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Choking Phenomena of Gas‐Powder Flows at Sonic Velocity
Author(s) -
Li Qiang,
Zou Zongshu,
Tan Shengming
Publication year - 2005
Publication title -
steel research international
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.603
H-Index - 49
eISSN - 1869-344X
pISSN - 1611-3683
DOI - 10.1002/srin.200506081
Subject(s) - choking , mechanics , materials science , thermodynamics , medicine , anatomy , physics
Choking phenomena of gas‐powder flows in a horizontal constant cross‐section duct are experimentally studied using three kinds of powders: Al 2 O 3 , hollow Al 2 O 3 (H‐alumina) and Al, with different physical properties such as densities, specific heat capacities and thermal conductivities. The relationship between the mass flowrate and inlet stagnant pressures is analysed and the apparent sonic velocity (ASV) of gas‐powder flows is defined. The influences of physical properties of powders on the ASV are obtained by the comparison between the experimental results of different powders. Two characteristic parameters, the effective specific heat capacity (ESHC) of solid phase and the effective isentropic exponent (EIE) of the mixture, are defined to describe the choking phenomena. The ESHC is not only measured through experiment but also calculated by numerical method. The calculated results are well consistent with the measured ones. As a preliminary application test for choking phenomena ‐ in order to uniform the pulverized coal injection (PCI) into a blast furnace ‐, a model PCI system with two branch pipes was set up and tests were carried out to verify the choking effect. The test results show that, during choking, the PC flow rates in the branch pipes can be well equalized no matter how much the downstream conditions differ from each other.