Abstract:
A method is proposed for identifying the heat source that arises in the skin layer of a hydrogen generation reactor filled with liquid metal during its induction heating. Thanks to the use of the proposed method, it is possible, with a known thickness of the skin layer, to find the power of the heat source arising in it, which ensures heating of methane to a given pyrolysis temperature and the time to reach a steady state. The method is based on the use of the heat balance equation and a locally nonequilibrium mathematical model, which makes it possible to take into account the relaxation properties of materials. As a result of multivariate numerical calculations, the power of the internal heat source required for the reactor working medium (liquid metal) to reach the pyrolysis temperature was determined. The developed program makes it possible to simulate the process of induction heating of metal in a hydrogen generation reactor. Acknowledgements The work was supported by the Ministry of Science and Higher Education of the Russian Federation (theme No. FSSE-2024-0014) as part of the state task of the Samara State Technical University.
