ON THE THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY OF A BLOWN GRANULAR BED

V. I. Kovenskii and Yu. S. Teplitskii

UDC 532.5

Dependences for calculation of the effective thermal-conductivity 
coefficients of a granular bed and its constituent phases have been 
obtained by analogy with the processes of convective heat and mass 
transfer. The dependences involve simple and quite reliable formulas 
for calculation of the conductive thermal conductivity of an unblown 
bed and the radiative thermal conductivity of the skeleton of solid 
particles.

A. V. Luikov Heat and Mass Transfer Institute, National 
Academy of Sciences of Belarus, 15 P. Brovka Str., Minsk, 220072, 
Belarus; email: kvi@hmti.ac.by. Translated from Inzhenerno-Fizicheskii 
Zhurnal, Vol. 81, No. 5, pp. 956-962, September-October, 2008. 
Original article submitted April 27, 2007.