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INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF HEAT AND MASS TRANSFER
Volume 144, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijheatmasstransfer.2019.118552
Keywords
Desalination; Spray flash evaporation; Explosive boiling; Fragmentation time; Marangoni convection
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Funding
- National Natural Science Foundation of China, China [51106094]
- Natural Science Foundation of Shanghai [18040501800, 16ZR1414700]
- EPSRC [EP/S00193X/1] Funding Source: UKRI
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Spray flash evaporation is an effective desalination method, which increases specific surface area of salty water by liquid atomization, thereby improving desalination performance and maximising low-grade heat source utilization. During evaporation, explosive boiling phenomenon occurs inside superheated droplets on a heated surface. In order to understand the mechanism of explosive boiling, spray flash evaporation of distilled water and 3.5 wt% salty water in a high vacuum vessel was observed visually. Meanwhile, a parametric study was carried out to scrutinize the impacts of the variation of ambient pressure, heat flux, and surface superheat degree. The experiment data indicates that nucleate site is located in the upper layer of a droplet due to internal superheated liquid and Marangoni convection. In different operating conditions, bubble fragmentation process or crown fragmentation process happens at nucleate site. The fragmentation time of pure water, which is mainly influenced by heat flux and surface superheat degree, shrinks with higher heat flux and higher surface superheat degree. The fragmentation time of 3.5 wt% salty water decreases with ambient pressure drops and superheat degree increments. (C) 2019 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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