Research Progress of Falling Film Horizontal Tube Evaporator

Preliminary Experiences with a Falling - Film Evaporator Pilot Plant

The performance of a falling-film evaporator trial plant during the first year after installation at the CG Smith Sugar Illovo mill is described. Operating under conditions similar to those experienced in the mill's raw house first effectevaporator, the unit confirmed most of the reported characteristics of this type of plant and proved easy to operate. Problems experienced were associated most...

Dominant Flow Mechanisms in Falling-Film and Droplet Mode Evaporation Over Horizontal Rectangular Tube Banks

Flow visualization with high-speed video of evaporating water films falling over flat horizontal tubes, representative of the external surfaces of microchannel tubes, is presented. Experiments were conducted with 1.4 mm thick and 27 mm tall tubes over a film Reynolds number range of 23 < Re < 126. In addition to a qualitative description of the flow mechanisms, this work quantifies key droplet ...

Simulation of flat falling film evaporator system for concentration of black liquor

In the present investigation, a nonlinear mathematical model is developed for the analysis of Septuple effect flat falling film evaporator (SEFFFE) system used for concentrating weak black liquor in a nearby paper mill. This model is capable of simulating process of evaporation considering variations in boiling point rise (), overall heat transfer coefficient (U), heat loss from evaporator (Ql...

Heat Transfer, Mass Transfer and Scaling Characteristics in a Long Tube, Climbing Film, Pilot Plant Evaporator

ing characteristics could be investigated. Finally the pilot plant A single tube plant Kestner evaporator'was set up at was run under 1st effect conditions in order that a comparison Illovo to investigate heat transfer characteristics when could be made with industrial 1st effect evaporators (both simulating different evaporator Tests carried out have Roberts and Kestner). This particular trial...

Falling film evaporation on horizontal tubes with smooth and structured surfaces