Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11851/1550
Title: Experimental Study of Direct Contact Condensation of Steam on Water Droplets
Authors: Gümrük, Semra
Aktaş, Murat Kadri
Keywords: Direct contact condensation
droplet
dehumidification
water spray
Publisher: Int Assoc Engineers-Iaeng
Source: Gumruk, S., & Aktas, M. K. (2015). Experimental Study of Direct Contact Condensation of Steam on Water Droplets. In The World Congress on Engineering 2015.
Abstract: Air or water cooled condensers are used to reduce the moisture content of the air in some devices. Because of disadvantages of these systems such as long drying time, high energy and water consumption, it is required to find a new system for dehumidifying air. This paper represents an experimental study of drying air by injecting water spray into hot and humid air. Spray water is injected into the moist air, in the meantime interaction of subcooled water droplets with air direct contact condensation occurs. As a result of this phenomenon steam condenses on the surface of the droplets due to temperature of water droplets less than the dew point of air. As a consequence of condensation latent heat is released and it increases the water temperature. Experiments were carried out to investigate the effect of different parameters on the dehumidification process i.e., spray droplet diameter, spray water flow rate and spray nozzle configuration (parallel counter). In this investigation maximum dehumidification performance was obtained when air is supplied with higher relative humidity. It was observed that for a given spray configuration, increasing flow rate of water spray leads to higher reduction in humidity ratio of moist air. The effect of spray configuration was also analyzed and maximum decrease in humidity ratio was observed in counter-flow arrangement.
URI: https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11851/1550
ISBN: 978-988-14047-0-1
ISSN: 2078-0958
Appears in Collections:Makine Mühendisliği Bölümü / Department of Mechanical Engineering
Scopus İndeksli Yayınlar Koleksiyonu / Scopus Indexed Publications Collection
WoS İndeksli Yayınlar Koleksiyonu / WoS Indexed Publications Collection

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