North American Combustion

Ria thought carefully and wrote on 12/3/2004 2:47 PM:

This is not a trivial problem. At these temperatures there is probably a substantial amount of radiation exchange between the combustion products and the chamber walls. This is on top of convective heat transfer.

The amount of radiation exchange is dependent on gas emissivity & tranmissivity, chamber wall temperature, particulate loading (if any) and even the shape of the chamber.

Convection will depend on gas velocities, gas properties, wall friction and wall temperature.

Any decent heat transfer book will have enough tools so you can take a stab at calculating the heat loss. But I wouldn't bet the house on your answer.

Lance

Hi Lance!Thank you very much for your point of view about my problem.I've this book on heat transfer: KERN- Process heat tranfer. What you think about this book?Please let me know.Bye!

Andrea

Don't know anything about Kern, it might be fine. But when I see the term "process" I think this book is more about heat exchangers than radiation heat transfer.

How about good ol' Heat Transfer by Holman?

Lance

Lima thought carefully and wrote on 12/7/2004 1:27 AM: