Sh. Sun et Tr. Marrero, EXPERIMENTAL-STUDY OF SIMULTANEOUS HEAT AND MOISTURE TRANSFER AROUND SINGLE SHORT POROUS CYLINDERS DURING CONVECTION DRYING BY A PSYCHROMETRY METHOD, International journal of heat and mass transfer, 39(17), 1996, pp. 3559-3565
This paper presents results of theoretical and experimental studies on
heat and moisture transfer around single short porous cylinders durin
g forced convective drying. Air was passed across saturated coal logs,
varying air humidity, temperature and velocity, as well as log aspect
ratio and diameter. After considering the transport coupling effects,
experimental results from loss of moisture and surface temperature in
dicate that calculated heat transfer coefficients are twice coefficien
ts for systems with only heat transfer. The coupled heat and mass tran
sfer results are correlated in terms of the dimensionless Nusselt and
Sherwood numbers, Nu = 0.056 Re-0.65 Gu(-0.43) and Sh = 0.047 Re-0.67
Gu(-0.42), where Re is the Reynolds number and Gu the Gukhman number.
The surface temperatures during drying were well estimated using a mod
ified energy balance formula. The new correlation is useful to predict
the initial drying rates for short cylinders with an aspect ratio fro
m 1.2 to 2.0. Copyright (C) 1996 Elsevier Science Ltd.