Computational Fluid Dynamics Modelling and Experimental Study on a Single Silica Gel Type B

Table 1

Thermophysical properties of this silica gel. A porous material had to be defined for the adsorbent used in the simulation. This data was taken from the experiment Type B data was created with a density of 730 kg/m³, for type B and a density of 1000 kg/m³ and a heat capacity of 0.921 (KJ/kg K) and a thermal conductivity of 0.174 (W/m K) (see Table 1).

	Type B
Specific surface area (m^2/g)	450
Porous volume (mL/g)	0.85
Average pore diameter (A)	22
Apparent density (kg/m^3)	730
pH value	5.0
Water content (wt.%)	<2.0
Specific heat capacity (kJ/kg K)	0.921
Thermal conductivity (W/m K)	0.174
Mesh size	10–40