside a Diversion-Type Gas Heater With Vertical Guide Plate Structure. Front. Energy Res. 10:837104. doi: 10.3389/fenrg.2022.837104

Received: 16 December 2021; Accepted: 22 February 2022;
Published: 11 April 2022.

Edited by:

Jiang Bian, China University of Petroleum, China

Reviewed by:

Meysam Atashafrooz, Sirjan University of Technology, Iran
Balaji Kumar, VIT University, India

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