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Tube‐wall catalytic reactor cooled by an annular heat pipe
Author(s) -
Parent Y. O.,
Caram H. S.,
Coughlin R. W.
Publication year - 1983
Publication title -
aiche journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.958
H-Index - 167
eISSN - 1547-5905
pISSN - 0001-1541
DOI - 10.1002/aic.690290314
Subject(s) - heat pipe , heat transfer , mechanics , tube (container) , materials science , micro loop heat pipe , heat sink , capillary action , entrainment (biomusicology) , boiling , shell and tube heat exchanger , thermodynamics , composite material , philosophy , physics , aesthetics , rhythm
Cooling a tube‐wall reactor using an annular heat pipe ( AHP ) is more temperature‐stable, more flexible and more productive than cooling by conventional means. Tube‐wall reactors cooled by an annular heat pipe arrangement exhibit flatter temperature profiles and uniform redistribution of the imposed heat load. The combination of tube‐wall reactor and annular heat pipe is subject to the usual capacity limitations of the heat pipe: sonic flow, boiling heat transfer, liquid entrainment, and capillary flow of the working fluid.