Although the effect of surrounding droplets on heat and mass transfer from a droplet is essentially important for the design of spray dryers, few experimental or theoretical studies have been made. To study this problem, heat and mass flux from a water droplet placed in the following three arrays were measured. They were then compared with those measured without surrounding glass beads. (1) A droplet was placed downstream at various distances from a glass bead along the flow (series type). (2) A droplet was placed at the center between two glass beads across the flow (parallel type). (3) A droplet was placed downstream of two glass beads (zig-zag type).
Mass flux was determined from the change of droplet diameter by using a photographic technique, and heat flux was considered to be equal to the amount of latent heat transfer.
Heat and mass transfer coefficient, namely
Nu and
Sh, obtained in the above three arrays were compared with
Nu0 and
Sh0 determined without the surrounding glass beads. As a result, the ratio of
Nu/
Nu0 in series type was found to be a function of
b/
dg and
dp/
dg, where b, d
g, and
dp are respectively the distance between surfaces of a droplet and glass bead, the diameter of a glass bead, and the diameter of water droplet. On the other hand, in parallel type, Nu and Sh were not affected by the presence of glass beads. In the zig-zag type, they were also not affected when the ratio of droplet diameter to distance between surfaces of two glass beads was smaller than 2. However, when this ratio exceeded 4, the value of
Nu/
Nu0 took a constant value of 0.57.
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