The D2-Law of Droplet Evaporation When Calculating the Droplet Evaporation Process of Liquid Containing Solid State Catalyst Particles

The review presents the D2-law of droplet evaporation, which is used to describe the spraying process involving the evaporation of droplets. This law, the subject of numerous publications, can be successfully applied to describe the droplet evaporation process under various conditions, including the...

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Published in:Energies (Basel) 2022-10, Vol.15 (20), p.7642
Main Authors: Ochowiak, Marek, Bielecki, Zdzisław, Bielecki, Michał, Włodarczak, Sylwia, Krupińska, Andżelika, Matuszak, Magdalena, Choiński, Dariusz, Lewtak, Robert, Pavlenko, Ivan
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Alcohol
Approximation
Boilers
catalyst
Catalysts
combustion
D2-law of droplet evaporation
droplet evaporation
Droplets
dust duct
Evaporation
Heat transfer
Hydrocarbons
Ordinary differential equations
Spraying
Velocity
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Summary:The review presents the D2-law of droplet evaporation, which is used to describe the spraying process involving the evaporation of droplets. This law, the subject of numerous publications, can be successfully applied to describe the droplet evaporation process under various conditions, including the calculations of the process of feeding the boiler with a liquid that contains catalyst particles. To date, not a lot of work has been devoted to this issue. The paper is a continuation of previous research concerning the spraying of liquids with a catalyst, which improves the efficiency of the process. The conducted analysis showed that the experimental data from previously published work are very compatible with the data obtained from the D2-law of droplet evaporation. At the standard speed of about 20 m/s of an aerosol flowing through a dust duct, droplets in the stream should be observed up to a distance of 1 m from the outlet of the apparatus supplying the system. Under such flow conditions, a droplet’s lifetime must be above 0.05 s. The dependence between a droplet’s lifetime and its diameter and temperature was determined. The obtained results confirmed that the effective droplet diameter is above 30 µm. Such droplets must be generated and then fed to the boiler for the catalyst to work properly. This law is an engineering approach to the problem, which uses relatively simple model equations in order to determine the evaporation time of a droplet.
ISSN:1996-1073
1996-1073
DOI:10.3390/en15207642