Evaporation rates of water droplets with soluble and insoluble additives

Abstract

The relevance. Caused by a wide practical use of water with typical soluble and insoluble additives in the following technologies. They are: thermal and fire purification of liquids, polydisperse fire extinguishing, combustion of waste-derived slurry fuels, cleaning of heat-loaded surfaces, creation of heat agents based on combustion products. Any change in liquid component composition leads to a change in its thermophysical properties, heating rates and phase transformations. So far, there is not enough experimental data on evaporation rates of water droplets with typical soluble and insoluble additives. The aim. Experimental determination of evaporation rate of water droplets with typical additives under various heating methods. The methods. To register sizes of moving droplets, optical registration methods based on a high-speed video camera were used. To register the temperature of combustion products, a measuring complex, consisting of an NI 9219 board and four chromel-alumel fast-response thermocouples, was used. The authors used four methods of droplet heating: in the flow of combustion products with the dominance of convective heat transfer, in a tubular muffle furnace with the dominance of radiative heat transfer, on a solid surface with the dominance of conductive heat transfer, and in a flame with the dominance of mixed (convective and radiative) heat transfer. The results. The authors have determined the ranges of change in evaporation rates of water droplets with typical (soluble and insoluble) additives for various heating methods with the dominance of convective, radiative, and conductive heat transfer. The effect of an additive type and concentration, heating method and heating medium temperature on of droplet evaporation characteristics was established.