Simulation and Performance Analysis of a Novel LNG Air Vaporizer Coupled with Solar Wall

DOI

10.2991/iceep-17.2017.258How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Solar wall; CFD numerical simulation; thermal performance; LNG vaporization

Abstract

This paper presents a novel LNG air vaporizer that evaporates LNG using hot air generated by a solar wall. The simulation results and an overview of the thermal performance assessment are presented in this work. The simulations were made by use of the CFD software FLUENT to investigate the variation of both air temperature and air velocity in the solar wall. The calculations were also performed for a type YGK-350D AAV to predict the thermal performance of the new air vaporizer under different meteorological conditions and various structure parameters.Compared with a conventional AAV, the heat transfer performance of the novel air vaporizer is increased by 1.82 and 3.03 times on a typical day in summer and winter, respectively.

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© 2017, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Guohua Shi
AU  - Dan Li
AU  - Jia Wang
AU  - Min Tang
AU  - Jinrui Zhang
PY  - 2017/06
DA  - 2017/06
TI  - Simulation and Performance Analysis of a Novel LNG Air Vaporizer Coupled with Solar Wall
BT  - Proceedings of the 2017 6th International Conference on Energy and Environmental Protection (ICEEP 2017)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 1456
EP  - 1462
SN  - 2352-5401
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/iceep-17.2017.258
DO  - 10.2991/iceep-17.2017.258
ID  - Shi2017/06
ER  -