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Utilization opportunities of perlite have made the product adaptable to numerous applications in the construction, industrial, chemical, horticultural and petrochemical industries. Applications of the perlite include filler, high and low temperature insulation, concrete aggregate, textured coatings, absorbent and carrier etc. Thus, perlite seems to be a very important material. In this paper, thermodynamics analysis of a perlite expansion furnace was performed. Both energy and exergy relations were derived for the considered system. Some parameters, such as losses, irreversibility and design etc., were used for determining the energy and exergy efficiencies. Based on the results of the analysis of the system, the energy and exergy efficiencies are calculated to be 66 and 26 %, respectively. Some recommendations were also made towards increasing the efficiency in the Turkish perlite industry.
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Authors thank Fırat University Project Support Unit with the project number TEKF.13.01 and Aralçi Company in Elazig, Turkey for their valuable contribution to this work.
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- A:
-
Area (m2)
- C p :
-
Specific heat (kJ/kg K)
- \( \dot{E}x \) :
-
Exergy rate (kW)
- e:
-
Specific energy (kJ/kg)
- \( \dot{E} \) :
-
Energy rate (kW)
- g:
-
Gravity (m/s2)
- Gr:
-
Grashof number
- h:
-
Specific enthalpy (kJ/kmol, kJ/kg)
- H:
-
Heat convection coefficient (W/m2 K)
- k:
-
Thermal conductivity (W/m K)
- LCV:
-
Low calorific value (kJ/kg)
- L:
-
Length (m)
- M:
-
Molar mass (kg/kmol)
- \( \dot{m} \) :
-
Mass flow rate (kg/s)
- Nu:
-
Nusselt number
- Pr:
-
Prandtl number
- \( \dot{Q} \) :
-
Heat flow rate (kW)
- Ra:
-
Rayleigh number
- \( \overline{R} \) :
-
Universal gas constant (kJ/kmol K)
- s:
-
Specific entropy (kJ/kg K)
- V:
-
Velocity (m/s)
- \( \dot{W} \) :
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Work rate (kW)
- x:
-
Mole fraction
- σ :
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Stefan–Boltzmann (W/m2 K4)
- ε :
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Thermal diffusion
- λ :
-
Air–fuel ratio
- β :
-
Thermal expansion coefficient (1/K)
- υ :
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Kinematic viscosity (m2/s)
- φ :
-
Ratio for industrial fuels
- η :
-
Energy efficiency
- η ex :
-
Exergy efficiency
- a:
-
Air
- cv:
-
Control volume
- c:
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Convection
- D:
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Destruction
- e:
-
Exit
- e.per:
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Expanded perlite
- f:
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Fuel
- i:
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Inlet
- k:
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k-th product
- l:
-
Loss
- NG:
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Natural gas
- per:
-
Perlite
- p:
-
Combustion products
- r:
-
Radiation
- s:
-
Surface
- ∞ :
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Environment
- ph:
-
Physical
- ch:
-
Chemical
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Gürtürk, M., Oztop, H.F., Hepbaslı, A. (2014). Energy and Exergy Analysis of a Perlite Expansion Furnace. In: Dincer, I., Midilli, A., Kucuk, H. (eds) Progress in Exergy, Energy, and the Environment. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-04681-5_28
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