Research on the Effects of the Structure of Air Inlets and Outlets of Porcelainous PTC Heater

DOI

10.2991/seee-15.2015.18How to use a DOI?

Keywords

PTC heater; thermal comfort; louver angle

Abstract

The porcelainous PTC heater is used in electric locomotive cab to improve thermal comfort. In this paper, experiments were taken to test the heat transfer performance of the porcelainous PTC heater in the aspects of heat propagation distance and the interference between air inlets and outlets. The structure of the heater is optimized accordingly. In the operating condition of air outlet louvers angle 30° and air inlet louvers angle 15°, the retrofitted heater not only diminishes the mutual interference of air inlets and air outlets but also extends heat propagation distance.

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© 2015, 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  - Kan Wang
AU  - Ming Li
AU  - Kexin Zhang
AU  - Zhuoxian Gao
AU  - Quan Li
AU  - Jiapeng Zhang
AU  - Boyuan Zhang
PY  - 2015/10
DA  - 2015/10
TI  - Research on the Effects of the Structure of Air Inlets and Outlets of Porcelainous PTC Heater
BT  - Proceedings of the 2015 International Conference on Sustainable Energy and Environmental Engineering
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 70
EP  - 72
SN  - 2352-5401
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/seee-15.2015.18
DO  - 10.2991/seee-15.2015.18
ID  - Wang2015/10
ER  -