화학공학소재연구정보센터
International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer, Vol.42, No.16, 3113-3129, 1999
Heat transfer to liquid drops passing through an immiscible liquid medium between tilted parallel-plate electrodes
This paper describes an experimental examination of a novel scheme of enhancing heat (or mass) transfer in liquid-liquid dispersed systems: one liquid is released in the form of drops into a continuous medium of another immiscible, less electrically-conducting liquid which is confined by a pair of parallel-plate electrodes tilted from the vertical. Each drop is driven by a Coulombic force to bounce back and forth between the electrodes while falling down (or rising up) along the axis of tilt of the electrodes due to gravity, thereby following a zigzag trajectory. An increase in the strength of the electric field should enhance the instantaneous heat transfer to or from the drop, while an increase in the tilt angle of the electrodes should lengthen the drop-medium contact time. The heat transfer to single water drops passing through a silicone-oil medium between a pair of tilted parallel-plate electrodes has been studied by use of a thermochromic liquid-crystal thermometry technique.