A reacting packed-bed undergoing a high-temperature thermochemical solid-gas transformation is considered. The steam- and dry-gasification of carbonaceous materials to syngas is selected as the model reaction. The exact 3D digital geometrical representation of the packed-bed is obtained by computer tomography and used in direct pore-level simulations to characterize its morphological and radiative transport properties as a function of the reaction extent. Two-point correlation functions and mathematical morphology operations are applied to calculate porosities, specific surfaces, particle-size distributions, and representative elementary volumes. The collision-based Monte Carlo method is applied to determine the probability distribution of attenuation path length and direction of incidence at the solid-fluid boundary, which are linked to the extinction coefficient, scattering phase function, and scattering albedo. These effective properties can be then incorporated in continuum models of the reacting packed-bed.
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Tomography-Based Analysis of Radiative Transfer in Reacting Packed Beds Undergoing a Solid-Gas Thermochemical Transformation
Sophia Haussener,
Sophia Haussener
Department of Mechanical and Process Engineering,
ETH Zurich
, 8092 Zurich, Switzerland
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Wojciech Lipiński,
Wojciech Lipiński
Department of Mechanical Engineering,
University of Minnesota
, Minneapolis, MN 55455
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Peter Wyss,
Peter Wyss
Department of Electronics/Metrology,
EMPA Material Science and Technology
, Überlandstrasse 129, 8600 Dübendorf, Switzerland
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Aldo Steinfeld
Aldo Steinfeld
Department of Mechanical and Process Engineering,
e-mail: aldo.steinfeld@ethz.ch
ETH Zurich
, 8092 Zurich, Switzerland and Solar Technology Laboratory, Paul Scherrer Institute
, 5232 Villigen, Switzerland
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Sophia Haussener
Department of Mechanical and Process Engineering,
ETH Zurich
, 8092 Zurich, Switzerland
Wojciech Lipiński
Department of Mechanical Engineering,
University of Minnesota
, Minneapolis, MN 55455
Peter Wyss
Department of Electronics/Metrology,
EMPA Material Science and Technology
, Überlandstrasse 129, 8600 Dübendorf, Switzerland
Aldo Steinfeld
Department of Mechanical and Process Engineering,
ETH Zurich
, 8092 Zurich, Switzerland and Solar Technology Laboratory, Paul Scherrer Institute
, 5232 Villigen, Switzerlande-mail: aldo.steinfeld@ethz.ch
J. Heat Transfer. Jun 2010, 132(6): 061201 (7 pages)
Published Online: March 25, 2010
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Received:
May 15, 2009
Revised:
October 22, 2009
Online:
March 25, 2010
Published:
March 25, 2010
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Haussener, S., Lipiński, W., Wyss, P., and Steinfeld, A. (March 25, 2010). "Tomography-Based Analysis of Radiative Transfer in Reacting Packed Beds Undergoing a Solid-Gas Thermochemical Transformation." ASME. J. Heat Transfer. June 2010; 132(6): 061201. https://doi.org/10.1115/1.4000749
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