Heavy fuel oils require heated tanks to facilitate their transportation and processing. This paper proposes and investigates threeand four-level heating coil bundles. Numerical study revealed that powerful large-scale circulation of the heated fluid enhances heat transfer, delivering 16.7% and 23% improvements to the average heat transfer coefficient for the three-and four-level bundles, respectively. Furthermore, this circulation improves oil mixing and limits the variation in bulk oil temperat...

【文章頁數(shù)】：12 頁

【文章目錄】：
1 Introduction
2 Problem Formulation
    2.1 Shallow Profile Heating Coil Bundles
    2.2 Tank Heating Problem
3 Numerical Solution
    3.1 Governing Equations
    3.2 Mesh
    3.3 Initial and Boundary Conditions
    3.4 Solver Settings
4 Results
    4.1 Coil Heat Transfer Coefficient
    4.2 Estimate of Mesh Discretization Error
    4.3 Oil Velocity
    4.4 Oil Temperature
    4.5 Oil Flow Close to the Bottom of the Tank
5 Discussion
6 Conclusions



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