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INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF HEAT AND MASS TRANSFER
Volume 184, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijheatmasstransfer.2021.122275
Keywords
Nanofluid droplet; Evaporation; Phase rainbow refractometry; Droplet interaction
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- National Natural Science Foundation of China [52006193]
- Zhejiang Provincial Natural Science Foundation of China [LQ19E060010]
- National Science and Tech-nology Major Project [2017-V-0016-0069]
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This study investigates the evaporation characteristics of a monodisperse droplet stream of pure ethanol containing aluminum nanoparticles. The results show that droplet evaporation still follows the classical D-2 law under the experimental conditions, and the addition of aluminum nanoparticles gradually decreases the evaporation rate.
Evaporation behavior of nanofluid droplets within a fuel cloud plays an important role in most appli-cations. Reported here is an experimental study on the evaporation characteristics of a monodisperse droplet stream of pure ethanol containing aluminum nanoparticles with varying concentrations (up to 0.3 wt.%) at different environmental temperatures (296-743 K). The recently developed phase rainbow refractometry (PRR) is used to simultaneously measure droplet temperature, size, and size variation of nanoscale. The results show that droplet evaporation under the experimental conditions still follows the classical D-2-law. Furthermore, the addition of aluminum nanoparticles gradually decreases the evapora-tion rate. And a 16.2% reduction in the evaporation rate constant is observed when n-Al concentration increases to 0.3 wt.%. The effect of interactions between droplets on evaporation is quantified by com-bining with isolated droplet evaporation constant predicted by the theoretical model. And the quantified interaction effect is compared with the proposed empirical correlation, indicating that the interaction effect on the evaporation is similar for the studied range of n-Al concentration. (c) 2021 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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