The assumption of local thermal equilibrium (LTE) is very common in the study of reacting flows in porous media. The assumption simplifies the structure of the solutions and places fewer constraints on computational methods for the domain and boundary conditions. However, in certain systems, such as gas/solid metal hydride reactors, the boundary conditions may impose high energy transfer rates which produce slowly evolving phase change fronts coupled with rapid kinetics. Overall performance of the systems is proportional to the release or absorption of hydrogen, and this is sensitively related to temperature. Thus, capturing local departures from LTE is required. This paper directly evaluates the influence of these effects by solving an NLTE (non-local thermal equilibrium) formulation for coupled reactors as a function of the interphase heat transfer coefficient, The reactor dynamics and overall energy balances are compared to solutions previously obtained from LTE calculations. The results appear to be the first NLTE results for coupled reactors. They confirm the existence of NLTE effects and suggest the magnitude of for which they can be minimized.
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Formulation and Numerical Solution of Non-Local Thermal Equilibrium Equations for Multiple Gas/Solid Porous Metal Hydride Reactors
George M. Lloyd, Mem. ASME Postdoctoral Associate,
George M. Lloyd, Mem. ASME Postdoctoral Associate
Department of Civil and Materials Engineering, University of Illinois at Chicago, 842 West Taylor Street, Chicago, IL 60607
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A. Razani, Professor,
A. Razani, Professor
Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM 87106
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Kwang J. Kim, Research Professor
Kwang J. Kim, Research Professor
Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM 87106
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George M. Lloyd, Mem. ASME Postdoctoral Associate
Department of Civil and Materials Engineering, University of Illinois at Chicago, 842 West Taylor Street, Chicago, IL 60607
A. Razani, Professor
Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM 87106
Kwang J. Kim, Research Professor
Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM 87106
Contributed by the Heat Transfer Division for publication in the JOURNAL OF HEAT TRANSFER. Manuscript received by the Heat Transfer Division October 25, 1999; revision received December 6, 2000. Associate Editor: C. Beckermann.
J. Heat Transfer. Jun 2001, 123(3): 520-526 (7 pages)
Published Online: December 6, 2000
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October 25, 1999
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December 6, 2000
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Lloyd, G. M., Razani, A., and Kim, K. J. (December 6, 2000). "Formulation and Numerical Solution of Non-Local Thermal Equilibrium Equations for Multiple Gas/Solid Porous Metal Hydride Reactors ." ASME. J. Heat Transfer. June 2001; 123(3): 520–526. https://doi.org/10.1115/1.1370521
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