Simplification of simulation processes at gravity heat pipes

Department of Energy Technology, Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, University of Zilina, Slovakia

^a Corresponding author: peter.hrabovsky@fstroj.uniza.sk

Published online: 23 March 2016

Abstract

Water heating by heat pipe is currently the object examined on the use in sphere of recovering heat from technological processes. The heat pipe is the device for water heating that provides us a very effective way of transferring heat from the heat source (combustion) to the place of consumption (water). For the draft proposal of such equipment is produced under the required conditions mathematical model of ANSYS that verifies the actual measurements the experiments. The paper deals with the possibility of simulations of heat pipes in the process of heat transport and apposite simplification of the simulation process by defining apposite the substitutes of the solid materials with its own thermal properties that ensure a similar heat transport as a heat transfer medium in the heat pipe.