TY - JOUR
TI - Inverted vertical spout evaporators for open cycle ocean thermal energy conversion
AU - Ghiaasiaan, S
AU - Wassel, A
T2 - International Communications in Heat and Mass Transfer
AB - The hydrodynamics and heat and mass transfer performance of inverted vertical spout direct contact exchangers are studied in this paper. Simple models are proposed for the performance of the spout for shattered and unshattered sheet flows, the latter representing condensers or evaporators with small inlet superheat. A semi-empirical model is presented for the spout shattered flow. The models are shown to predict the available experimental data reasonably well. Estimates are provided for gas desorption from the seawater in the exchangers.
DA - 1983/12//
PY - 1983
PB - Elsevier
VL - 10
IS - 6
SP - 511
EP - 524
UR - https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/0735193383900581
DO - 10.1016/0735-1933(83)90058-1
LA - English
KW - OTEC
KW - Open-Cycle
KW - Lab Data
KW - Modeling
KW - Hydrodynamics
KW - Performance
ER -