Heat Transfer Study for Oil-in-Water Emulsion Jets Impinging onto hot Metal Surface

Abstract

– The purpose of this work is to analyse numerically as well as experimentally liquid jets impinging at different angles (30°, 60° and 90°) and different velocities (4.7 m/s, 7.0 m/s and 9.7 m/s) onto a hot circular plate made of Inconel 718. Liquids used in the experiments are water and oil-in-water emulsion with 8% concentration of the mineral oil Adrana AY 401 from Houghton Deutschland GmbH. An infrared camera is used to measure the black-coated rear face of the plate during the jet cooling process. The temperature field obtained is then used as input to estimate the heat transfer coefficient. The heat transfer coefficient is estimated by solving an Inverse Heat Transfer Problem (IHTP). In addition, the transient growth of the wetting area is also shown for both liquids. The heat transfer coefficient obtained from the experiments are utilised as input in numerical simulations with the Finite-Pointset-Method (FPM). Comparison between experiments and simulations is done to validate the recently implemented evaporation modelling in the MESHFREE software.