Influence of CO_(2) inleakage on the slight-alkalization of generator internal cooling water

The slight-alkalization of generator internal cooling water(GICW)is widely used to inhibit the corrosion of hollow copper conductor and thereby ensure the safe operation of the generator.CO_(2) inleakage is increasingly identified as a potential security risk for GICW system.In this paper,the influence of CO_(2) inleakage on the slight-alkalization of GICW was theoretically discussed.Based on the equilibriums of the CO_(2)-NaOH-H_(2)O system,CO_(2) inleakage saturation was derived to quantify the amount of the dissolved CO_(2) in GICW.This parameter can be directly calculated with the measured conductivity and the[Na+]of GICW.The influence of CO_(2) inleakage on the slight-alkalization conditioning of GICW and the measurement of its water quality parameters were then analyzed.The more severe the inleakage,the narrower the water quality operation ranges of GICW,resulting in the more difficult the slight-alkalization conditioning of GICW.The temperature calibrations of the conductivity and the pH value of GICW show nonlinear correlations with the amount of CO_(2) inleakage and the NaOH dosage.This study provides insights into the influence of CO_(2) inleakage on the slight-alkalization of GICW,which can serve as the theoretical basis for the actual slight-alkalization when CO_(2) inleakage occurs.

Review on effect of applied internal cooling source and vibration on metal solidification process

Advancements in metallurgical technology have led to the emergence of high-performance requirements for metal materials,like high uniformity,high purity,and superfine crystallinity.This has resulted in the development and application of internal cooling source(ICS),vibrational,and vibrational internal cooling source methods in metal solidification processes to afford products with refined crystal grains and large proportions of equiaxed crystals.These methods have gradually been introduced into laboratories and some steel mills over the past few decades.However,there are few successful industrial applications of these methods,as there is no comprehensive understanding of their control theories and principles.Accordingly,the development,basic principles,and classifications of the three types of methods are summarized,and their impact on the solidification of molten metals and the morphology of solid products is discussed.In addition,experimental and numerical simulation-based researches on each type of method are reviewed and their prospects for applications are briefly discussed to control metal solidification.Finally,detailed future perspectives are provided on vibratory strip feeding,ICS,and pulsed magneto-oscillation methods.Hopefully,it will serve as a reference for future studies of the application of these and related methods in metal solidification processes.

An internal cooling grinding wheel:From design to application

The cooling and lubrication conditions during the grinding process significantly impact the nickel-based superalloy’s final service performance.The existing jet cooling and heat pipe technology can solve the heat conduction problem in the grinding process of superalloy.Still,managing cooling,lubrication,and chip removal are difficult.This paper describes the design and fabrication of a novel central fluid-through internal cooling slotted grinding wheel with an ordered grain pattern to improve the grinding machinability of a nickel-based superalloy.The pressurized grinding fluid was ejected into the grinding zone via the pipe and tool holder from the lower-end face of the inner cooling wheel.The structure of the grinding wheel was optimized using computational fluid dynamics(CFD).The flow field in the grinding area achieved the highest overall flow rate,distribution homogeneity,and effective exit flow when the internal flow channel had four throughholes.The exit for the inner runner is located at the abrasive edge and diamond staggered pattern.Single-layer brazing was used to create cubic boron nitride(CBN)abrasive rings with various abrasive patterns.The internal cooling wheel matrix and various components were prepared according to the optimized grinding wheel geometry model.A grinding test bench was built to conduct an experimental study of grinding the nickel-based alloy GH4169.The results show that,under the same conditions,a diamond-shaped staggered pattern obtains lower grinding temperature,lower surface roughness,better surface morphology,and more significant residual compressive stress distribution than an abrasive cluster diagonal circular staggered pattern or disordered pattern.The average effective flow rate calculated by CFD is increased by 42.3%when compared to the disordered pattern.In the experiment,compared to the disordered arrangement,with the increase of grinding wheel’s rotating speed and coolant pressure,the average grinding temperature of abrasive grain with diamond-interleaved arrangement decreases by 58.2%and 51.7%respectively,and its surface hardening degree decreases by 11.1%and 11.7%respectively.

Magnetohydrodynamic‑based Internal Cooling System for a Ceramic Cutting Tool:Concept Design,Numerical Study,and Experimental Evalidation

The efective removal of the heat generated during mechanical cutting processes is crucial to enhancing tool life and produc-ing workpieces with superior surface fnish.The internal cooling systems used in cutting inserts employ a liquid water-based solvent as the primary medium to transport the excess thermal energy generated during the cutting process.The limitations of this approach are the low thermal conductivity of water and the need for a mechanical input to circulate the coolant around the inner chamber of the cutting tool.In this context,this paper proposes an alternative method in which liquid gallium is used as the coolant in combination with a magnetohydrodynamic(MHD)pump,which avoids the need for an external power source.Using computational fuid dynamics,we created a numerical model of an internal cooling system and then solved it under conditions in which a magnetic feld was applied to the liquid metal.This was followed by a simulation study performed to evaluate the efectiveness of liquid gallium over liquid water.The results of experiments conducted under non-cooling and liquid gallium cooling conditions were analyzed and compared in terms of the tool wear rate.The results showed that after six machining cycles at a cutting speed Vc=250 m min−1,the corner wear VBc rate was 75µm with the coolant of and 48µm with the MHD-based coolant on,representing a decrease of 36%in tool wear.At Vc=900 m min−1,the corner wear VBc rate was 75µm with the coolant of and 246µm with the MHD-based coolant on,representing a decrease of 31%in tool wear.When external cooling using liquid water was added,the results showed at Vc=250 m min−1,the diference between the tool wear rate reduction with the internal liquid gallium coolant relative to the external coolant was 29%.When the cutting speed was increased to Vc=900 m min−1,the diference observed between the internal liquid gallium coolant relative to the external coolant was 16%.The study proves the feasibility of using liquid gallium as a coolant to efectively remove thermal energy through internally fabricated cooling channels in cutting inserts.

Suppression of Surface Burn in Grinding of Titanium Alloy TC4 Using a Self-inhaling Internal Cooling Wheel

Based on analysis of surface average temperature and burn degree, this article obtains the threshold temperature of surface burn in grinding titanium alloy with cup wheels. Meanwhile, the impact of the burn degree on the metallographic structure of workpiece surface and metallurgical phase transformations is investigated. In order to reduce the grinding temperature and improve the grinding efficiency, a self-inhaling structure cup segmented wheel is developed to generate internal cooling effect. The internal cooling technology is compared with traditional cooling conditions in the grinding experiments on TC4 （Ti-6Al-4V）. The results indicate that the self-inhaling internal cooling wheel can reduce the grinding surface temperature by 30% or more, and the grinding efficiency doubles. Utilizing water-based semi-synthetic coolant, the segmented wheel with the self-inhaling structure can further reduce the grinding temperature by about 50%.

A review of recent studies on rotating internal cooling for gas turbine blades

Gas turbines have been used extensively for aircraft and marine propulsions as well as land-based power generation because of their high thermal efficiency and large power to weight ratios.To further increase the thermal efficiency,numerous prior researches on gas turbine blade internal cooling have been intensively carried out,majorly under stationary conditions.However,the stationary studies neglect the effects of Coriolis and buoyancy forces,which should change the velocity,turbulence and temperature distribution under rotating conditions.To elucidate the rotational effects on gas turbine internal cooling,the extensive results collected from recent investigations are discussed,which include the rotation and buoyancy effects on the rib turbulated cooling,pin fin cooling,jet impingement cooling,dimple/protrusion cooling,latticework cooling as well as swirl cooling.The rotational effects on the friction factors and the most employed experimental and numerical methods are also presented.Moreover,recommendations for future research are outlined.Therefore,this review article provides extensive literature information for the design of the next-generation high-efficiency internal cooling for rotating turbine blades.

Flow Structure and Heat Exchange Analysis in Internal Cooling Channel of Gas Turbine Blade

This paper presents the study of the flow structure and heat transfer,and also their correlations on the four walls of a radial cooling passage model of a gas turbine blade.The investigations focus on heat transfer and aerodynamic measurements in the channel,which is an accurate representation of the configuration used in aeroengines.Correlations for the heat transfer coefficient and the pressure drop used in the design of radial cooling passages are often developed from simplified models.It is important to note that real engine passages do not have perfect rectangular cross sections,but include coiner fillet,ribs with fillet radii and special orientation.Therefore,this work provides detailed fluid flow and heat transfer data for a model of radial cooling geometry which possesses very realistic features.

Evolution of globular microstructures during processing of aluminium slurries

Slurry processing experiments were performed with AlSi7Mg0.6 to identify the globularization mechanisms.The melt sample water quenched slightly above the liquidus point is predominantly dendritic while that cooled into the semi-solid temperature range internally via stirring the melt with a rotating cylindrical block of the alloy itself becomes fully globular.The globules are much smaller when internal cooling and stirring are employed longer to achieve higher solid fractions before casting.Coarse dendrite fragments of various sizes are revealed,in the case of stirring after an initial fraction of solid is first formed without the benefit of additional internal cooling.

Fuel Economy Opportunities for Internal CombustionEngines by Means of Oil-Cooling

Comparative experiments of oil and water-cooling were performed on a 4-cylinder automotive gasoline engine and a single-cylinder direct injection Diesel engine. Measurements were made to investigate the variation of fuel consumption, combustor wall temperature and engine emissions (HC, CO, NOx and smoke) with two cooling media at steady-state conditions. Significant improvement of fuel economy was found mainly at partial load conditions with oil-cooling in comparison with the baseline waer-cooling both for the two engines. The experimental results also showed general trend of reduction in engine emissions using oil as the coolant. Measurements of wall temperature demonstrated that oil-cooling resulted in considerable increase of the combustor wall temperature and reduce of warmup period in starting process. For automotive gasoline engine, road tests indicated the same trend of fUel economy improvement with oil-cooling. The performance of the automotive oil-cooled engine was fUrther improved by internal cooling with water or methanol injection.

Experimental and Theoretical Study of an Internally Cooled Liquid Desiccant Dehumidifier

Liquid desiccant dehumidifiers are useful for simultaneously recovering heat and water from flue gas.Internally cooled dehumidifiers are generally superior to adiabatic dehumidifiers in terms of the consumption of the desiccant and the size of the equipment required.This study examines the performance of a counter-flow dehumidifier through experiments and simulations under different operating conditions,and analyzes the moisture effectiveness and enthalpy effectiveness as performance indices.By applying correlations from the literature,the theoretical model can predict the performance of the dehumidifier within an acceptable range of accuracy.According to the experimental results,droplets were visible at a low desiccant flow rate when the velocity of the gas was above 4.88 m/s.Moreover,a higher cooling ratio and a higher temperature of the solution enhanced the effectiveness of the dehumidification.A temperature cross occurred between the gas and the solution when the mass transfer was sufficiently high,which reflects better heat transfer performance than the conventional convective heat exchanger.

Current Status and Prospects of Supercomputing Used for Gas Turbine Engines Design

The engineering analysis techniques used for the GTE （gas turbine engines） design are presented, the physical effects, which impact is not currently taken into account are described, further research directions to strengthen core design competencies are identified, the requirements for computing power are formulated. Internal cooling techniques for gas turbine blades have been studied for several decades. The internal cooling techniques of the gas turbine blade includes： jet impingement, rib turbulated cooling, and pin-fin cooling which have been developed to maintain the metal temperature of turbine vane and blades within acceptable limits in this harsh environment.

Investigation on heat transfer enhancement and pressure loss of double swirl chambers cooling

By merging two standard swirl chambers,an alternative cooling configuration named double swirl chambers(DSC)has been developed.In the DSC cooling configuration,the main physical phenomena of the swirl flow in swirl chamber and the advantages of swirl flow in heat transfer augmentation are maintained.Additionally,three new physical phenomena can be found in DSC cooling configuration,which result in a further improvement of the heat transfer:(1)impingement effect has been observed,(2)internal heat exchange has been enhanced between fluids in two swirls,and(3)“∞”shape swirl has been generated because of cross effect between two chambers,which improves the mixing of the fluids.Because of all these improvements,the DSC cooling configuration leads to a higher globally-averaged thermal performance parameter(Nu/Nu_(∞)/(f/f0)^(1/3))than standard swirl chamber.In particular,at the inlet region,the augmentation of the heat transfer is nearly 7.5 times larger than the fully developed non-swirl turbulent flow and the circumferentially averaged Nusselt number coefficient is 41%larger than the standard swirl chamber.Within the present work,a further investigation on the DSC cooling configuration has been focused on the influence of geometry parameters e.g.merging ratio of chambers and aspect ratio of inlet duct on the cooling perfomance.The results show a very large influence of these geometry parameters in heat transfer enhancement and pressure drop ratio.Compared with the basic configuration of DSC cooling,the improved configuration with 20%to 23%merging ratio shows the highest globally-averaged themal performance parameter.With the same cross section area in tangential inlet ducts,the DSC cooling channel with larger aspect ratio shows larger heat transfer enhancement and at the same time reduced pressure drop ratio,which results in a better globally-averaged themal performance parameter.