Modeling of radiative heat transfer between high-temperature fluidized beds and immersed walls

This paper presents a theoretical model for predicting the radiative heat transfer rate between high-temperature fluidized bed and immersed walls, which can be used upon the base of emulsion packet model of heat transfer in bubbling fluidized bed. The model adopted radiative flux computation method to calculate radiative heat transfer between fluidized disperse phase contacting to the wall and immersed walls, in which the absorption and back-scattering coefficients was obtained from the reflectivity and the absorptivity of a layer of disperse media of a single particle thickness. In such a model, many factors, such as particle size, particle emissivity, bed void fraction, fluidized bed and wall temperatures, and so on, are included theoretically to calculate radiative heat transfer between immersed walls and fluidized beds. As a result, the model results provide a reasonable explanation of the experimental observation of that radiative heat transfer rate in fluidized beds increases with the increases of the superficial fluidizing velocity. In addition, the modeling prediction for the trend of radiative heat transfer rate between the fluidized bed and its immersed surface on the variation of wall temperature conforms to the classical experimental trend. (C) 2004 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.