EHD-enhanced water evaporation from partially wetted glass beads with auxiliary heating from below

Drying Technology

Volumn 27, Issue 11, 2009, Pages 1199-1204

  Lai, F C ^a   Wang, C C ^a  

^a University of Oklahoma   (United States)

Author keywords

Auxiliary heating; Corona wind; Electrohydrodynamics (EHD); Evaporation

Indexed keywords

AMBIENT CONDITIONS; AMBIENT TEMPERATURES; AUXILIARY HEATING; BOTTOM SURFACES; COPPER WIRES; CORONA WIND; DIRECT CURRENT; DRYING RATES; EVAPORATION ENHANCEMENT; EXTERNAL SURFACES; GLASS BEAD; NEGATIVE POLARITY; WATER EVAPORATION; WEIGHT LOSS; WETTED MATERIALS;

DEWATERING; ELECTRIC CORONA; ELECTRIC FIELDS; ELECTROHYDRODYNAMICS; EVAPORATION; GLASS; GRANULAR MATERIALS; HEATING; VAPORS; WATER LEVELS; WETTING; WIRE;

EXPERIMENTS;

EID: 74849134201     PISSN: 07373937     EISSN: 15322300     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/07373930903263145     Document Type: Article

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