Development of a mobile power plant for thawing frozen soils

Abstract

The article proposes a new device for radiation-convective heating of working fluids, which can be used in particular for emergency and repair and construction works for heating of frozen soil, concrete, road surface and other building materials. The studies were carried out as part of implementation of the Innovation Assistance Fund for Energy Sector Enterprises.

Study of processes of artificial freezing and thawing of soils when developing a model of energy-efficient radiation-convection setup

“…As in [7], chromel-alumel junctions of thermocouples connected to an analogue-to-digital converter were used as temperature sensors during the experiment. The RS 232 cable was used to connect the analogue-to-digital converter with PC, which was used to display the freezing-thawing processes in real time (Figure 1, d).…”

“…The development of an effective and uninterrupted power supply system for low outdoor temperatures was previously considered in [7]. This article is focused on the solution to the problem of eliminating accidents in case of failure of a particular section of engineering communications.…”

Modelling a solid fuel unit for soil warming up before its exploitation

“…A lot of research works on thermo-physical properties of frozen soils during thawing and compaction were conducted within about a hundred-year period. Issues of increasing the efficiency of uninterrupted heat supply sources at low temperatures, and, in particular, fossil fuel combustion processes, are relevant and were previously studied in [1][2][3][4][5][6]. The use of various fuels and intensification of fuel combustion processes in power plants, the creation of conditions for the complete combustion of fuel-air mixture due to optimal geometric arrangement of the furnace space, etc.…”