Heat Storage Performance of a Honeycomb Ceramic Monolith

摘要

Honeycomb ceramic is the key component of the regenerative system. The three-dimensional numerical modelis established which is for thermal process in honeycomb regenerator. The numerical simulation was performed usingFLUENT, a commercial computational fluid dynamics (CFD) code, to compare simulation results to the test data. Theregenerative process of a honeycomb ceramic regenerator was simulated under different conditions. The results underdifferent flow rates, different flowing time, different materials and different wall thickness were investigated. The work inthis paper provides a theory basis and guide to the exploitation and appliance of HTAC system and the results of thenumerical calculation can be used as the foundation of engineering design. The results may be utilized for design ofporous media reactors and process optimization.