Chemical Engineering Communications, Vol.185, 79-90, 2001
Flow boiling heat transfer in a new vapor-liquid-solid three-phase circulating fluidized bed evaporator
In order to enhance heat transfer and solve the fouling problems in boiling processes, a boiling system was designed by adding solid particles to the boiling liquid. In this paper, both theoretical analyses and experimental studies on the flow boiling heat transfer in a vapor-liquid-solid three-phase circulating fluidized bed evaporator were carried out. Based on the analysis of the heat transfer characters of this three-phase flow boiling, a mathematical model for predicting the flow boiling heat transfer coefficients of the vapor-liquid-solid three-phase circulating fluidized bed evaporator was developed. The experiments show that, in the presence of solid particles the how boiling heat transfer is enhanced and is about 2 times that of the vapor-liquid two-phase one. The predicted results of the flow boiling heat transfer coefficients agreed well with the experimental data.
Keywords:flow boiling heat transfer;fluidized solid particles;three-phase circulating fluidized bed;evaporator