Transferência de calor com mudança de fase em processos de borbulhamento

Abstract

Heat transfer fenomena with phase change is analyed in a bubbling process, where heated gas hubbies pass through a liquid. The experimental evaporation rate is measured with an equipment which operates with gas feed temperatures in the range of 70 to 285°C, A diffusive transient model is presented in which the simultaneous transfer effects and surface bubble superheating are taken into account to calculate heat and mass transfer coefficients and flow rates. The modeling equations are presented in the explicit form thus permitting the direct calculations of heat and mass transfer rates during the evaporation of a liquid and the testing the predicted values with experimental results. A comparison between the simultaneous and the superheating models showed that at higher gas temperatures and higher residence times , both modeIs reproduce satisfactorily the operational conditions. in order to verify the equipment performance to obtain the bubbling time needed for the attainment of steady state, the liquid equilibrium temperature was theoretically calculated taking into a account the simultaneous and the superheating effects, being these results compared with the experimental values.