Enhancement of Heat and Mass Transfer with Innovative Impinging Jets

ABSTRACT

Impinging jets are widely used throughout various industries. The nozzle design used most frequently for jet impingement is the in-line jet. There have been many attempts at altering a jet's flow to increase its transport characteristics. The transport characteristics of two recently developed innovative and practical submerged impinging jets are described. Specifically, the heat and mass transfer characteristics of the Radial Jet Reattachment (RJR) nozzle and Self-Oscillating Jet Impinging Nozzle (SOJIN) are presented and cornoared lo the in-line iet nozzle. Both nozzles orovide high transport Coeficients. The RJR nozzle is for applications where'it is crucial to control the normal force on the imoinaement surface and those aoolications where space above the surface is to be minimized. The SOJIN offers an inexpensive modification to in-line nozzles in order to increase their transport properties. The SOJIN is exceptionally beneficial when standard in-line nozzles are required to work closer to the impingement surfaces than their optimal spacing.

Keywords:

• air drying
• cooling
• heating
• impinging jets
• oscillating jets:
• radial jets