BULETINUL INSTITUTULUI POLITEHNIC DIN IAŞI
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Bul. Inst. Polit. Iaşi, t. LVIII (LXII), f. 3, 2012 119<br />
where: Φ is the quantity of interest which in this case is the energy or humidity<br />
of the intergranular air, ρ a is the density of air, v is the superficial or Darcian<br />
velocity of the air as opposed to the average velocity of the air flowing between<br />
the grain kernels, Γ is the effective diffusion coefficient of Φ through a bed of<br />
grains, t is time, ∇ is the del operator Eqs. (2), S Φ is a source term.<br />
∂ ∂ ∂<br />
∇ = + + . (2)<br />
∂x<br />
∂y<br />
∂z<br />
Eq. (1) refers to a differentially small region of grain and this implies that the<br />
properties have been averaged over some finite volume, otherwise they would<br />
be discontinuous at the boundaries of the malt kernels and intergranular air.<br />
2.1. Heat Transfer<br />
The variable, Φ, in the generalised transport Eq. (1) can also represent<br />
energy. In the case of porous media, such as a bulk of malt, the enthalpies of the<br />
fluid (air) and solid (malt kernels) phases must be considered. The computer<br />
software used in this work solves an enthalpy balance that ultimately reduces to<br />
⎛<br />
⎛ ∂HW<br />
⎞⎞∂T<br />
⎜( ρεc<br />
a a<br />
+ ρs(1<br />
− ε) ⎜cs + cwW + ca ( ρavT<br />
)<br />
T<br />
⎟⎟<br />
+ ∇ =<br />
⎝<br />
⎝<br />
∂ ⎠⎠<br />
∂t<br />
(3)<br />
2<br />
= k ∇ T + S ,<br />
eff<br />
en<br />
where: c a , c s and c w are the specific heats of air, malt and liquid water,<br />
respectively, ρ s is the density of malt kernels on a dry basis, ε – void fraction of<br />
the bed of malt (we assume that value 0,15) , W – malt moisture content , H W -<br />
is the integral heat of wetting of the malt, T – temperature, k eff is the effective<br />
thermal conductivity of the bulk of malt (0.157 W/m 2 K), S en is the thermal<br />
source term that results from heat being liberated or extracted from the malt<br />
when they adsorb or desorb moisture. (Thorpe, 2007) demonstrates that ∂H w /∂T<br />
is negligibly small for grains compared with the specific heat of moist grain and<br />
it can be ignored. A feature of FLUENT is that the specific heat of the porous<br />
zone must be entered as a constant, but in this application the term equivalent to<br />
specific heat, i.e. c g +c w W+(∂H w /∂T), varies with moisture content. For he<br />
purposes of the simulation presented here we assume that the start value of the<br />
malt moisture content, W, is 0.557, which corresponds to a moisture content of<br />
49% wet basis and the grain has a temperature of 21 ºC. The source term, S en ,<br />
takes the form<br />
W<br />
Sen =−hs(1 −ε) ρ ∂<br />
s<br />
,<br />
∂t<br />
(4)<br />
where: h s is the heat of sorption of water on the malt. (Hunter, 1989)<br />
demonstrates that the ratio of the heat of sorption to the latent heat of<br />
vaporisation, h v , of free water is given by