水平気流中に置かれたワイヤメッシュデミスタの分離特性

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In this paper, separation of water droplets from air including water droplets by wire-mesh demisters is investigated through experiments.
Wire-mesh demisters used here are constructed by galvanized iron wires which are held perpendicular to the air flow direction and which have one layer. Moreover, the demisters have three different specific surface area, 11.06, 14.43 and 39.78 cm² /cm³ respectively. For all of the demisters mentioned above, mean air velocity is varied over the range of 1.0 to 6.0 m/s, with the size of water droplets being varied over the range of 5 to about 200μm.
The values of separation efficiencies of these demisters are larger by those predicted by theoretical analysis which has been presented by A. Bürkholz, et al. or C. Carpenter, et al.
Characteristics of size distribution of water droplets at the inlet and the outlet to the demister, and furthermore resistance coefficients of these demisters are also investigated.