TY - JOUR T1 - Effect of the Addition of a Fin on the Thermal Behavior of the Shell of a Rotary Cement Kiln AU - Bouhafs, Mohammed AU - Meghdır, Abed PY - 2022 DA - December DO - 10.55549/epstem.1226660 JF - The Eurasia Proceedings of Science Technology Engineering and Mathematics JO - EPSTEM PB - ISRES Publishing WT - DergiPark SN - 2602-3199 SP - 371 EP - 379 VL - 21 LA - en AB - This work consists of a numerical study of a thermally stressed rotary kiln shell part in a cementplant. The numerical simulations are performed by using the finite volume method for the discretization and thesimple algorithm for resolution. The velocity air injection and its temperature are the main parameters underinvestigation. In the second step of this study, fins are inserted on the shell to examine their effecton cooling. The results analysis shows that the insertion of fins to the shell has a significant influence on thedecrease in temperature of the shell’s external surface. The study shows that this decrease intemperature depends significantly on the air injection rate, not on its temperature. To avoid overloading ourequipment, only four fins distributed around the kiln are added to explore their effect. The results obtained givea reduction of 35% in the temperature distribution for the case of a shell with fin compared to that without fin.What makes the proposal interesting and thus lead to the preservation of shell of our rotary kiln. KW - Rotary kiln KW - Shell KW - Natural convection KW - Nusselt number KW - Finite volumes. UR - https://doi.org/10.55549/epstem.1226660 L1 - https://dergipark.org.tr/en/download/article-file/2862363 ER -