Flange is a major source of heat loss in the cryogenic pipeline. A method by generating a specified leakage flux in the gap of flange is proposed to reduce the heat loss of cryogenic plug-in flange
and is verified by a 3-D steady computational model. It is found that with the increasing leakage flux
the heat loss of flange and the outlet temperature of leakage fluid are decreased. For the flange with leakage gap between 0.8 mm and 1.2 mm
as the leakage flux gets less than 10
-5
kg/s
the increasing leakage flux leads to a drastic decrease of heat loss. While the leakage flux gets more than 10
-5
kg/s
the outlet temperature of leakage fluid is sharply dropped with the increasing leakage flux
and increasing flange length does not affect reducing of heat loss. The h
eat loss of cryogenic plug-in flange can be decreased by reasonably controlling leakage flux.
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