Fundamental Study on Enhancement of Liquid-Liquid Direct Contact Heat Transfer of Descending Water Insoluble High Density Liquid Droplets in a Heat Source Water Layer by Using Wire Mesh as Dispersion Material

Abstract

This paper has dealt with liquid-liquid direct contact heat transfer characteristics by means of water insoluble heat transfer medium. In the present study, Perfluorocarbon(PFC, density of 1830kg/m³)was injected from above into a hot water layer, which was mounted by stainless steel wire net in order to make PFC droplets finer. The measuring result of the drop let diameter revealed that the droplet size distribution exerted an influence on the temperature effectiveness between PFC droplets and the hot water layer. It was observed that PFC droplets were dispersed by collision with stainless steel wire nets during falling in the hot water layer. Finally correlations equations of the temperature effectiveness and average diameter of PFC droplets had been derived as a function of some parameters.