Backscatter factor and absorption ratio of fibrous zirconia media in the visible |
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Authors: | Donatien Njomo Herve Thierry Kamdem Tagne |
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Affiliation: | (1) Heat Transfer Laboratory/University of Yaounde I, P.O. Box 812 Yaounde – Cameroon,;(2) Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics/ICTP, Strada Costiera, 11 – 34104 Trieste – Italy, |
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Abstract: | Fibrous thermal insulations are widely used to conserve energy in ambient to high temperature applications including buildings, solar collectors, heat exchangers, furnaces and thermal protection systems of reusable launch vehicles. It has long been recognised that zirconia has the lowest thermal conductivity of commercial refractories. The thermal conductivity of a zirconia fibrous medium is strongly dependent of its bulk density; high bulk densities of zirconia fibers provide the most effective insulation at high temperatures. Lee's theory for radiative transfer through fibrous media is used in this paper. The two-flux model is applied to determine the backward and forward parameters of a medium of zirconia fibers oriented in parallel planes. Theoretical calculations of the backscatter factor and absorption ratio of this medium are carried out in the visible spectrum for different size parameters of the fibers and for three different temperatures. Our results show that the backscatter factor of zirconia fibrous insulations is maximum, and therefore the heat transfer by the fibrous medium is the lowest, for a size parameter of 0.45 for all the temperatures studied. We also observed that the backscatter factor decreases with increasing temperature. |
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Keywords: | Fibrous insulation Zirconia Backscatter factor Absorption ratio |
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