ISSN:
0032-3888
Keywords:
Chemistry
;
Chemical Engineering
Source:
Wiley InterScience Backfile Collection 1832-2000
Topics:
Chemistry and Pharmacology
,
Mechanical Engineering, Materials Science, Production Engineering, Mining and Metallurgy, Traffic Engineering, Precision Mechanics
,
Physics
Notes:
Many industrial processes require that solids be transformed to the molten state, thus accurate correlations of heat transfer and melting rates are important in process design. The heat-balance integral type of analysis is applied here to melter systems where phase change and convection effects are of equal importance, and the appropriate parameters that govern the thermal transport process are presented. Applications of the results to both Newtonian and non-Newtonian, power-law melts are discussed, and extensions to variable property situations are outlined. Although the results herein are directly applicable to contact melting systems, the governing parameters are useful in the correlation of other melting processes as well. Acomparison is made between the theory and some experimental data for a gravity-feed contact melter. The results are directly applicable in practice to the melting of bulk and granular crystalline polymers on melting grids, tube bundles, and plates.
Additional Material:
4 Ill.
Type of Medium:
Electronic Resource
URL:
http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/pen.760120403
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