NUMERICAL AND EXPERIMENTAL INVESTIGATION OF TEMPERATURE DISTRIBUTION INSIDE A HEATING OVEN

摘要

Commercial bakery ovens are used mainly to keep the foodstuffs warm. Minimum variations in temperature distribution among the foodstuffs and minimum energy consumption are the essential requirements. Heating ovens are presently available with heating coils placed at bottom. Temperature distribution inside the heating oven is not uniform. In order to make temperature distribution uniform, numerical and experimental investigations are carried out by keeping the heating coils at side, middle and bottom position of heating oven. From the investigations, minimum variations in temperature distribution have been found for side position and energy consumption is less compared with other positions.