scholarly journals Development of Falling Film Heat Transfer Coefficient for Industrial Chemical Processes Evaporator Design

Author(s):  
Muhammad Wakil Shahzad ◽  
Muhammad Burhan ◽  
Kim Choon Ng
Author(s):  
Lei Wang ◽  
Weiyu Tang ◽  
Limin Zhao ◽  
Wei Li

Abstract An experimental investigation was conducted on falling film evaporation along two porous tubes, which were sintered by stainless-steel powder with a diameter of 0.45 and 1 um, respectively. The test section is a 2 m long sintered tube with an outer diameter of 25 mm and a wall thickness of 2 mm. During the experiment, the pressure inside the tube was maintained at 1 atm, the inlet temperature was 373 K, and mass flux ranged from 0.51 to 1.36 kg/ (m s). Conditions of the steam outside the pipe, which was the heat source, were fixed, while the fouling tests were carried out at a constant mass flow of 0.74 kg/ (m s) using high-concentration brine as work fluid. The overall heat transfer coefficient under different working conditions was tested and compared with the stainless steel smooth tube of the same dimensions. The heat transfer coefficient of the two porous stainless tubes are about 35% and 20% lower than that of the smooth one, showing an inferior effect because the steam in the pores of the pipe wall during the infiltration process will reduce the heat conductivity. The heat transfer coefficient of the smooth tube deteriorated severely due to the deposition of calcium carbonate, which had little effect on the sintered tubes. Besides, the fouling weight of porous tubes is 2.01 g and 0 g compared with 5.52 g of the smooth tube.


2000 ◽  
Vol 122 (4) ◽  
pp. 741-748 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. Darabi ◽  
M. M. Ohadi ◽  
S. V. Desiatoun

The effect of an electric field on the falling-film evaporation of refrigerant R-134a on a vertical plate and three commercially available tubes was investigated experimentally. The plate test section was 25.4 mm wide and 76.2 mm long, and each tube test section was 19 mm in diameter and 140 mm long. Experiments were conducted in both falling film and spray evaporation modes. The effects of various parameters such as heat flux, refrigerant flow rate, electrode gap, and applied voltage were investigated. It was found that in the presence of an applied electric field, the maximum enhancement in the heat transfer coefficient for both falling film and spray evaporation modes on a plate was nearly the same. A maximum enhancement of fourfold in the heat transfer coefficient with the plate, 90 percent with the smooth tube, 110 percent with the Turbo BIII, and 30 percent with 19 fpi tube were obtained. The electrohydrodynamic power consumption in all cases was less than 0.12 percent of the total energy exchange rate in the test section. [S0022-1481(00)03003-6]


1997 ◽  
Vol 64 (1) ◽  
pp. 57-67 ◽  
Author(s):  
R. SELWYN JEBSON ◽  
HONG CHEN

The performances of falling film evaporators used in the New Zealand dairy industry for concentrating whole milk were evaluated by determining kg steam used/kg water evaporated, and the heat transfer coefficient of each pass in the evaporators. A specially written computer program was used to calculate the results. The heat transfer coefficients varied from 0·3 to 3·0 kW/m2K, and the steam consumption from 0·10 to 0·39 kg steam/kg evaporation, depending on the number of effects. The steam consumptions for whole and skim milk were similar. The momentum of the vapours passing down the tubes, the temperature difference across the tubes, the viscosity of the feed and the liquid loading were found to be the main factors controlling the heat transfer coefficient. A correlation between the heat transfer coefficient and these factors is presented, and other factors likely to have an influence on the performance are discussed. The correlation is compared with that obtained for skim milk.


2012 ◽  
Vol 204-208 ◽  
pp. 4305-4314
Author(s):  
Jing Jing Zhang ◽  
Dan Dan Zhao ◽  
Lu Chun Wan ◽  
Bao Huai Zhang ◽  
Ya Ping Chen

A mathematical model of heat and mass transfer process in plate falling film absorber with wire-meshed fins was developed. The model could predict temperature and concentration distribution as well as the solution side heat transfer coefficient and the absorption rate. The results verify that heat and mass transfer performance of the plate falling film absorber with wire-meshed fins is better than the past absorber. Compared with the plate falling film absorber without fins, heat transfer coefficient of the absorber in this article increases 1.06 times and the absorption rate increases 2.32 times.


2017 ◽  
Vol 21 (3) ◽  
pp. 1251-1259 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chao Luo ◽  
Jun Zhao ◽  
Weibin Ma

A heat transfer experimental of vertical out-tube falling film was conducted with different inlet spray density of ammonia-water solution and inlet hot water temperature. The inlet liquid mass concentration was selected as 60% of ammonia. The experiments showed that the overall heat transfer coefficient increases with the increase of inlet spray density and a maximum overall heat transfer coefficient could be obtained in an optimum spray density of ammonia-water solution, ?, between 0.26 and 0.29 kg/ms. The generation of ammonia vapor outside the vertical falling film had a similar trend with the overall heat transfer coefficient basing on different spray density. The effect of hot water temperature difference, ?T, on overall heat transfer coefficient showed that ?T between 10 and 13 K is the optimum temperature difference of the vertical falling film generation


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