Thermal modelling of infrared heater for plastic waste gasification

Author

Mbourou, SM Guyemat ; Adonis, ML

Author_Institution

Cape Peninsula Univ. of Technol., Cape Town, South Africa

fYear

2012

fDate

15-16 Aug. 2012

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

7

Abstract

The purpose of this paper is to present a theoretical investigation of infrared heater behaviour for plastic waste gasification. A mathematical model is developed for transient and steady state conditions and equations were solved using MATLAB and Simulink. The models provide a thermal simulation and optimize the design characteristics of a far-infrared (FIR) heater. The paper includes non-grey radiative heat transfer between different parts of FIR heater, as well as conduction and radiation on the reflector. The geometry has been simplified into a one dimensional problem.

Keywords

geometry; heat transfer; mathematical analysis; plastics industry; waste heat; FIR heater; MATLAB simulation; Simulink simulation; far-infrared heater behaviour; geometry; mathematical model; nongrey radiative heat transfer; plastic waste gasification; reflector conduction; reflector radiation; thermal modelling simulation; Equations; Finite impulse response filter; Heat transfer; Infrared heating; Mathematical model; Plastics; far-infrared heater; gasification; heating element; modelling;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Industrial and Commercial Use of Energy Conference (ICUE), 2012 Proceedings of the 9th

Conference_Location

Stellenbosch

ISSN

2166-0581

Print_ISBN

978-1-4673-1241-7

Type

conf

Filename

6330175