Spherical-shaped ice particle production by spraying water in a vacuum chamber

✍ Scribed by H.T. Shin; Y.P. Lee; J. Jurng

• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 2000
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 489 KB
• Volume: 20
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 1359-4311
• DOI: 10.1016/s1359-4311(99)00035-6

✦ Synopsis

A theoretical and experimental study was performed to examine the water spray evaporation method for ice particle production. The conditions for the formation of ice particles were investigated theoretically by the diusion-controlled evaporation model. The prediction by the model was proved to agree relatively well with experiments. The production of cold storage heat will increase almost proportionally to the number of spray nozzles because no substantial dierence was found in the mean droplet size of the overlapped sprays from twin nozzles. Finally, based on the results, the vacuum chamber was designed, and spherical ice particles of size below 300 mm were experimentally obtained by spraying water droplets of ambient temperature in the vacuum chamber where pressure is maintained below the freezing point of water. From the experiment for producing ice particles, it was found that the spray ¯ow rate in¯uences the performance of the system more than the position of spray nozzle.