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Thermohydraulic behaviour of a two-phase mixture: ice slurry. Theoretical and experimental studies.

Comportement thermohydraulique d'un fluide frigoporteur diphasique : le coulis de glace. Etude théorique et expérimentale.

Author(s) : BEN LAKHDAR M. A.

Type of monograph: Doctoral thesis

Summary

Doctoral dissertation in thermal and energy engineering from INSA in Lyon, France. It concerns the thermohydraulic study of a two-phase solid-liquid mixture, constituted by a suspension of fine ice particles in an aqueous solution, used as a secondary refrigerant in an indirect cooling loop. The thermophysical properties of the two-phase mixture and those of the residual solution are calculated from properties of an ideal mixture of pure compounds corrected by a function of excess, and prolonged in the two-phase domain with empirical correlations. A computer program has been developed in order to calculate these properties. A local three-dimensional model of flow and heat transfer based on equations of balance has been developed by using a computational fluid dynamics code (PHOENICS). While the results for a single-phase fluid are validated by the experiment, on the other hand those obtained for ice slurry give some results that are too far removed from the reality.

Details

  • Original title: Comportement thermohydraulique d'un fluide frigoporteur diphasique : le coulis de glace. Etude théorique et expérimentale.
  • Record ID : 1999-3283
  • Languages: French
  • Publication: INSA - Lyon (Institut National des Sciences Appliquées de Lyon) - France/France
  • Publication date: 1998/11/18
  • Source: Source: 98 ISAL 0092; 271 p. (21 x 29.7); fig.; tabl.; append.
  • Document available for consultation in the library of the IIR headquarters only.

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