EVAPORATIVE COOLING OF BINARY DROPS
IN A LOW-PRESSURE FLOW REACTOR

Yu. A. Efimenko and S. P. Fisenko

UDC 66.046.3:536.43

A mathematical model of the evaporative cooling of binary 
drops in a flow reactor, accounting for the latent-heat liberation 
as a result of the phase transformation of the binary-drop components 
in the process of their condensation, the inverse processes of evaporation 
of these components, and the latent-heat liberation in the process 
of dissolution of one of the binary-drop components, has been developed. 
The numerical calculations were carried out for diluted ammonia spirits. 
It is shown that the evaporative cooling of binary drops in a flow 
reactor can be controlled by varying the compositions of the gas mixture 
and the solution and the ratio between their flow rates, and that 
the rate of cooling of drops can reach 2¼105 K/sec.

A. V. Luikov Heat and Mass Transfer Institute, National 
Academy of Sciences of Belarus, 15 P. Brovka Str., Minsk, 220072, 
Belarus; email: fsp@hmti.ac.by. Translated from Inzhenerno-Fizicheskii 
Zhurnal, Vol. 81, No. 2, pp. 243-249, March-April, 2008. Original 
article submitted May 17, 2007.