Abstract
The heating of two-component droplets and the following explosive breakup of those droplets have been extensively studied over the most recent years. These processes are of high interest, since they can significantly improve the performance of many technologies in fuel ignition, thermal and flame liquid treatment, heat carriers based on flue gases, vapors and water droplets, etc. Research throughout the world involves various schemes of droplet heating and supply (or, less frequently, injection) to heating chambers. The most popular scheme features the introduction of a two-component or multi-component droplet onto a holder into the heating chamber. In this research, we study how holder materials affect the conditions and integral characteristics of droplet heating and explosive breakup: heating time until boiling temperature; minimum temperature sufficient for droplet breakup; number and size of fragments in the resulting droplet aerosol, etc. Experiments involve droplets that are produced from flammable (oil) and non-flammable (water) components with significantly different thermophysical and optical properties, as well as boiling temperature and heat of vaporization. The most popular elements with the scientific community, such as ceramic, steel, aluminum, copper, and phosphorus rods, as well as a nichrome wire, serve as holders. We establish the roles of energy inflow from a holder to a droplet, and energy outflow in the opposite direction. We compare the holder results with a supporting thermocouple, recording the drop temperature under a heat transfer provided at 350°C. Finally, we forecast the conditions that are required for a significant improvement in the performance of thermal and flame water treatment through the explosive breakup of two-component droplets.
Highlights
IntroductionTo improve the thermal treatment of sewage and service water (in particular, in the form of an atomized flow) and to develop new, more effective technologies for it, we need to explore the physics of droplets of water solutions, slurries, and emulsions traveling through high-temperature gases
To improve the thermal treatment of sewage and service water and to develop new, more effective technologies for it, we need to explore the physics of droplets of water solutions, slurries, and emulsions traveling through high-temperature gases
We present typical video frames showing the heating and disintegration of two-component droplets on holders made of different materials (Figure 3)
Summary
To improve the thermal treatment of sewage and service water (in particular, in the form of an atomized flow) and to develop new, more effective technologies for it, we need to explore the physics of droplets of water solutions, slurries, and emulsions traveling through high-temperature gases. Their temperature exceeds 500 ◦ C, and the most frequently used gases are hot air, fuel combustion products, and their mixtures. There is still no theory of interconnected heat and mass transfer and phase transformations for such conditions. No research findings on these processes have been published so far, because mathematical modeling becomes difficult for a large number of interfaces with highly nonlinear boundary conditions of rapid vaporization.
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