HEAT AND MASS TRANSFER IN IMPINGEMENT DRYING

ABSTRACT

In industrial drying applications, efficient transfer of heat and mass between a drying medium and the material being dried is very critical for the overall economics of the operation. Impinging jets are therefore widely used for their enhanced tmnsport characteristics, especially for drying of continuous sheets of materials such as paper and textiles. In such applications, a thin sheet of material, as wide as 6m in cross machine direction, speeds at velocities as high as 90 km/hr under high velocity jets emerging from a confining surface parallel to the material surface. Many variables and effects need to k considered for proper design of such impinging jet systems: nozzle geometry and size, nozzle configuration, location of exhaust pons, nozzle-to-surface separation, jet-to-jet separation, cross flow, jet exit velocity and surface motion. For permeable materials, additional enhancement of heat and mass transfer that occur when some of the impinging gas is removed through the material makes this option an atmctive one.

Here, we review the above effects and offer predictive correlations from literature which may be used in the design of high velocity impinging jet systems.     

A Numerical Study on the Convective Heat Transfer Characteristics of Pulsed Impingement Drying

Impinging jets issuing from the tailpipe of pulse combustors have been evaluated in recent studies for possible applications in rapid drying of continuous sheets such as grades of paper, textiles, etc. In order to further understand the effect of pulsed flows on the heat and mass transfer rates of impinging jets, a numerical study was performed on a two-dimensional pulsating impinging jet array. A computational fluid dynamics approach was used to examine the effect of periodic sinusoidal pulsation on the local Nusselt number distribution of the wet target surface being dried. Because a high temperature and large temperature difference between the jet flow and impingement surface are used to obtain high heat transfer rates in impingement drying, the thermophysical properties of jet flows were taken into account in the present mathematical model. A parametric study including phase angle and frequency as well as amplitude of pulsating flows was conducted for optimization and design of pulsating jet arrays. Examination of the velocity and thermal fields showed that the instantaneous heat transfer rate on the target surface was highly dependent on the mass transfer characteristic and development of the hydrodynamic boundary layer with time.     

IMPINGING JET DRYER

In coating and gravure printing, an impinging jet nozzle with high thermal efficiency for drying of coated film was developed.

Trial production 0f 40 kinds of nozzle enables to develop a high-performance impinging jet nozzle with heat transfer coefficient 1.5 times larger than that of current slit nozzle, through measurement of heat transfer coefficient, visualizations of air flow and heat transfer, and measuremenu of jet velocity and turbulence distribution. The purpose of the trial production was to expand a range of high heat transfer and promote turbulence compared with the current nozzle.

Paying attention to mass transfer within gravure ink coated film, drying characteristic of the film was analyzed by numerical solution of a set of equations governing the drying process in which concentration dependencies 0f the diffusion coefficient and the equilibrium vapor pressure were considered.

Applying these analyses. an industrial scale dryer with excellent drying efficiency has finally been developed.     

IMPINGING JET DRYER

ABSTRACT

In coating and gravure printing, an impinging jet nozzle with high thermal efficiency for drying of coated film was developed.

Trial production 0f 40 kinds of nozzle enables to develop a high-performance impinging jet nozzle with heat transfer coefficient 1.5 times larger than that of current slit nozzle, through measurement of heat transfer coefficient, visualizations of air flow and heat transfer, and measuremenu of jet velocity and turbulence distribution. The purpose of the trial production was to expand a range of high heat transfer and promote turbulence compared with the current nozzle.

Paying attention to mass transfer within gravure ink coated film, drying characteristic of the film was analyzed by numerical solution of a set of equations governing the drying process in which concentration dependencies 0f the diffusion coefficient and the equilibrium vapor pressure were considered.

Applying these analyses. an industrial scale dryer with excellent drying efficiency has finally been developed.     

Flow and Heat Transfer Characteristics of Confined Noncircular Turbulent Impinging Jets

A three dimensional computational fluid dynamic investigation is carried out to predict the turbulent flow and surface heat transfer under an impinging air jet issuing normally from a single noncircular orifice in a plate held parallel to the target surface. Static pressure distributions, velocity fields and local as well as average Nusselt number on the impinged surface are presented for square, elliptic, and rectangular orifices and compared with those for a circular orifice. Effects of jet Reynolds number as well as spacing between the nozzle plate and the impinged surface are examined using a two-layer κ-η turbulence model. Results show flow structure similarities between the characteristics of rectangular and elliptic jets of equal aspect ratio. Further, it is observed that noncircular impinging jets can provide higher average heat transfer rates than corresponding circular jets for certain geometric parameters viz. nozzle-to-plate spacing and the size of the averaging area used to compute the average Nusselt number.     

平面气固撞击流周期振荡的模拟分析

由于喷嘴截面的高宽比远小于1,平面狭缝喷嘴撞击流可看作二维撞击流。采用欧拉双流体模型对二维气固撞击流进行数值模拟。模拟结果表明,当固相负载率m≤8.2,颗粒粒径为60 μm≤d_p≤175 μm时,大间距的平面气固撞击流也出现了周期振荡。通过分析射流轴线上不同位置的压力和速度的瞬时值和平均值,认为周期振荡是由于撞击面上压力释放和持续射流的共同作用导致。讨论了不同条件对振荡周期的影响:振荡周期随喷嘴间距或颗粒粒径的增加而增加;而随射流Reynolds数的增加或者固相负载率的增加而减小。     

Enhancement of Heat and Mass Transfer with Innovative Impinging Jets

Impinging jets are widely used throughout various industries. The nozzle design used most frequently for jet impingement is the in-line jet. There have been many attempts at altering a jet's flow to increase its transport characteristics. The transport characteristics of two recently developed innovative and practical submerged impinging jets are described. Specifically, the heat and mass transfer characteristics of the Radial Jet Reattachment (RJR) nozzle and Self-Oscillating Jet Impinging Nozzle (SOJIN) are presented and cornoared lo the in-line iet nozzle. Both nozzles orovide high transport Coeficients. The RJR nozzle is for applications where'it is crucial to control the normal force on the imoinaement surface and those aoolications where space above the surface is to be minimized. The SOJIN offers an inexpensive modification to in-line nozzles in order to increase their transport properties. The SOJIN is exceptionally beneficial when standard in-line nozzles are required to work closer to the impingement surfaces than their optimal spacing.     

基于制备超细复合含能材料的对置受限式撞击流反应器微观混合性能

由于对置受限式撞击流反应器较高的传热及混合效率,能够制备出粒径小、均匀且分布范围窄的超细颗粒。本文采用碘化物-碘酸盐平行竞争反应体系研究入射速度、结构尺寸对对置受限式撞击流反应器微观混合效果的影响规律,并将混合腔尺寸同等比例放大一倍进行对比研究。结果表明,随着入射速度的增大,离集指数减小,微观混合效果提高。喷嘴间距与喷嘴直径比的增大使得离集指数增大,微观混合效果降低。离集指数随着混合腔高度、混合腔出口尺寸的增大呈现先增大后减小的趋势,且混合腔高度对混合效果的影响较混合腔出口尺寸显著。将对置受限式撞击流反应器混合腔尺寸扩大一倍,离集指数增加到原来的2.4倍,微观混合效果显著下降,但是在较大入射速度下,两种结构的混合效果差距减小。研究结果可为纳米复合含能材料的制备提供高效、安全的技术支持。     

Enhancement of Heat and Mass Transfer with Innovative Impinging Jets

ABSTRACT

Impinging jets are widely used throughout various industries. The nozzle design used most frequently for jet impingement is the in-line jet. There have been many attempts at altering a jet's flow to increase its transport characteristics. The transport characteristics of two recently developed innovative and practical submerged impinging jets are described. Specifically, the heat and mass transfer characteristics of the Radial Jet Reattachment (RJR) nozzle and Self-Oscillating Jet Impinging Nozzle (SOJIN) are presented and cornoared lo the in-line iet nozzle. Both nozzles orovide high transport Coeficients. The RJR nozzle is for applications where'it is crucial to control the normal force on the imoinaement surface and those aoolications where space above the surface is to be minimized. The SOJIN offers an inexpensive modification to in-line nozzles in order to increase their transport properties. The SOJIN is exceptionally beneficial when standard in-line nozzles are required to work closer to the impingement surfaces than their optimal spacing.     

DRYING CHARACTERISTICS OF SLOT JET REATTACHMENT NOZZLE AND COMPARISON WITH A SLOT JET NOZZLE

ABSTRACT

Slot Jet Reattachment (SJR) nozzle is an extension of the Radial Jet Reattachment (RJR) concept used to provide high heat and mass transfer while minimizing flow exerted forces on the reattachment surface. The SJR is a slot jet nozzle with a bottom plate attached to it, which is machined to direct impinging flow at different angles to the surface. The drying characteristics of the SJR nozzle with four exit angles on a paper sample were studied for three Reynolds numbers, three temperatures and two initial moisture contents. Dry air was used as the jet fluid. Correlations to predict drying rates and moisture content for the SJR nozzle as a function of exit angle, temperature, Reynolds number and drying time, for a given initial moisture content, were developed. A comparison of the drying characteristics and net forces of the slot jet and SJR nozzles was also performed under the same flow power and surface peak pressure.     

Flow and Heat Transfer Characteristics of Confined Noncircular Turbulent Impinging Jets

Abstract

A three dimensional computational fluid dynamic investigation is carried out to predict the turbulent flow and surface heat transfer under an impinging air jet issuing normally from a single noncircular orifice in a plate held parallel to the target surface. Static pressure distributions, velocity fields and local as well as average Nusselt number on the impinged surface are presented for square, elliptic, and rectangular orifices and compared with those for a circular orifice. Effects of jet Reynolds number as well as spacing between the nozzle plate and the impinged surface are examined using a two-layer κ–η turbulence model. Results show flow structure similarities between the characteristics of rectangular and elliptic jets of equal aspect ratio. Further, it is observed that noncircular impinging jets can provide higher average heat transfer rates than corresponding circular jets for certain geometric parameters viz. nozzle-to-plate spacing and the size of the averaging area used to compute the average Nusselt number.     

DRYING CHARACTERISTICS OF SLOT JET REATTACHMENT NOZZLE AND COMPARISON WITH A SLOT JET NOZZLE

Slot Jet Reattachment (SJR) nozzle is an extension of the Radial Jet Reattachment (RJR) concept used to provide high heat and mass transfer while minimizing flow exerted forces on the reattachment surface. The SJR is a slot jet nozzle with a bottom plate attached to it, which is machined to direct impinging flow at different angles to the surface. The drying characteristics of the SJR nozzle with four exit angles on a paper sample were studied for three Reynolds numbers, three temperatures and two initial moisture contents. Dry air was used as the jet fluid. Correlations to predict drying rates and moisture content for the SJR nozzle as a function of exit angle, temperature, Reynolds number and drying time, for a given initial moisture content, were developed. A comparison of the drying characteristics and net forces of the slot jet and SJR nozzles was also performed under the same flow power and surface peak pressure.     

IMPINGEMENT STREAM DRYERS FOR PARTICLES AND PASTES

This paper reports on the available experimental and analytical studies on a relatively novel flash drying configuration involving use of jets impinging against each other. The impingement zone provides ideal conditions for highly enhanced heat and mass transfer from particles or droplets to the gas stream. Repeated particle penetration into the opposite jet stream allows longer residence times in the impingement zone to accomplish desired drying. The collisions of the particles also permit breakage of lumps and better drying even for poly disperse materials. Advantages and limitations of this concept are discussed along with a discussion of some industrial applications     

IMPINGEMENT STREAM DRYERS FOR PARTICLES AND PASTES

This paper reports on the available experimental and analytical studies on a relatively novel flash drying configuration involving use of jets impinging against each other. The impingement zone provides ideal conditions for highly enhanced heat and mass transfer from particles or droplets to the gas stream. Repeated particle penetration into the opposite jet stream allows longer residence times in the impingement zone to accomplish desired drying. The collisions of the particles also permit breakage of lumps and better drying even for poly disperse materials. Advantages and limitations of this concept are discussed along with a discussion of some industrial applications     

圆形自由表面水射流冲击换热特性

对圆形自由表面水射流冲击换热特性进行了系统的实验研究,总结了喷距、射流出口速度以及相变等因素对换热的影响,并对其形成机理进行了分析,得到了驻点传热系数以及局部传热系数径向分布的关联式.     

EFFECT OF NEAR-WALL MODELLING ON PREDICTION OF IMPINGEMENT HEAT TRANSFER

Due to enhanced transport characteristics, impinging jets are widely used in industry to dry large surface area products such as paper and textiles. The present numerical study concerns the modelling of convective heat transfer for impingement drying. Flow and heat transfer under a confined two dimensional turbulent air jet impinging on a flat surface were modelled by solution of two-dimensional Navier-Stokes and energy equations. The turbulence model used was the high-Re number version of the well known two-equation (κ-ε) model and numerical solution was by the upwind finite difference scheme. The specific objective was to evaluate the accuracy of schemes for modelling the near-wall turbulent flow.

The mean flow properties such as centerline velocity decay and the pressure distribution at the impingement surface show no dependence on the near-wall model used. Heat transfer predictions were found to be quite sensitive to the choice of near-wall model. Best agreement between predictions and experiments was obtained for a Chieng-Launder type model with a new modification, use of k_p instead of k_v in the calculation of τ_w.     

Pulsating Jet Impingement Heat Transfer Enhancement

This article presents results from a numerical study of pulsating jet impingement heat transfer. The motivation is to seek conditions offering a significant enhancement compared to steady flow impingement drying. The CFD software package FLUENT was used for simulating slot-type pulsating jet impingement flows with confinement. The parameter study included velocity amplitude ratio, mean jet velocity, and pulsation frequency. The distance from nozzle exit to surface was three times the hydraulic diameter of the nozzle. The Reynolds number based on the nozzle hydraulic diameter and jet temperature was 2,460 with a mean jet velocity of 30 m/s, which is the base case of the numerical experiments. Results showed that time-averaged surface heat transfer increased with increasing velocity amplitude for the same mean jet velocity. Large velocity amplitudes helped enhance heat transfer by two mechanisms: high jet velocity during the positive cycle and strong recirculating flows during the negative cycle. For the cases with different mean jet velocities but the same maximum velocity, time-averaged surface heat flux decreased with decreasing mean jet velocity. As for the effects of pulsation frequency, with high-velocity amplitude ratio, time-averaged surface heat fluxes were at the same level regardless of frequency. However, at low-velocity amplitude ratio, high frequency caused stronger recirculating flows resulting in greater heat transfer compared to the cases with a lower frequency.     

Pulsating Jet Impingement Heat Transfer Enhancement

This article presents results from a numerical study of pulsating jet impingement heat transfer. The motivation is to seek conditions offering a significant enhancement compared to steady flow impingement drying. The CFD software package FLUENT was used for simulating slot-type pulsating jet impingement flows with confinement. The parameter study included velocity amplitude ratio, mean jet velocity, and pulsation frequency. The distance from nozzle exit to surface was three times the hydraulic diameter of the nozzle. The Reynolds number based on the nozzle hydraulic diameter and jet temperature was 2,460 with a mean jet velocity of 30 m/s, which is the base case of the numerical experiments. Results showed that time-averaged surface heat transfer increased with increasing velocity amplitude for the same mean jet velocity. Large velocity amplitudes helped enhance heat transfer by two mechanisms: high jet velocity during the positive cycle and strong recirculating flows during the negative cycle. For the cases with different mean jet velocities but the same maximum velocity, time-averaged surface heat flux decreased with decreasing mean jet velocity. As for the effects of pulsation frequency, with high-velocity amplitude ratio, time-averaged surface heat fluxes were at the same level regardless of frequency. However, at low-velocity amplitude ratio, high frequency caused stronger recirculating flows resulting in greater heat transfer compared to the cases with a lower frequency.     

Convective Heat Transfer Enhancement of a Rectangular Flat Plate by an Impinging Jet in Cross Flow

Experiments were carried out to study the heat transfer performance of an impinging jet in a cross flow. Several parameters including the jet-to-cross-flow mass ratio （X=2%-8%）, the Reynolds number （Red=1434-5735） and the jet diameter （d=2-4 mm） were explored. The heat transfer enhancement factor was found to increase with the jet-to-cross-flow mass ratio and the Reynolds number, but decrease with the jet diameter when other parameters maintain fixed. The presence of a cross flow was observed to degrade the heat transfer performance in respect to the effect of impinging jet to the target surface only. In addition, an impinging jet was confirmed to be capable of en-hancing the heat transfer process in considerable amplitude even though the jet was not designed to impinge on the target surface.     

强润湿性液体在圆形断面喷嘴浸没射流冲击下沸腾的热滞后

系统地研究了液体在圆形断面喷嘴浸没射流作用下沸腾热滞后与射流冲击速度大小、液体流动方向、液体过冷度和喷嘴直径等因素的影响 .结果表明 :沸腾起始过热度随液体过冷度增加而减小 ,与其他因素无关 ,而温度过头值则随射流速度和液体过冷度减小而增加 .从强润湿性液体沸腾机理的角度对起始沸腾点的影响给出了相应的解释 .最后总结出了几种减小或消除沸腾热滞后的方法