Radiative models for the furnace side of a bottom-fired reformer

Applied Thermal Engineering

Volumn 25, Issue 14-15, 2005, Pages 2398-2411

  Farhadi, F ^a   Babaheidari, M Bahrami ^a   Hashemi, M M Y Motamed ^a  

^a SHARIF UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Iran)

Author keywords

Flux method; Heat transfer; Modeling; Radiation; Simulation; Zone method

Indexed keywords

CATALYSTS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FLUE GASES; HEAT TRANSFER; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; TEMPERATURE DISTRIBUTION;

FLUX METHOD; REFORMERS; TEMPERATURE PROFILE; ZONE METHOD;

HEAT RADIATION;

EID: 20344382745     PISSN: 13594311     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.applthermaleng.2004.12.017     Document Type: Article

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