“…Under such conditions, the effective thermal conductivity is primarily dependent on the thermal conductivities of the solid particle k,, the stagnant gas k,, and the bed properties. Several models have been published to determine the effective thermal conductivities of a packed bed of particles (Argo and Smith, 1953;Yagi et al, 1957;Beveridge and Haughey, 1971). In this study, the heat-conduction model of Deissler and Boegli (Beveridge and Haughey, 1971), which calculates the effective thermal conductivity of packed beds under low pressure yas used: where and where eA,, eA2, and eA3 are the area factors and n, is the number of contact points.…”