A CONCEPTUAL MODEL OF INTEGRATING SENSOR NETWORK AND RADIATIVE HEAT TRANSFER EQUATION FOR ETHYLENE FURNACE.

A conceptual model of integrating the sensor network and the radiative heat transfer equation is developed and presented in this paper. The idea is to present possible deployment of sensor networks in the Ethylene furnace so that valuable input in the form of boundary value can be generated in order to produce intensity distribution and heat flux distribution. Once the location of sensor deployment has been recommended, the mesh at the physical space between the furnace wall and the reactor tube is constructed. The paper concentrates only at 2D model with only 1 U-bend reactor tube in the ethylene furnace as an initial phase of constructing a complete simulation in real furnace design. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]