Measurement of Heat Transfer and Flow Resistance for a Packed Bed of Horticultural Products with the Implementation of a Single Blow Technique

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Adam Łapiński¹  Kamil Śmierciew¹  Dariusz Butrymowicz¹  Huiming Zou² 

[1] Department of Heat Technology, Białystok University of Technology, Wiejska 45C, 15-351 Białystok, Poland;Key Laboratory of Thermal Science and Technology, Technical Institute of Physics and Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, China;

关键词: refrigerated storage;    horticultural products;    packed bed;    convective heat transfer;    flow resistance;    forced air cooling;   

DOI  :  10.3390/pr9122151

来源: DOAJ

【 摘 要 】

This paper provides the practical implementation of the single blow technique as an effective approach of average convective heat transfer coefficient measurement for a packed bed of horticultural products. The measurement approach was positively validated for the case of a packed bed of balls. The presented results cover heat transfer coefficient results for carrots stored in packed beds for two various arrangements (regular and irregular) and bed of apples under conditions of various turbulent intensity at the inlet to the bed. The turbulent intensity (defined as the ratio of the root mean square of the turbulent fluctuation of the air velocity to the mean air velocity) varied from 0.02 to 0.14. The applied velocity ranges for the tests refers to the conventional storage conditions. The heat transfer correlations were proposed based on the obtained results for each arrangement. It was demonstrated that due to flow laminarization inside the bed, the turbulence intensity has no significant effect on heat transfer inside the bed. Heat transfer enhancement of up to 25% was demonstrated for the case of the irregular carrot arrangement in the tested bed. The flow resistance correlations were additionally proposed for the tested beds. It was demonstrated that the product arrangement does not produce an important effect on the pressure drop.

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