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http://dx.doi.org/10.7731/KIFSE.2014.28.1.052

Numerical Analysis of Unsteady Heat Transfer for the Location Selection of Anti-freeze for the Fire Protection Piping with Electrical Heat Trace  

Choi, Myoung-Young (Fire Insurers Laboratories of Korea)
Lee, Dong-Wook (Dept. of Mechanical & Automotive Engineering, Seoul National Univ. of Science & Technology)
Choi, Hyoung-Gwon (Dept. of Mechanical & Automotive Engineering, Seoul National Univ. of Science & Technology)
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Fire Science and Engineering / v.28, no.1, 2014 , pp. 52-57 More about this Journal
Abstract
In this paper, the unsteady incompressible Navier-Stokes equations coupled with energy equation were solved to find out the optimal location of electrical heat trace for anti-freeze of water inside the pipe for fire protection. Since the conduction equation of pipe was coupled with the natural convection of water, the analysis of conjugate heat transfer was conducted. A commercial code (ANSYS-FLUENT) based on SIMPLE-type algorithm was used for investigating the unsteady flows and temperature distributions in water region. From the numerical experiments, the isotherms and the vector fields in water region were obtained. Furthermore, it was found that the lowest part of the pipe cross-section was an optimal position of electrical heat trace assuming the constant thermal expansion coefficient of water since the minimum temperature of the water with the position is higher than those with the other positions.
Keywords
Heat tracing; anti-freeze; CFD; Natural convection; Conjugate heat transfer;
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