Nowadays,it is a great challenge to reduce energy consumption and exhaust emission for human activities,in particular,high temperature industries.Among many efforts made to realize energy savings for high temperature ...Nowadays,it is a great challenge to reduce energy consumption and exhaust emission for human activities,in particular,high temperature industries.Among many efforts made to realize energy savings for high temperature furnaces and kilns,the use of high emissivity materials is considered to be an effective route to increase their thermal efficiency by enhancing heat transfer.Most materials with high refractoriness and superior chemical stability have weak infrared absorption and radiation properties;however,their emissivity in infrared regions(1 —25 μm) could be effectively increased by ion doping.This is attributed to three main mechanisms:1) distortion of the crystal lattice;2) increase of free carrier absorption; 3) formation of impurity energy level.In this paper,the development and advancement of various material systems with high emissivity including non-oxides and oxide based ceramics were reviewed.It is also suggested that the establishment of evaluation models or instruments for energy savings would be beneficial to design and application of high emissivity materials in various high-temperature environment.Furthermore,more efforts should be made on durability of high emissivity materials at high service temperatures and on the standardization of testing methods for emissivity.展开更多
基金Natural Science Foundation of China ( NSFC,Grant no. 51372255 )Beijing Natural Science Foundation ( BNSF,Grant no. 2131006 )+2 种基金International Science and Technology Cooperation Program of China ( Grant no. 2014DFR51010)External Cooperation Program of Chinese Academy of Sciences ( Grant no. GJHZ201310 )Open Foundation of State Key Laboratory of Advanced Refractories ( Grant no. 201401,Sinosteel Luoyang Institute of Refractories Research Co. ,Ltd. ) for the financial support
文摘Nowadays,it is a great challenge to reduce energy consumption and exhaust emission for human activities,in particular,high temperature industries.Among many efforts made to realize energy savings for high temperature furnaces and kilns,the use of high emissivity materials is considered to be an effective route to increase their thermal efficiency by enhancing heat transfer.Most materials with high refractoriness and superior chemical stability have weak infrared absorption and radiation properties;however,their emissivity in infrared regions(1 —25 μm) could be effectively increased by ion doping.This is attributed to three main mechanisms:1) distortion of the crystal lattice;2) increase of free carrier absorption; 3) formation of impurity energy level.In this paper,the development and advancement of various material systems with high emissivity including non-oxides and oxide based ceramics were reviewed.It is also suggested that the establishment of evaluation models or instruments for energy savings would be beneficial to design and application of high emissivity materials in various high-temperature environment.Furthermore,more efforts should be made on durability of high emissivity materials at high service temperatures and on the standardization of testing methods for emissivity.