Vol 26, No 3 (2017)

The composition of volatile and solid products of oxidation of hydrogen sulfide and stainless steel in gas mixtures containing H₂S, O₂, H₂O, and CO₂ has been determined using mass spectrometry, x-ray diffraction analysis, and scanning electron microscopy. It has been shown that holding an H₂S–O₂ mixture at 301 K results in prevailing formation of elemental sulfur and iron sulfides in the form of porous hygroscopic crust on the reactor wall surface. Formation of gas-phase sulfur causes self-acceleration of the oxidation of hydrogen sulfide; the resulting water triggers corrosion of the reactor wall. Heating of the resulting sulfur-sulfide crust in O₂ medium is accompanied by formation of SO₂ and heat release at T > 508 K. After heating of the H₂S–CO₂ mixture to 615 K, H₂ and COS were found in the volatile reactants; no noticeable corrosion of the reactor wall has been detected. It has been established that addition of O₂ to the H₂S–CO₂ mixture and its heating to 673 K leads to formation of ferrous sulfates. The mechanisms of the observed processes are discussed.

Results of numerical study of laminar free convection and heat transfer in a vertical plane-parallel channel with two thin adiabatic fins on its walls are presented. The channel has the open inlet and outlet, and its surfaces are maintained at the same temperature. The channel height is unchanged with elongation parameter A = L/w = 10, and the fins are located in the middle of the channel toward each other. Fin height l/w = 0 ÷ 0.4 and Rayleigh number Ra = 10² ÷ 10⁵ are varied in calculations. The effect of these parameters on the flow structure, temperature field, local and integral heat transfer, and gas flow caused by gravitational forces are analyzed in detail. Numerical analysis is based on solving the full Navier–Stokes and energy equations in twodimensional statement and Boussinesq approximation. To determine the dynamic and thermal parameters at the inlet and outlet, the calculation is carried out with two large volumes attached to the inlet and outlet. The features of the flow and heat transfer at separated flow around the channel fins are studied in detail in this work.

The article studies mathematical simulation of microwave heating of flow in a slotted channel. The internal heat sources, which are proportional to the absorbed microwave energy, obey the Bouguer law. The stationary temperature distributions in the liquid, wall inner surface andmiddle of the wall along the channel have been found from the balance of heat supply and heat release. The maximum temperature values over channel cross sections have also been determined. The heat transfer to the flow was realized in the nonboiling convective regime. The microwave power was selected such that themaximum temperatures and heat fluxes did not exceed themaximumallowable values for the materials.

Results of an experimental and numerical simulation of heat transfer in an upward bubbly flowin a sudden pipe expansion are presented. The experimental study of the heat transfer has been performed using infrared thermography. The measurements of the bubble size before the pipe expansion area were carried out by the shadow photographymethod. The numerical simulation of the bubbly flow structure in the sudden pipe expansion has been performed using the Eulerian approach in the presence of heat transfer between the two-phase flow and the wall surface. The model uses the system of Reynolds-averaged Navier–Stokes equations in an axisymmetric approximation, written with consideration of the back effect of bubbles on the averaged and pulsation characteristics of the flow. It has been experimentally and numerically shown that addition of air bubbles causes a significant (up to 3-fold) increase in the heat transfer intensity, these effects growing with bubble concentration. The largest rise in the heat transfer has been revealed in the region of flow relaxation downstream of the flow attachment point.

Several boundary layer flowswith heat and mass transfer problems do arise from a pebble bed nuclear reactor system. In this study, we examine the combined effects of variable thermal conductivity, thermal diffusion, diffusion thermo, heat source, chemical reaction and fluid rotation on hydromagnetic mixed convective flow with heat and mass transfer over a vertical plate embedded in porous medium. The governing partial differential equations have been transformed into a system of ordinary differential equations by employing the similarity transformation and solved numerically using the Runge–Kutta–Fehlberg method with a shooting technique. Pertinent results obtained are presented graphically and in tabular form with respect to variation in various thermophysical parameters. A comparison of the special case of this study with the previously published work shows excellent agreement.

This paper investigates numerically the characteristics of subcooled flow boiling of a magnetic nanofluid (refrigerant-113 and 4 vol% Fe₃O₄) in a vertical annulus, which is exposed to a nonuniform transverse magnetic field generated by the quadrupole magnet. A control volume technique and SIMPLEC algorithm have been used for discretizing the governing equations and pressure-velocity coupling, respectively. The two-fluid model has been used to simulate subcooled flow boiling of the refrigerant-113. The results indicate that subcooled flow boiling characteristics change not only by using nanofluid as the working fluid, but also by applying the nonuniform transverse magnetic field. In the presence of the aforementioned magnetic field due to the Kelvin force, the fluid attracted to the outer wall. This leads to higher bubble detachment frequency so that the heat pumping is increased and the void fraction on the heated wall is decreased. Thus, the critical heat flux as one of the most important parameters in boiling processes will be increased.