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CORESTA Meeting, Smoke Science/Product Technology, Aix-en-Provence, 2009, SSPT 13

Research on measuring thermal properties of cut tobacco by transient plane thermal source method

HAN Ying; YAN Yaming; LIU Chaoxian; LI Bin; MOU Dingrong
Zhengzhou Tobacco Research Institute of CNTC, Zhengzhou, Henan, China

The thermal properties of bulk cut tobacco, such as thermal conductivity, thermal diffusivity, volume specific heat, are essential to the analysis of heat and mass transfer in various tobacco processing conditions. Based on transient plane thermal source technique, an experimental equipment was set up. Working parameters of the equipment were calculated. Thermal conductivity, thermal diffusivity, and volume specific heat of cut tobacco were measured simultaneously at different moisture contents and bulk densities. Moreover, the repeatability of the experimental data was investigated with this method at different measuring levels. The results were as follows: (1) The experimental data showed good repeatability. (2) the precision ranges of thermal conductivity, thermal diffusivity, and volume specific heat were 0.00012 W·m-1oK-1 - 0.00471W·m-1·K-1, 0.00371 mm2·s-1 - 0.02598 mm2·s-1, and 0.00921MJ·m-3·K-1 - 0.06537MJ·m-3·K-1, respectively. (3) thermal conductivity, and volume specific heat increased with the increase of moisture content and bulk density, while thermal diffusivity decreased with the increase of moisture content and bulk density.