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Effect of sparger on injection cooling performance of cryogenic liquids.

Number: poster. 0014

Author(s) : SAHA P., SANDILYA P.

Summary

Injection cooling is used for short term storage of cryogenic liquids by injection of a gas through the liquid. This causes liquid subcooling that reduces the boil off loss of liquid. Among various factors, sparger design (type, diameter of hole and number of holes) plays a significant role as it dictates the bubble dynamics in the liquid tank and thus the gas-liquid heat and mass transfer. This is the first work, to the best knowledge of the authors, on the sparger design in terms of the hole diameter and number of holes, on the cooling performance of such a system. Four types of sparger (single orifice, ring/spider, perforated plate and porous plate sparger) available commercially have been considered. A mathematical model of injection cooling based on lumped
parameter approach has been developed and simulation was carried out to determine the effect of sparger design. Liquid subcooling was obtained for all the four types of spargers. It was observed that the rate of cooling increases with the decrease in sparger hole diameter. However, the effect of number of holes on liquid subcooling was found to be negligibly small.

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  • Original title: Effect of sparger on injection cooling performance of cryogenic liquids.
  • Record ID : 30025800
  • Languages: English
  • Source: Cryogenics 2019. Proceedings of the 15th IIR International Conference: Prague, Czech Republic, April 8-11, 2019.
  • Publication date: 2019/05/08
  • DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.18462/iir.cryo.2019.0014

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