Simulation of heat stabilizer with a distributed refrigerant supply to the outer surface

Tyumen State University Herald. Physical and Mathematical Modeling. Oil, Gas, Energy


Release:

2024. Vol. 10. № 1 (37)

Title: 
Simulation of heat stabilizer with a distributed refrigerant supply to the outer surface


For citation: Gilmanov, A. Ya., Kim, A. S., & Shevelev, A. P. (2024). Simulation of heat stabilizer with a distributed refrigerant supply to the outer surface. Tyumen State University Herald. Physical and Mathematical Modeling. Oil, Gas, Energy, 10(1), 55–71. https://doi.org/10.21684/2411-7978-2024-10-1-55-71

About the authors:

Alexander Ya. Gilmanov, Cand. Sci. (Phys.-Math.), Senior Lecturer, Department of Modeling of Physical Processes and Systems, School of Natural Sciences, University of Tyumen, Tyumen, Russia; a.y.gilmanov@utmn.ru; ORCID: 0000-0002-7115-1629

Andrey S. Kim, Deputy Director, Alyans, Tyumen, Russia
3659696@mail.ru, https://orcid.org/0009-0008-3224-5463

Alexander P. Shevelev, Cand. Sci. (Phys.-Math.), Associate Professor, Professor, Department of Modeling of Physical Processes and Systems, School of Natural Sciences, University of Tyumen, Tyumen, Russia; a.p.shevelev@utmn.ru; ORCID: 0000-0003-0017-4871

Abstract:

To prevent the breaking of buildings in the cryolithozone due to thawing of permafrost soil due to thermal load from these objects, it is necessary to use heat stabilizers. Two-phase passive thermosyphons are widely used among them. To increase the efficiency of such device, a design of a heat stabilizer with a distributed refrigerant supply to the outer surface is proposed. Determining the optimal operating parameters of such device is impossible without a stage of modeling heat and mass transfer. This determines the purpose of the study — the calculation of the temperature distribution in the ground with such heat stabilizer. A calculation is carried out using physico-mathematical model of it with three related tasks: 1) description of the movement of liquid refrigerant through the inner tube of the thermosyphon; 2) calculation of the upward flow of refrigerant in the gap between the outer tube and the segments of the flow separator; 3) calculation of conductive heat transfer in the heat stabilizer-soil system. The modeling is based on the approaches of non-isothermal multiphase mechanics and thermophysics. The temperature profile was calculated in the gap between the flow-separating device consisting of four segments and the heat stabilizer pipe, as well as in the soil at 1 m from the surface of the thermosyphon. The proposed model makes it possible to determine the radial temperature distribution consistent with practical data with an accuracy of 90%. It was found that the use of such separating device can increase the efficiency of reducing soil temperature by 20%.

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